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There once was a browser based off of Gecko that was very popular until the team removed all the features that users loved about it. It was written in C and GTK

There once was a browser based off of Gecko that was very popular until the team removed all the features that users loved about it. It was written in C and GTK+. It was much faster than seamonkey and only ran on linux, but when all the good features were dropped, most people moved to phoenix, later renamed firefox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galeon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galeon > 2002-11-01 6:48 AM > Mozilla is nice, but Galeon…WOW, best browser i’ve ever used, and it beats mozilla hands down for speed (on my system atleast). https://www.osnews.com/story/2054/ https://www.osnews.com/story/2054/

ido 4y ago
What features were removed and what was the stated reason?
- Lammy 4y ago
  https://web.archive.org/web/20021229134102/http://epiphany.mozdev.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20021229134102/http://epiphany.m... "[Galeon fork] Epiphany's main goal is to be integrated with the gnome desktop. We don't aim to make epiphany usable outside Gnome. If someone will like to use it anyway, it's just a plus. Ex: Making people happy that don't have control center installed is not a good reason to have mime configuration in epiphany itself." https://web.archive.org/web/20051028022736/http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2450 https://web.archive.org/web/20051028022736/http://gnomedeskt... "As such, we've reached the conclusion that we have to change our approach if we're going to avoid Galeon getting stale or bit-rotting" "Epiphany has a bunch of active maintainers who are handling the things that we struggle to do for Galeon. But you say: Epiphany doesn't fit my needs or I'd be using it already! True, so our proposal is to bring Galeon to Epiphany."
- guessbest 4y ago
  A lot of features were removed like the control panel, variable width fonts and the tree bookmarks editor. It was 14 years ago, so it is hard to remember. The features removed weren't documented and reasons were never given. It just happened and it was very difficult to roll back because of the changes also required rolling forward or back the GTK+ libraries in debian. There was already a browser called Epiphany and Galeon was changed to mirror the features in Epiphany even if that meant there were less features than in Galeon 1.2.x and removal of features was unpopular with the users. https://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/Web/Browsers/Galeon%201.2.x%20vs%20Galeon%201.3.x.futile https://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/Web/Browsers/Galeon%... EDIT: I also forgot to mention that Phoenix, later renamed Firefox, was developed for Windows first. Linux development was considered an afterthought. It was recommended to use Mozilla or Seamonkey.
  - guessbest 4y ago
    Whoops, I made a typo. I meant variable width tabs, not fonts. There never will be a web browser as fast or as intuitive as galeon again. It is the end of an era.

ido 4y ago

What features were removed and what was the stated reason?

Lammy 4y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20021229134102/http://epiphany.mozdev.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20021229134102/http://epiphany.m... "[Galeon fork] Epiphany's main goal is to be integrated with the gnome desktop. We don't aim to make epiphany usable outside Gnome. If someone will like to use it anyway, it's just a plus. Ex: Making people happy that don't have control center installed is not a good reason to have mime configuration in epiphany itself." https://web.archive.org/web/20051028022736/http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2450 https://web.archive.org/web/20051028022736/http://gnomedeskt... "As such, we've reached the conclusion that we have to change our approach if we're going to avoid Galeon getting stale or bit-rotting" "Epiphany has a bunch of active maintainers who are handling the things that we struggle to do for Galeon. But you say: Epiphany doesn't fit my needs or I'd be using it already! True, so our proposal is to bring Galeon to Epiphany."
guessbest 4y ago
A lot of features were removed like the control panel, variable width fonts and the tree bookmarks editor. It was 14 years ago, so it is hard to remember. The features removed weren't documented and reasons were never given. It just happened and it was very difficult to roll back because of the changes also required rolling forward or back the GTK+ libraries in debian. There was already a browser called Epiphany and Galeon was changed to mirror the features in Epiphany even if that meant there were less features than in Galeon 1.2.x and removal of features was unpopular with the users. https://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/Web/Browsers/Galeon%201.2.x%20vs%20Galeon%201.3.x.futile https://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/Web/Browsers/Galeon%... EDIT: I also forgot to mention that Phoenix, later renamed Firefox, was developed for Windows first. Linux development was considered an afterthought. It was recommended to use Mozilla or Seamonkey.
- guessbest 4y ago
  Whoops, I made a typo. I meant variable width tabs, not fonts. There never will be a web browser as fast or as intuitive as galeon again. It is the end of an era.