# Setting Galeon Preferences

Galeon is very configurable. The preferences window is where you will find all the options available to customize your browser. You can open it by clicking the Preferences item in the Edit menu. On the left side, there is a listing of several different categories of options. When you click a subcategory, its page will be displayed in the window.

Galeon uses the GNOME settings to control the theme for the toolbar, icons and spinner. You should alter these settings using the GNOME Control Center.

## General

Home Page

  When Galeon first starts up, it will automatically load the page specified here. Type an address into the entry bar or, if you are currently viewing a page you would like to set as your permanent home page, click the Set to Current button. If you want the "My Portal" page your home page by, type in `myportal:`.

On New Page

  When opening a new window (or tab), you can have a page loaded automatically. You can choose to open your home page, the page you last viewed, or a blank page.

Save Session on Quit

  If the Save session on quit button is checked, your session will always be saved when you exit Galeon.

## Language

Languages

  This section lets you manage the languages that Galeon requests from Web Sites. This option helps a web site return the correct language.

  To alter the list of languages, choose Edit. This opens a dialog that allows the list to be re-ordered, and new languages added and removed.

Charsets

  You can select the default character set that will be used for text here, and whether this setting should be autodetected.

## Fonts

Fonts

  In this section, you can customize the fonts that the Mozilla rendering engine will use when displaying pages in Galeon. If the Always use these fonts button is checked, these fonts will be used on all pages; otherwise, they will only be used by pages that do not specify their own fonts. The font sizes selected in the dialog boxes opened by the Serif and Monospace buttons determine the default sizes for all variable- and fixed-width fonts, respectively. The Min. Size spinbutton allows you to specify the minimum point size for fonts that are displayed. The default font type, either Serif or Sans Serif, can be selected. All of these options can be set for each of the encodings listed in the Language encoding box.

  ### Tip

  Make sure you select the appropriate character set in the font browsers for the language that you're using (`iso8859-1` for Western European languages)! If you don't, your settings may be ignored.

## Tabs

Tabbed Browsing

  Galeon operates in a "hybrid" browsing mode. Each browser window contains a notebook which itself can display multiple pages. You can find more information about this feature in .

  The Open in tabs by default option causes middle-clicked links to open in new tabs, rather than new windows. The Jump to new tabs automatically option causes Galeon to automatically switch to newly created tabs. The Show tab bar if only one tab is open option causes the tab listing to be shown even when only one tab exists in the window.

  The Open popups in tabs option causes popup windows opened by pages to appear in tabs, rather than in new windows.

## Mouse

Mouse buttons

  When you click on a link with the middle mouse button, the link will be opened in a new window or tab. Middle-button clicks elsewhere in the browser window, though, can be configured to activate mouse gestures, load a URL contained in the clipboard, activate manual scroll, or automatic scroll (like Internet Explorer or to do nothing. The second option allows you to highlight a URL in, for example, a terminal window and then simply middle click in the browser window to load the URL. Information about available mouse gestures can be found in .

Mouse wheel

  By default, the mouse wheel scrolls by 1 line. This can be customized to scrollwithin the range of 1 to 100 lines.

## Web Content

Enable Java

  This will enable Java support, assuming that you have the appropriate plugin installed.

Javascript

  Javascript is a simple language that can be embedded into web pages to allow advanced interaction with the user. You can turn off support by unchecking the Enable javascript checkbox.

  Javascript can also open popup windows, most unrequested popup windows contain unwanted adverts, so it is advised that you leave the Allow unrequested popup windows checkbox empty. You can manage which sites are allowed to open unrequested popup windows using the Manage popups button, this opens the Popup Sites page of the Personal Data Manager

Image loading

  When images are present in a page, you can choose to always load them, load them only if they come from the current server, or never load them. Images for banner ads are usually loaded from a different server than the page you are viewing, so selecting "Load from current server only" will often block these banner ads from displaying. To open the Image Sites page of the Persistent Data Manager, allowing you to block images from specific sites, click the Image Sites button.

Animated Images

  Animated images can be very annoying, and so you can choose to continuously animated images, only animate them once, or never animated images.

  ### Other techniques

  There are techniques for displaying animated images (e.g. flash or javascript) that aren't covered by this option.

## Privacy

Cookies

  You can choose to accept all cookies, accept cookies from the current server only, or to not accept any cookies. If you want to be notified when a site attempts to store a cookie on your computer, select the Warn before accepting a cookie checkbox.

  Clicking the Cookies... or Cookie Sites... buttons will open the corresponding pages of the Persistent Data Manager, allowing you to manage the cookies that are being stored and the site-specific cookie policies.

Passwords

  Galeon can automatically remember username/password combinations that you enter. To enable this functionality, check the Remember passwords for sites that require logins button.

  Clicking the Passwords... or Password Sites... buttons will open the corresponding pages of the Persistent Data Manager, allowing you to manage the username/password combinations that are being stored and the listing of sites for which combinations should not be stored.

Certificate

  Use the Certificates to manage user certificates (such as those used for online banking), and Certificate Authorities.

## Network

Network Proxy

  Galeon uses the GNOME proxy setting. Clicking the Configure Network Proxy will open the GNOME Network preferences program, where you can edit the proxy details.

Cache

  The disk cache stores a local copy of pages and images you have viewed on your hard drive, in order to make browsing of pages that you've already visited faster. If you would like to delete all stored items, click the Clear cache button.