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[Galeon | http://galeon.sourceforge.net/] is a WebBrowser for [GNOME]. It used to be the default, until [Epiphany] was forked off from it for dumbing down.

It is based on the [Gecko] engine, so its rendering and standards compliance are the same as [Mozilla]’s.

However, many more advanced users still prefer Galeon over epiphany and [Mozilla]/MozillaFirefox for a number of reasons:

* Tab completion in the location box (for sites in your history or the local filesystem)
* Superior tabbed browsing implementation – you can drag the tabs around to change the order/detach/change windows
* drag bookmarks and [URL]s to your bookmarks toolbar
* gnome-vfs and [GTK] skin integration (c.f. MozillaFirefox)
* supports pasting [URL]s into the window to open new tabs ([Epiphany] removed this)
* right-click on an image gives the option to block all images from the same server, permanently ([Epiphany] removed this)
* Uses the [GNOME] [MIME] system and [GNOME] preferred applications settings. So it will use the MailClient you’ve set in the [GNOME] preferences – no helper scripts or hidden preferences required.

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Last edited on Friday, May 20, 2005 1:29:45 pm by AristotlePagaltzis

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