Download Galeon 2.0.0

Galeon is a browser for the Gnome environment on the Linux platform, among others. The program uses the Gecko render engine from the Mozilla browser and offers full compatibility with the various current standards. Although the developers have decided to add the Galeon features to Epiphany, new versions of this browser are still being released at the moment. Version 2.0.0 has recently been released and contains the necessary improvements:

Yes, the day is finally upon us. As I promised when I announced our future development plans, here’s the actual Galeon 2.0 release. Its’ been about 3 years and 8 months since work began on the 1.3.x development series and it’s been unofficially stable for about half that time – so this acknowledgment of that fact is well past due.

As such, we have another modest changelog:

Version 2.0.0 “One for the road.”:

• Works with mozilla 1.7.5+, 1.8a3 and up; Firefox 1.0.x and 1.5
• Embedded http error message pages. (If mozilla supports them)
• Security Device Manager button in security prefs.
• Delete key works in Personal Data Manager.
• Support for multimedia keyboard keys like Back and Forward.
• Other bug fixes.

The big item is really compatibility with firefox 1.5 (assuming they don’t do anything silly in the next couple of days…).

I’ll repeat my assurance that this doesn’t mean we’re just stopping galeon development cold; it’s going to be quite a while before enough work has been completed to make epiphany my primary browser so, if nothing else, expect to see periodic releases that keep it compiling against newer mozilla releases. You might even see a bug fix or two.