# 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 / Epiphany and Konqueror

- Ability to display multiple bookmarks toolbars

- Builtin editor

- Bookmark nicks

- Bookmarks represented by images

- "Smart Bookmarks" (bookmarks with parameters)

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

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.

### Feedback

Feedback can be made to the galeon-user@lists.sourceforge,net mailing list. You can report feature requests or bugs 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 1.3 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 galeon-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.

### 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`