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Galeon: It's like Firefox for Spartans
Galeon pretty much the same thing, except it runs on Linux, not Windows. In our tests, the browser eats about half the RAM of Firefox 3, and renders pages using the same engine as Firefox 2, which means that some pages that look funny in Firefox 3 look better in Galeon, making the browser excellent companion piece of software.
Like K-Meleon, Galeon does not support add-ons, or Greasemonkey scripts. And it doesn't have some of the more useful features you can find in Firefox 3 like full page zoom.
There's no shortage of light weight web browser for Linux. But since Galeon can render any web page Firefox can, the browser is far more useful than other browsers such as Dillo or Konqueror.
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Subscribe to commentsPaul TanMay 19th 2008 12:44PM
Wasn't this posted here?
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/29/k-melon-its-like-firefox-without-the-bloat/
Brad LinderMay 19th 2008 12:45PM
That post looks at K-Meleon, while the goal of this article was to take a closer look at Galeon. If you look, you'll see that I included a link to the older article in this one.
RPMay 19th 2008 5:27PM
I'm confused too -- what is the difference? One is for Linux, one is for Windows?
So basically 2 names for the same thing, a Linux name and a Windows name? Um, OK.
Brad LinderMay 19th 2008 5:28PM
No, they're two different programs that serve a similar purpose. Each uses the Firefox 2 rendering engine. But one program was built for Linux while the other was built for Windows. I'm not sure why that's confusing.
Paul TanMay 20th 2008 10:38AM
Oh, that's right... think I misread.
alienvenomMay 19th 2008 5:17PM
Galeon + webkitgtk would be an awesome pair.