# Introduction

## What is Galeon?

Galeon is a web browser built around Gecko (Mozilla 's rendering engine) and Necko (Mozilla's networking engine). It's a GNOME web browser, designed to take advantage of as many GNOME technologies as makes sense. Galeon was written to do just one thing - browse the web.

Here's a list of some of Galeon's features:

GNOME integrated

- Uses global GNOME themes and settings

- Translations available for many languages

- CORBA used for automation

- Extensive Drag and Drop support

Mozilla powered

- Fast, feature complete rendering engine

- Support for SSL, Java, Javascript and plugins

Advanced bookmarks features

- Import and export bookmarks from Netscape / Mozilla

- Ability to display multiple bookmarks toolbars

- Builtin editor

- Bookmark nicks

- Temporary bookmarks

- Bookmarks represented by images

- "Smart Bookmarks" (bookmarks with parameters)

- Dynamically generated page with all your bookmarks (My Portal)

- AutoBookmarks, generated automatically from your browsing history

Configurable

- Browse with multiple windows, a notebook (tabbed) interface, or a combination of the two

- Fullscreen browsing mode

- Configurable mouse button actions

- Adjustable layout, spinner, colours, fonts

And more!

- URL autocompletion based on history

- Automatic session recovery

- Filter cookies, adverts, popups

- "Favicon" support, allowing Galeon to automatically download and use icons provided by websites

Because it's part of the GNOME project, Galeon is Free Software. The program and its source code are released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL), and the documentation falls under the Free Documentation License (FDL). For more information about the GPL and the FDL, visit the Free Software Foundation's website at http://www.fsf.org.

### This is a work in progress

Galeon is currently under heavy development. It relies on Mozilla, which is also undergoing heavy development. It has bugs and lacks some features, but is usable and gets better each day. Please help improve it by reporting any bugs you find or features you would like added. You should do this by submitting reports at Bugzilla or with the GNOME Bug Report Tool (known as `bug-buddy` at the command line).

## About This Book

This version of the Galeon User's Guide is a draft. It describes version 1.1 of the software. The content is subject to change, especially if you help. Please send comments on the guide to galeon-user@list.sourceforge.net. If you would like to work on the guide please send mail to alex.barnes@sympatico.ca.

### Typographical conventions

Some kinds of words are marked off with special typography:

- Applications
- `Commands` typed at the command line
- Labels for interface items
- Menu selections look like this: Menu Submenu Menu Item
- Buttons you can click
- `Anything you type in`
- `Text output from a computer`