Advanced

Network

Protocol

You can choose either HTTP version 1.0 or 1.1. Some software, (e.g. Junkbuster) requires the older HTTP version 1.0 to function correctly.

Proxies

If you use a proxy to access web sites or FTP sites, enter its information here.

Options

Select this togglebutton if you wish to use proxy keep-alive.

Cache

The disk cache stores a local copy of pages and images you have viewed on your hard drive. The memory cache does the same thing in your RAM. You can set how much space you want the caches to use here. If you would like to delete all stored items, click the Clear cache button.

Filtering

Images

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 "From current server only" will often block these banner ads from displaying.

Popups

Many pages contain Javascript code that will open new browser windows. You can prevent these popup windows from being opened by selecting the Never option.

Cookies

You can choose to accept all cookies, accept cookies from the current server only, or do 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.

Click on Cookie Manager... to open the cookie manager window. Consult the chapter called Cookie Manager for more information on using the cookie manager.

Statusbar

Clear this checkbox if you do not want sites to write messages to the statusbar via JavaScript. This will prevent things like scrolling messages from being displayed in the statusbar.

Crash Recovery

Crash Recovery

In the remote chance that Galeon crashes while you're using it, it can save its state to allow you to resume browsing where you left off. The Recover from crashes dropdown list allows you to enable, disable, or receive a prompt if this occurs. Through the How to recover dropdown list, you can choose whether Galeon will reopen all of the URLs you had open or add the URLs to your listing of temporary bookmarks.

Java

Java

If you have a Java plugin installed, you can enable or disable it here. You can also enable or disable Javascript. These options are also mirrored in the Settings item in the menubar, described in the section called Settings Menu in the chapter called The Browser Window.