User Interface

Layout

Toolbars

The location entry bar can be shown on same toolbar as the navigation buttons or it can be shown on its own separate toolbar. The toolbar buttons can also be shown as icons, as text, or as both. The Location: label and the Go button can be toggled on or off using the appropriate checkboxes.

Windows

The titlebar of the browser window can be configured to display any message you desire. Type your message into the "Title" entry or click on the arrow button to select a default message from a list. The %s variable represents the page title.

If the Keep fullscreen window above all other windows checkbox is activated, in fullscreen mode the browser window will be raised above all other windows on your desktop, including the GNOME panel. If this checkbox is deactivated, in fullscreen mode other applications will be able to cover the browser window.

Tabbed Browsing

Tabbed Browsing

By default, Galeon uses a multiple window interface. You can also choose an alternate interface — tabbed browsing. Tabbed browsing uses a single window with a notebook to manage multiple pages. Attempting to open a URL in a new window will add a new page to the notebook and open the URL there instead of creating a new window.

You can enable this interface with the Enable checkbox. Currently, the change will not be applied until you exit and restart Galeon. The Jump to new tabs automatically checkbox causes Galeon to automatically switch to newly created tabs. The Tabs appear along dropdown list allows selection of the location where the tabs will be listed. Finally, the maximum length of the names of the tabs can be set through the entry box labelled Shorten tab names to length.

Keyboard shortcuts and other tricks: You can switch between pages by using Ctrl-Up/Down or Alt-Up/Down You can also jump directly to a tab by typing Alt-[0-9] where 1 is the first page and 0 is the tenth page.

Notebook tabs also have a right-click context menu that will display the titles of all the tabs in the window. Click on a menu item to jump to a particular tab. This is handy if you have more tabbed windows open than will fit on screen.

Finally, you can drag links onto a tab to have that link loaded in a particular tabbed window. This is handy if you want to load a page in a different tab than the one you are currently viewing but don't necessarily want to open a new tabbed window.

Spinner

Spinner

The spinner can be shown or hidden. Activate the checkbox to display the spinner on the toolbar. You can also specify a directory containing a sequence of images that will be used as the spinner's animation.

Mouse/Context

Context menus

The default document context menu (the menu displayed when you right click on an empty section of the page) contains a large number of items. If you prefer a more compact menu, select the "Minimal document context menu" togglebutton.

Mouse buttons

The middle mouse button can be configured to show a popup menu containing all your bookmarks or to load a URL you have selected in another window. The latter options allows you to highlight a URL in, for example, a terminal window and then simply middle click in the browser window to load the URL.

Drag and drop

If you select this option, you can drag and drop links directly from the web page to browser windows or other applications.

Completion

Completions

The location entry bar and the open URL dialog support autocompletion of typed URLs. The autocompletion routine will search your history for a possible match to the characters being typed in. If autocompletion is enabled, the best current match will be automatically filled in as you type. You can also select the order in which you'd like the URLs used for autocompletion to be sorted.

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.