You can tweak many things about the galeon-1.3.5 configuration from the command line that you can no longer get at from the preferences dialog. Notably, the toolbar configuration:
gconftool -t string -s /apps/galeon/UI/Toolbar/setup 'new=std_toolitem(item=new);back_menu=navigation_button(direction=back,arrow=FALSE);forward_menu=navigation_button(direction=forward,arrow=FALSE);stop=stop_button;reload=reload_button;home=home_button;zoom=zoom;location=location;spinner=spinner;'
(This removes a few (to me) useless elements and make it more likely that you can fit a useful toolbar in a narrow window.)
