Galeon is my new God

PARENA · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 349

The functionality and quality of Mozilla with the responsiveness of GTK. For anyone who hasn't tried it yet (I'm using the 'old' Galeon 1.2.7-r1 based on Mozilla 1.2.1) I advise you to do so. It's hard to explain, it's just simply great.

max_colby · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 3:33 pm Post subject:

I agree! I've moved from Phoenix to Galeon 1.3.3 (The latest Gtk2 development release) and it's been working wonderfully.

noff · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 8:07 pm Post subject:

What makes it better than Phoenix (let the flame wars begin)? I run Phoenix and I'm curious as to whether I shuld try it. Oh I'm running KDE but I have most GTK libs installed.
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Vancouverite · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 9:02 pm Post subject:

dylix · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 10:07 pm Post subject:

galeon is excellent!!! :twisted:

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ebrostig · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 10:16 pm Post subject:

I agree with noff...

Could any of you die-hard fans of galeon enlighten us infidels with what is so great about it?
(Please be specific, I can live without comments like: It r0cks, excellent etc, give us an evaluation about what it does better than Phoenix or Konquere or Opera etc)

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Ralphus Maximus · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 10:40 pm Post subject:

I like Galeon better because it seems to work better than the others. I've tried Opera, Mozilla, Konqourer, and they all have had problems with java menus and flash animations. The web site I use to test is World Wrestling Entertainment. I've not been able to get their menus to work properly under the others, but Galeon does a fine job rendering their pages.

It's very possible I don't have something configured correctly, but when I "emerge <browser>", Galeon is the only one to work out of the box.

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ebrostig · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 11:03 pm Post subject:

mynameisjonas · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 11:38 pm Post subject:

I used to love Galeon, indeed i thought it was the best browser I had used on any platform. I loved the 'completeness' of it, nifty tricks with tabbed browsing, the way bookmarks are handled, the speed + UI until this bug hit and it made browsing hell.

Then phoenix took off and I haven't looked back since! If however that issue has been fixed, I would whole-heartedly recommend it for those who haven't tried it.

Ralphus Maximus · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 11:46 pm Post subject:

max_colby · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 1:06 am Post subject:

allucid · Veteran Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 1314 Location: atlanta

my main concern right now is to find a browser that opens quickly (on my p3 800mhz 256mb ram). i tried phoenix which wasn't very quick, konqueror is kind of ruled out because i have fluxbox and i don't want to emerge half of kde if i don't have to, maybe i'll give galeon a try.

Empty_One · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2002 Posts: 32

I like it better for a few reasons. It came out before phoenix, so I have been using it for alot longer, and the second problem may be a setting problem, but I've never been able to fix it. In galeon, if I left click on a link, and the link would normally open a new window (like the links in this forum, I have galeon set to open it up in a tab beneath the current window. I have not been able to do that with mozilla or phoenix. Yes, middle click works, but 99.9% of my clicking is done with the left mouse button, so I find this the easiest.

When I have to use windows at work however, I do use phoenix.
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zephyr1256 · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 6:48 pm Post subject:

I like Opera. I also have mozilla installed now but I don't use it. I installed it because previously(in my old distro) there were certain sites that didn't work correctly in opera that I had to use mozilla for. Now everything seems to work with Opera, so I think I will unmerge mozilla soon.

A few things I really like about Opera:
-Opera has a mode where all your windows open open in one container for Opera, with a nice pager bar for the windows separate from your X pagers/screens. I find this very convenient.

-More generally, Opera is very customizable, and I love the mouseclick combinations that can be mapped to common browser operations(it also has options for mouse jestures to do things, but I don't enable that because I find it too easy to accidentally do them).

-If Opera is unexpectedly shut down(crash, power outage, etc.), when you go to start opera again, you have the option to continue browsing whereever you were, including all the windows that were open at the time.

-Opera is a very fast browser compared to Mozilla or Netscape(also IE, not that that is really an option, but just as a comparison), for me.

Lovechild · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 7:15 pm Post subject:

Galeon rocks my world..

Evangelion · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 7:20 pm Post subject:

H-Pi · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 3:16 pm Post subject:

one feature I only see in galeon is clicking with your middle button on bookmarks to open them in new tabs, so you don't have to open a new tab first, very usefull
and Ilike to have everything gtk+

with phoenix I encountered some problems with fonts, which could be hacked with some .js file, but I don't want to go hack a bunch of files just to work a bit normal, don't know if phoenix works that way

PARENA · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 349

H-Pi · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 10:06 pm Post subject:

PARENA · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 349

Sorry, misread your post

Jimbow · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 11:23 pm Post subject:

I just did an "emerge -up galeon" and the first dependency I got was:

Schmolch · l33t Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 746 Location: Germany

@allucid

Look at this option for galeon:

bash-2.05b$ galeon --help
Usage: galeon-bin [OPTION...]
-s, --server Don't open any windows; instead act
as a server for quick startup of new
Galeon instances

Should give you a startup time of <2 seconds

@ Jimbow
Yes cause its using the gecko-engine

H-Pi · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 10:34 am Post subject: