On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, David Holden wrote: > Jay Daniels wrote: > > after apt-get removed my Galeon, i quickly located an rpm for Galeon and > > reinstalled it. > > > > i prefer galeon over firebird/firefox or mozilla. > > > > why isn't Galeon included in fedora? > > > > i understand that some users want to be able to use the same web browser > > on both windows and linux and galeon doesn't have a windows version. > > however, i also think Galeon is superior to the other browsers. > > > > > > jay > > Fedora Core 1 _does_ come with Epiphany, which I believe is a project > that split from Galeon (the original guy in charge of Galeon left to > start Epiphany). From what I hear, he did this because he thought that > Galeon was becoming too "power-user" and he wanted a simpler browser, > thus, Epiphany. Why the Fedora team chose Epiphany over Galeon, I'm not > certain. Also the stable galeon 1.2... was for gnome-1.sometihing - and the development version was for gnome-2. (and unstable). So I guess both were not suited for the release. At that time - I did manage to build my own galeon1.3... - but it wouldn't render lots of pages correctly. So I had to move from galeon to epiphany. However now there is a new version of galeon 1.3.12 - which is reasonably stable and works (very similar to epiphany). And all of them (mozilla-1.6,epiphany-1.0.7, galeon 1.3.12) are installable from: http://apt.sw.be/redhat/fc1/en/i386/dag I still miss some of the galeon-1.2 features. And I really hate the fact that the keybindings are now set with gnome-settings - for both galeon and epiphany (and I don't use gnome - so these settings are not loaded at startup) Next try: firefox. But I got used to smart-bookmarks-toolbar - and I don't know how to configure this for mozilla/firefox. Satish
