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Galeon 1.3.15 released

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2004-06-02 07:16. Galeon

Philip Langdale wrote: As promised, here's the first gtk+ 2.4 based release. We also made a bunch of other updates - the most significant of which is a serious overhaul of the downloading subsystem - most significantly meaning it doesn't crash all the time :-) In the feature restoration department, we see the return of the off-line mode and user stylesheets.

We're well on track towards a 1.4.0 release with most of the feature items we were shooting for implemented. Can't promise when it's going to happen, but we're closer than we were. :-)

Changelog:

Works with Mozilla 1.4 through 1.7rc2 and trunk
Requires gtk+ 2.4
Major download re-write:
- Much improved robustness; lots of crashes fixed
- Improved filename generation when saving pages
- Pages generated by a POST correctly saved
Restored offline mode
Restored ability to block cookie sites when removing cookies
Improved layout of personal data manager
Added context menu to links in page info dialog
Added image save button to page info dialog
Always show the menubar when F10 is pressed
Use more stock icons from the current icon theme
Implement user stylesheet support (put them in ~/.galeon/stylesheets)

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Re: Galeon 1.3.15 released

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2004-06-02 13:51.

Well, at the risk of being the unpopular AG in the bunch, I'm going to say this.

Galeon has been my browser of choice for years now. However, as time goes on, I keep getting closer to abandoning it, spending more and more time trying out other browsers. I haven't tried this new release yet, but over the last two years it has seemed to be getting *more* buggy and *more* unstable over time. At this point, one out of every three times I close a tab, the whole browser crashes. Galeon will crash on me four or five times in a single day. I'd file a plethora of bug reports about it if it wasn't for the fact that when it crashes so, it provides *no* useful information to STDERR -- not even a terse "Segmentation Fault" or something like that.

I loved this browser; and it feels like they keep mucking with it and it keeps getting more problematic.

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