  galeon was a gecko-based web browser that was created by marco pesenti gritti with the goal of delivering a consistent browsing experience to gnome desktop environment. it gained some popularity in the early 2000s due to its speed, flexibility in configuration and features. the disagreement over the future of galeon split the development team in 2002, which resulted in departure of browser's initial author and several other developers. this event marked the beginning of the browser's popularity decline, which led to its discontinuation in september 2008. some of galeon's features were subsequently ported to epiphany (now called web) â the descendant of galeon. == features == galeon made use of gecko's features including configuration options and standards support. apart from that, galeon had several features that were uncommon in browsers at that time: *mouse gestures *configurable user agent string *configurable display of favicons *customizable toolbars *configurable position of tab bar *smart bookmarks with search history *ability to specify own fonts and colors for web content *configurable mime types handler *configurable history expiry *page zooming == development history == the project was started by marco pesenti gritti with the goal of creating a web browser that would be fast and consistent with the gnome desktop environment. the first public version (galeon 0.6) was released in june 2000. === on the rise === the first releases of galeon were criticised for lack of such basic features as cookie and proxy support, though the browser added some features with every release. version 1.2 of galeon introduced many new features that drew attention of the general public. at the time of galeon's creation, the most popular linux browsers, including netscape and mozilla, were large multi-functional programs. this made them slow to start and often impractical due to their high memory usage and processor requirements. [[opera (web brow
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