Galeon

Galeon

Galeon 2.0.4
Original author(s)	Marco Pesenti Gritti
Developer(s)	Philip Langdale Tommi Komulainen Ricardo Fernández Pascual Yanko Kaneti Crispin Flowerday[citation needed]
Initial release	June 2000; 24 years ago (2000-06)
Final release	2.0.7[1]  / 27 September 2008; 16 years ago (27 September 2008)
Written in	C
Operating system	Unix-like operating systems
Type	Web browser
License	GNU General Public License
Website	galeon.sourceforge.net

Galeon is a discontinued 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 the departure of the 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) – the descendant of Galeon.