The future of Galeon (GnomeDesktop) [LWN.net]

The future of Galeon (GnomeDesktop)

Posted Oct 24, 2005 11:00 UTC (Mon) by zooko (subscriber, #2589)
Parent article: The future of Galeon (GnomeDesktop)

I recently switched back to galeon from firefox (after trying epiphany). The deciding factor was that
I can script galeon to open new tabs and load chosen URLs in them from bash. I have some bash
scripts that do this a lot.

The other important feature is that galeon offers to reopen all of your URLs that were open last time
it ran. This is valuable in case of a crash.

That is, such a thing as an operating system reboot. In fact, galeon has not been crashing,
although I think epiphany was when I tried it.

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The future of Galeon (GnomeDesktop)

Posted Oct 24, 2005 12:22 UTC (Mon) by pjdc (guest, #6906) [Link]

firefox -remote "openURL($URL,new-tab)". Mozilla and Netscape Navigator also supported this in some form - new-tab is obviously a more recent addition!

There's something called Session Saver for firefox - never used it though.

The future of Galeon (GnomeDesktop)

Posted Oct 24, 2005 12:32 UTC (Mon) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link]

Thanks for the help. I remember now why I didn't use firefox or epiphany for this -- I couldn't
make them stay in the background when I did this remote new-tab script. Instead, they would pop
to front each time. This was completely unusable for my use. I did spend an hour or so trying to
configure one or the other of them to do what I wanted, but couldn't figure out how to do it without
changing their source code and compiling my own version.

galeon has an option --no-raise that solves this for me.

The future of Galeon (GnomeDesktop)

Posted Oct 24, 2005 12:39 UTC (Mon) by jeroen (subscriber, #12372) [Link]

You can open new tabs with firefox using "firefox -remote 'openURL(http://lwn.net,new-tab)'".

To save your sessions, either with a crash or when you just close your browser normally, you can use the sessionsaver extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=436

The future of Galeon (GnomeDesktop)

Posted Oct 24, 2005 23:32 UTC (Mon) by gold (subscriber, #3971) [Link]

epiphany -n <URL> will open a URL in a new tab. Epiphany also supports crash recovery, giving you
the option to open pages you had open at the time of the crash. However, as far as I know, it
doesn't support explicit session saving, which is something I miss from Galeon. (In a pinch you can
simulate it with 'kill' from a shell.)