This goes beyond the difference between a Porsche and a VW. Here, you need the VW in order to ride the Porsche (assuming here Galeon is your Porsche ;-) And if KDE is your choice of desktop, then you need the other elephant as well... it's a bit of a steep price to sidestep one-time futzing to get a clean interface.

As it is, Mandrake's build of Mozilla 0.9.6 is as clean as Galeon. It doesn't have the Mail & News app, the sidebar is gone, and the taskbar is actually a little cleaner because the search engine boxes aren't there. And no strange things happen when arbitry keys are struck.

And both are a *lot* cleaner than Opera (even without the ad box, the pay versions would be overloaded)

Galeon can actually do some strange things as well in its default configuration: type in an incorrect URL, and it immediately bounces to Google to lend you a hand. Lots of fun if you have one of those fscking M$ ISA servers in front of the firewall with everything but NTLM authentication turned off, and an intranet that runs off a zillion servers without index pages. Grrr!!!