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Galeon 1.0 Released

Posted by michael on from the faster-than-a-speeding-opera dept.

exceed writes: "Finally, after about a year, version one of Galeon -- the GTK+ web browser based on Mozilla's rendering engine, gecko -- has been released. If you plan on installing this for the first time, you might want to read the 'INSTALL' files included within the package for requirements. Head on over to the project's file list at Sourceforge."

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  1. Why? by burtonator · · Score: 5, Interesting

    OK.

    I am seriously not trying to troll.

    When Galeon first came out I really liked it because it gave us the rendering quality of gecko without the weight of Mozilla.

    Then Mozilla started to improve and I haven't looked back. XUL isn't that bad when compared to GTK and the programming model is nice.

    Are there any other major reasons for using Galeon that I am missing?

    It isn't much faster anymore.

    There are some nice feature (and competition keeps everyone on their toes). I do like the ability to have with the browser toolbar.

    Mozilla also needs better bookmarklet integration.

    It would be nice if I could hack the Mozilla XUL framework easier (like I can hack Emacs lisp).

    ... I am sure the Galeon team really believes in the project or they wouldn't have put in all this effort. :)

    Kevin

  2. Some of the changes.... by Anthony+Boyd · · Score: 5, Interesting

    At least at this point, there is no list of what's new on their Web site. If you download the file, you can check out the changelog. Here are some changes for 1.0 and previous release (which is where most of the interesting stuff happened):

    • disable gfs for 1.0
    • toggle the history dock on history menu activation. bug #65151.
    • support for spinners in ~/.galeon/spinners
    • additional check for NULL returned from gconf on /apps/galeon/gconf_test to __TIME__ comparison.
    • Added pt.
    • remove the fixed width of the persistent data manager dialog. bug #64413.
    • use a build identifier = __TIME__ in /apps/galeon/gconf_test to test if we are not running a new build/version. If so set the mozilla prefs explicitly.
    • Including "xpinstall.enabled" = FALSE and "network.http.accept-encoding" = "gzip, deflate, compress;q=0.9"
    • do not load mozilla prefs explicitly. Mozilla does it. This was causing the autoproxy bug
    • Fixed bug where window positions were not being saved correctly in sessions.

    Also, they added a few new themes (Azundris & Glass66 & Glass75) and some new spinners (I believe Netscape used to call these "throbbers").

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  3. At least two erasons by VFVTHUNTER · · Score: 5, Interesting

    1. You, one click from the menubar, can turn Java and Javascript off. You simply uncheck them (directly from the menubar, not some cheesy pop up window). This is quite nice.

    2. Been using Galeon for about three months now. Interestingly, haven't seen a single pop up (eg X10) in about three months now. And new windows can be set to open not in another window, but in a new tab.

    3. Its bookmarking abilities quite frankly kick ass. Especially the XML-based myportal. You have to use it to see how awesome it is. The "smart" toolbars feature is also equally cool.

    4. In the preferences menu, it allows you to choose what mouse buttons/key combo's you want to do things with.

    5. Gtk is prettier than Qt...no offense KDE folks, it just is, IMVHO.

    6. Its a cool enough project that A) they jumped from 0.12.8 to 1.0 and B)the KDE-propagandist website, "Slashdot," actually saw need to mention it :)

    /me thinks this is so gonna get modded down as flame, even tho its not.