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Galeon Developers Interview

Posted by michael on from the at-least-it-isn't-named-firebird dept.

Nachtjäger writes "The Galeon website has an interview with the developers, describing overall project health, current problems, and future direction. There's also a place to ask your own questions for future interviews."

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  1. They've had a lot of trouble. by James+A.+A.+Joyce · · Score: 5, Informative

    People have been abandoning the project for imaginary problems or unimportant problems, all of which stem from, allegedly, "libbonobogui", which appears to be a graphical API for GNOME. This has been the cause of lots of kludges in versions 1.2 and 1.3 and they look forward to ceasing to use it. They've also been hit hard by being dropped by both Red Hat and Slackware! Fortunately, they're getting back on their feet now since some people have stuck with Galeon (which is a pretty fine browser, if not the prettiest) and so it's been gradually improving. I believe a new version was released just a few hours/days ago.

    Go download it! Show your support!

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    Bash script for FP whores

  2. Galeon RIP by grzebo · · Score: 5, Informative
    It used to be my favourite browser, but fore some reason or other the developers have decided to destroy it. While Galeon 1.2.x was superb, version 1.3 is just slightly better than IE.

    IMHO they got exactly what they worked so hard for - rejection from everyone.

    A far-from-complete list of features they broke:
    • Tab settings - how wide they are, if they should get shortened, etc.
    • favicons on tabs - supposedly it's possible to turnt them on using some magical commands, but I haven't managed
    • a button to erase the address bar - I don't want its content on my clipboard
    • focus of newly opened tabs/windows - additional clicks necessary
    • rocker style mouse gestures - just pressing RMB and then LMB used to go back
    • stability
    • saving sessions as groups of bookmarks
    • setting individual handling programs for different extensions


    Galeon used to be an example of how an Open Source Product can be better than proprietary one (i.e. Opera). Now it's just pathetic. One more reason to dislike anyting GNOME-related (and I used to run Galeon from KDE).