Galeon

2000 – 2008 Discontinued

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Gecko browser for GNOME created by Marco Pesenti Gritti, valued for its speed in the early 2000s; ancestor of Epiphany.

Facts

Developer

Marco Pesenti Gritti, then community

Website

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Engine

Gecko

Platforms

LinuxBSD

Popularity

54/100

Lineage

Derived browsers (1)

GNOME Web (Epiphany)

Key versions

1. June 2000
   0.6GeckoFirst public version, a lightweight Gecko-based GNOME browser created by Marco Pesenti Gritti.[1]
2. Oct. 2002
   1.3.0Start of the development branch rewritten for GTK+ 2 and GNOME 2.[2]
3. Nov. 2002
   Epiphany forkThe lead author leaves and forks the project as Epiphany (later GNOME Web).[1]
4. 2002
   1.2Feature-rich release that drew the attention of the general public.[1]
5. Nov. 2005
   2.0.0First stable release of the 2.0 series for GNOME 2.[2]
6. Sept. 2008
   2.0.7Final release; development stopped in September 2008.[2]

Version sources: [1] Galeon (Wikipedia en), [2] sourceforge.net

Sources

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galeon