Re: making Galeon like Firefox

Gavin Chester <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.galeon.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 20:33 +0900, Jeff Co wrote:
> Hello,
> I have just switched from Firefox, because I heard that Firefox has
> memory leaks. I have to restart Firefox every so often to get the
> memory refreshed. Anyway, I really like how Firefox can be customized.
> Please tell me how to customize Galeon. 
> 

from a terminal type "gconf-editor" and look under /apps/galeon/ for
options to setup galeon appearance and behaviour.

> Some things that I can think of now are:
> -what's the equivalent to Fx extensions?

None.  Use firefox if unhappy ;-).

> -spinner/throbber opens up whatever website we want, rather than
> http://galeon.sourceforge.net/

???  What do you mean?  You mean the address bar???  You just set your
own start page or a blank start page in the basic galeon options,
surely?

> --make the tab close on middle-button click (ala Firefox)
> make new tab open on doubleclick in free space ((like Firefox)
> undo close tab on middleclick in free space (like a tab extension for
> Firefox)

None.  Use firefox if unhappy ;-).  Seriously, 1/ I don't use that
feature, instead to close a tab I use the "x" on each tab or right click
on the tab to bring up context menu; 2/ right click on link to bring up
context menu and choose open in new tab, or I think there is an option
to make this the default action - see gconf-editor; 3/ no equivalent in
galeon, sadly :-( 

> search through all text in webpage, and  not just links, when i start
> typing

You mean typing in the address bar?  Otherwise cntrl+f to find anything
on a page. That works in any browser and many apps.

> have fullscreen really be full screen (no toolbars, address bar)

Don't use it myself.  Try looking in the options and in gconf-editor.

HTH

Gavin.



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