Chapter 3. Setting Galeon Preferences

Table of Contents
Browsing
User Interface
Handlers
User Rendering
Advanced
Configuring the GNOME URL handlers

Galeon is very configurable. The preferences dialog is where you will find all the options available to customize your browser.

Browsing

Homepage

Home Page

When Galeon first starts up, it will automatically load the page specified here. Type an address into the entry bar or, if you are currently viewing a page you would like to set as your permanent home page, click the Set to Current button. You can also elect to make the "My Portal" page your home page by clicking on the Set to "My Portal" button.

Startup

When opening the initial browser window or a new, additional window, you can have a page loaded automatically. You can choose to open your home page, the page you last viewed, or a blank page.

My Portal

The "My Portal" page uses a Cascading Style Sheet to control the appearance of the information on the page. Here you can specify an alternate style sheet if you do not wish to use the default page supplied with Galeon.

Bookmarks

Bookmarks

When you add a normal bookmark, you can choose to have the bookmark name set to the page title or you can choose the name yourself. If you select the Ask user option, Galeon will display a dialog for you to type the desired name into when adding bookmarks.

AutoBookmarks

The auto bookmarking feature can be enabled here. You can also set how many bookmarks you want to be automatically generated. If you choose to have your AutoBookmarks displayed in a button toolbar, it may be useful to shorten the titles of the bookmarks so they will fit within the toolbar. You can set the maximum number of characters in an AutoBookmark title.

History

History

Galeon keeps a record of all your previously visited URLs. You can set how many days you want to keep these items in your history. After the specified number of days, a history item will be deleted. If you wish to immediately delete all items in your browsing history, click the Clear History button.

Location Bar History

Click the Clear button to immediately remove all items in the location bar history list.

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 Chapter 2>.

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.

Windows

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