galeon?

Jay Daniels jay at InfoAve.Net
Thu Feb 12 14:39:40 UTC 2004


David Holden said:
> 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.
>
> David.
>
>

Strange, I heard almost this same story about firebird a while back.

Haven't used Ephiphany much, but Galeon seems to be a lot better than
Firebird (whatever they call it now).


jay





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