Galeon on Alpha works!
I got galeon (http://galeon.sourceforge.net/) working this evening!
I'm using Mozilla 0.7 which I compiled from source (I suggest you
turn off debug symbols as it uses over a gig of disk space). Mozilla
itself doesn't work but raptor (the `viewer') does. I then downloaded
the latest galeon (0.9pre3) and compiled, I suggest you read the
instructions carefully as there are a few sutleties. I don't know if
my mozilla is incorrectly installed but it's not the same as galeon
expects so I sym-linked all the directories in the dist/bin directory
into the dist directory, I sym-linked dist/bin/component.reg into
dist and then created a directory called components in which I sym-
linked all files (shared libs) in bin/components to and all files in
lib/components. This seems to work. If this does't work for you
just use strace to work out what files it is trying to find.
Galeon is quite useable, its reasonably responsive and only uses
45MBytes of memory :-( There are few funnies; cut and paste doesn't
really work very well and when you start it for a second time you
must delete bookmarks.xml, history.xml, session.xml. If you use
bookmarks then you out of luck for the time being. Having said all
that it does keep all of its settings.
Some details:
dist: potato, with a lot of updated gnome libs
os: 4.0
hw: XL300
Could this finally be the time when we get a decent web browers?
rgh
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