Galeon is a GNOME Web browser based on Gecko (the Mozilla rendering engine). It is fast and has a light interface, and is fully standards-compliant. Galeon is a fairly mature browser that sports a full set of features including menus, personal toolbar, bookmark manager, cookie manager, prefs, and good dialog support. It has got strong set of comparable features and pretty fast also. Java, SSL, plugins and helper apps work well. It can be downloaded easily from Mozilla site.

Galeon is considered as one of the fastest browsers. Java, SSL - all works great with Galeon. The software contains a great plugin handler, a smart bookmark and a fast cookie manager. It provides good external application support, e.g. xemacs.

Galeon was the first mainstream graphical web browser that specifically highlighted on reducing peripheral functionality. This tight and great little browser is open source software, comes with GNU General Public License.