galeon?

Brian Johnson bjohnson at johnson-engineering.ca
Thu Feb 12 16:46:04 UTC 2004


> >>
> >> 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
>


No idea why they chose ephinany or firebird or mozilla, but running firebird,
ephinany and galeon on the same url showed only a 2MB difference in the memory
they used (the lowest was epiphany at 18MB).

IM, that extra 2MB is justified by galeon with it's numerous additional
features.





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