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LinuxPlanet: Sneak Preview: Galeon Web Browser

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 18, 2000

[ Thanks to Kevin
Reichard
for this link. ]

“…Enter galeon, a GNOME/GTK-based browser that has taken
the Gecko rendering engine (Mozilla’s heart) and put it to work in
a small, fast browser that does nothing more than render pages,
store bookmarks, and provide all the speed of Gecko in a remarkably
small bundle.

“…The inevitable comparisons to how long it takes Netscape
Communicator to drag itself to the desktop caused a second round of
more speculative thinking. There are times when an 800-pound
gorilla of a browser is just fine, especially when it’s crammed to
its eyeballs with all the features you have to have to so much as
order a paperback on the Web.”

“On the other hand, when you just want HTML rendered and you
wouldn’t mind looking at the pictures on the page you’re planning
to read instead of resorting to Lynx, something less cumbersome
than a “browser suite” is a pretty attractive proposition.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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