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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.
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 animated Spinner and the Go button can be toggled on or off using the appropriate checkboxes.
When switching into fullscreen mode, you can choose to leave the menubar, toolbars, and statusbar on by default by selecting the appropriate checkbox.
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.
Galeon operates in a "hybrid" browsing mode. Each browser window contains a notebook which itself can display multiple pages.
Clicking on a link with the middle mouse button can be configured to open either a new window or a new notebook tab through the Open in tabs by default checkbox. 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 labeled Shorten tab names to length.
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You can switch between notebook tabs 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 context menu item to jump to a particular tab. This is handy if the tabbed window labels are too numerous to completely fit inside the browser window. 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 tab. |
Use the Shorten tab names to length spinbutton to set the maximum tab name length. By default, Galeon will simply drop words from the end of the page title if it is too long to fit in the desired space. There are also several other title shortening strategies available.
You can choose to shorten names by looking for common separators, dropping vowels, or dropping common prefixes. The first option will look for a separator such as '-', ':', etc. and drop anything after that. The second option will compress words by removing vowels from words. For example, 'Slashdot' might become 'Slshdt'. This allows much more of the title to fit within the tab, while still remaining fairly readable. The last option searches for common prefixes like 'welcome to:' and drops them from the title.
Use this checkbox to replace the main toolbar button icons with the icons used in Nautilus. This option, of course, only works if Nautilus is installed on your system.
This section displays a graphical list of all spinners installed on your system. Click on an icon to select the spinner you wish to have displayed on your main toolbar.
Context menus are displayed when you right click in the document. Each context menu has a Back and Forward button. If you wish, right clicking on these items will display the history list of sites visited in the window. This list is identical to the one you get by right clicking on the back/forward buttons in the main toolbar. If you do not select this option, a right click will behave identically to a left click and will immediately take you back or forward in the browsing history.
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 option 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.
If you select this option, you can drag and drop links directly from the web page to browser windows or other applications.
Mouse wheel actions are configurable. Pressing a modifier key while spinning the mouse wheel up or down can execute a number of different actions.
These are the possible choices:
Scroll by one step: the mouse wheel will scroll by the desired number of lines, or the system defined step size if the "Use system default step size" option is checked.
Scroll by one page: the mouse wheel will scroll the page as if you had pressed the page up or page down key.
Move in the browsing history: the mouse wheel will move through the browsing history as if you had pressed the forward or back button. Mouse wheel down will take go back while mouse wheel up will take go forward.
Zoom: the mouse wheel will zoom in or out of the page. Mouse wheel up will zoom out (make the font smaller) while mouse wheel down will zoom in (make the font larger).
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