IWHBALIACOY (I Will Hopefully Be A Lawyer In A Couple Of Years), but what if you leave a screwdriver lying around, and someone takes it and stabs an elderly lady in the street with it? Will you be found guilty?
Many people don't realise how easily their broadband equipped computer can be used to commit crimes.
The issue with focus is a different one - when I do the 'down' mouse gesture, a new empty tab gets opened. Galeon should, as it did in older versions and as Opera and Firebird do, bring focus to the address field - after all what else would I want an empty tab for.
There's a bug in their database about a reverse behaviour - it would bring focus to the address field when switching between already opened tabs, which is bad, because then you want for instance to use the spacebar for navigation. Probably when correcting that they broke the other thing.
It's just a quirk, yet a highly annoying one - opening a new page requires an additional click (and reusing current tab is just as hard without the erasing button).
A simmilar quirk is that it's impossible to move to the autocompletion list that appears when you press [tab] in the address bar using the down arrow. To use it you have to take your hand off the keyboard and click the list.
Things like that add up, ruining a previously excellent browsing experience.
Some things are probably transitional, it's surprising how long the whole process takes them though. Unfortunately the crippling of preferences stems from new GNOME viewpoint of "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity", which seems quite misapplied to a 'power browser' that Galeon used to be.
Hopefully getting shunned by Red Hat and Slackware and the advance of Epiphany will make the developers reconsider.
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).
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IWHBALIACOY (I Will Hopefully Be A Lawyer In A Couple Of Years), but what if you leave a screwdriver lying around, and someone takes it and stabs an elderly lady in the street with it? Will you be found guilty?
Many people don't realise how easily their broadband equipped computer can be used to commit crimes.
The issue with focus is a different one - when I do the 'down' mouse gesture, a new empty tab gets opened. Galeon should, as it did in older versions and as Opera and Firebird do, bring focus to the address field - after all what else would I want an empty tab for.
There's a bug in their database about a reverse behaviour - it would bring focus to the address field when switching between already opened tabs, which is bad, because then you want for instance to use the spacebar for navigation. Probably when correcting that they broke the other thing.
It's just a quirk, yet a highly annoying one - opening a new page requires an additional click (and reusing current tab is just as hard without the erasing button).
A simmilar quirk is that it's impossible to move to the autocompletion list that appears when you press [tab] in the address bar using the down arrow. To use it you have to take your hand off the keyboard and click the list.
Things like that add up, ruining a previously excellent browsing experience.
Some things are probably transitional, it's surprising how long the whole process takes them though. Unfortunately the crippling of preferences stems from new GNOME viewpoint of "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity", which seems quite misapplied to a 'power browser' that Galeon used to be.
Hopefully getting shunned by Red Hat and Slackware and the advance of Epiphany will make the developers reconsider.
"the right click clone tab/detach tab feature."
It's gone in 1.3. Don't upgrade.
IMHO they got exactly what they worked so hard for - rejection from everyone.
A far-from-complete list of features they broke:
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).