A solution to the Galeon situation?

Nils Philippsen nphilipp at redhat.com
Thu Aug 21 20:57:29 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 22:04, Kevin Worthington wrote:
> > I've been using galeon as my browser for a while and have gotten used to
> > it's session features and smart bookmarks.  I've tried to move to
> > Mozilla, but can't import my bookmarks and it doesn't seem to have
> > sessions.  I've tried building Galeon 1.3, but it keeps crashing when I
> > try to print or open the preferences dialog.
> > 
> > Is there a better solution?  Anyone?  Anyone?
> Galeon has been replaced by Epiphany. It uses the Gecko rendering engine just like Galeon did. I don't know if it has all the features you want, but give it a try. Grab the latest from rawhide:
> http://rawhide.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/epiphany-0.8.4-1.i386.rpm

Some are not so fond of Epiphany (so am I), because they've gotten used
to some of Galeon's features and behaviour. I've built 1.3.7 and so far
haven't been disappointed so far (bar some minor glitches).

Nils
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