A few ideas

Here are a few ideas for improving Galeon even more. I love the work
you guys do, but I have a few ideas to how you could improve my
browsing experience even more. I am using galeon 1.2.5 (for debian) so
if some of these ideas may be outdated. If have allready been
implemented are I am asking for your forgiveness in advance :)

Under the pulldownmenu "go" it would be nice to be able to chose
"history" (The one that pops up after "ctrl-h"). 

Under history it would be nice if there was a feature that allowed me
to filter of all the advertising links. Perhaps you could allow me to
chose between the following
# show pictures
# show pages
# show both 

It is not good to have redundant menus, but on the other hand it would 
be very practical to have a submenu  named "older history" placed in
the "go" menu. The subfolder could have subsubfolders named 
"go" -> "older history" -> "11 - 20"
"go" -> "older history" -> "21 - 30"
"go" -> "older history" -> "31 - 40"
Each of the subfolders should contain 10 links from the browsing
history. Using this feature I could very quickly brwose backwards in
the history of a single tab.

It is somewhat difficult to find "create new tab" in the menus. I have
had this problem several times. I tend to look for it in the "tabs"
menu, but I can only find it in the "files" menu.

I would like to have a feature named "copy this page to new tab". This
feature should create two tabs witrh the same page. Perhaps this could
even be the standard behavior of "ctrl-t"

I would like a newly created tab to be aware of the history of its
parent tab. So if I create a new tab with "middle click" I would like
to be able go to this new tab and press back many times to see the
entire browsing history. The great advantage is that I can kill one of
the tabs and still keep my browsing history. I realize that this stuff
is not simple to implement because you do not want to store the data
twice and you do not want memory leakage, but nevertheless it would be
a cool feature to have.

The following idea may not be useful (but hopefully inspiring).  When
I browse I always end up with too many open tabs. After a while I get
tired of some of them and delete them. This way I lose my browsing
history. Therefore I would like a feature that worked in the following
way.

Lets say that I have two tabs "p" and "c" with the browsing hisrories
p1 -> p2 -> p3 -> p4-> p5 -> p6        and
c1 -> c2 -> c3 

Let us say that I created the child tab "c" by double clicking on a
link on page "p3". Instead of deleting the child tab "c" I would like
a feature that enabled me to create a single tab with the following
browsing history
p1 -> p2 -> p3 -> c1 -> c2 -> c3 ->  p4 -> p5 -> p6

In most cases I would never bother about the pages c1, c2, and c3, so
it would not make a difference whether I use the feature described
above or if I simply delete the child tab, but in some special cases I
would like to be able to go back and find the pages c1, c2, and c3
after an hour or two. In those cases the new feature could be helpful
for me.

When I get jpg advertisements I can rightclick to "block images from
host xxx". It would be nice to be able to do something similar with
flash images. It looks as the problem is that when I put my mouse over
the flashplayer, Galeon is no longer in control. So I cannot acess a
Galeon menu bu rightclicking on a flash picture.  Perhaps you could
solve this problem, by adding the feature to the menu "view" -> "page
information":

When I use Galeon to browse gnome help pages or pages create by
latex2html. I always spend a lot of time searching for a link named
"next". After a while I press ctrl f next <enter>. This way I can go
forward by pressing ctrl-g enter. I don't know if it is possible to
automatize this in some way. Perhaps "ctrl - alt - N" could serach for
a link named "next" and press it for me.

Of course emacs-style incremental search would be nice, but I guess
that I am not the first guy to say this :)

And one last thing: Keep up the good work. I love the browser that you
have created. I use it every day with great pleasure :)

                Niels

-- 
Niels L Ellegaard  http://dirac.ruc.dk/~gnalle/


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