New Best Browser - K-Meleon


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Just stumbled upon a browser I had not heard of before and I must say it I like it better than Firefox & Opera & IE. .. it is amazingly fast + has all the features that I like from the big browsers....

It is based off the Mozilla engine and is freaking sweet! Check it out at:

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/

Maybe you guys all know about it already but I bet there are some people that have not checked it out yet.

Screenshots:

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/shots.php

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First its not very new, secondly it is very nice and lightweight and has incredible speeds, plus the gecko rendering engine. Just doesnt have the power of FF extensions and I didnt feel it met my requirements of being my default browser, not enough features,. but yeah very nice little browser :)

edit: theres ONE feature of k-meleon that i absolutely love, the up arrow feature to go up one directory, very convientent if you find a link on a search engine or something

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No, not very new. In fact its older than firefox (firebird, phoenix) but a lot of people seriously needs to take a look at it.

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yeah I saw it has been around for like 4 or 5 years but I just have not heard people talking about it or anything so I thought I would post this up... its a great little browser!

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This was my default browser for a long time about 3-4 (maybe even 5) years ago. I never did care for it's IE imitation style and I care even less for its MyIE 2 (I forget it's new name, nor do I care what it is) style now.

It's plenty functional alright; it’s just not very imaginative. That’s the way it’s always been and that’s the way it’s likely to stay.

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I've tried this one before but as you see it's older than firefox while not as popular, it must have some glitches in it. Instead of kmeleon, I recommend firefox to anyone who wanna use gecko engine.

What is its advantage imo is light weight.

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I've tried this one before but as you see it's older than firefox while not as popular, it must have some glitches in it. Instead of kmeleon, I recommend firefox to anyone who wanna use gecko engine.

What is its advantage imo is light weight.

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It is lightweight and more customizable....

Don't get me wrong I still have Firefox & IE installed incase pages don't render correctly but so far to problems... got flash installed fine... and it actually renders pages firefox cannot

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I've been using it since the last official version 0.9 was released and I like k-meleon a lot.

It has the allowance to be a very hands-on browser without requiring me to be technically astute.

I've been discovering that it is capable of far more than I initially thought it was through the basic editing of macros,accelerators etc

But those terms make it sound more difficult than it is - even I can copy and paste bits from text into another simple text file :yes:

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Well, I used that along side FF and really didn't find any difference in speed. That said, I have modified my FF a tad ;) and they both ran just as fast as the other.

However, FF has the advantage of its Plug-in support.

K-Meleon has advantage of being light-weight, but that is not concern of mine so opted to stick with FF.

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Some of you guys are saying that you've used this browser like 4-5 years ago... but I guess it has improven a lot since then!

Personally I haven't tried this browser but I think it deservers giving it a shot... !!

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I tried this browser out... it's good, but somewhat limited.

The customizability of it is nowhere near Opera, or Firefox for that matter. You can't even move the tabs (or Layers) to the bottom.

It would be good if they could develop it to be more user customizable and still keep the speed.

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and it actually renders pages firefox cannot

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Unless is uses a much newer version of gecko, i cant see how that happens.

I would try it, but i love my extensions too much, add so much power to firefox, and allow me to customise it in ways i cant with other software

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I would try it, but i love my extensions too much, add so much power to firefox, and allow me to customise it in ways i cant with other software

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I'm right with ya on the extensions. plus. well I dont know really how to explain it but to me it feel's...loose. maybe even unfinished.

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First its  not very new, secondly it is very nice and lightweight and has incredible speeds, plus the gecko rendering engine. Just doesnt have the power of FF extensions and I didnt feel it met my requirements of being my default browser, not enough features,. but yeah very nice little browser :)

edit: theres ONE feature of k-meleon that i absolutely love, the up arrow feature to go up one directory, very convientent if you find a link on a search engine or something

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Both the official Google Toolbar and the open source Googlebar has this feature.

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Unless is uses a much newer version of gecko, i cant see how that happens.

I would try it, but i love my extensions too much, add so much power to firefox, and allow me to customise it in ways i cant with other software

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Depends on which combination of extensions you prefer. Some of them are built into K-meleon. Others are not. But then it makes K-meleon a more complete browser as opposed to FF, which ships as a barebones browser. In fact, my complaint would be the opposite. If I can install extensions onto Portable FF and not install any registry keys under the profile folder, I would prefer Firefox altogether.

Not trolling but just explaining why I prefer K-meleon.

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For those wanting to block ads from even downloading (unlike the userContent.css way), try this:

You can achieve results similar to those of adblock by using a PAC file. The PAC file has to be edited manually to add or remove filters, but it can block just a directory or even just a single image in addition to blocking entire sites, and (unlike the usercontent method) it prevents the images from being downloaded. Here's how to get PAC files to work in KM:

==FOR THOSE OF YOU NOT USING THE HAO CCF 0.019a2 (or later) VERSION==

Download this file:

http://allspark.net/cypherswipe/nsProxyAutoConfig.js

Close k-meleon. Place the file in the components folder in your k-meleon folder (something like c:/program files/k-meleon/components/), click "yes" when it asks if you want to overwrite the existing file. Delete the compreg.dat file located in the same folder. (It'll be rebuilt the next time to load k-meleon.)

Fire up k-meleon and click

edit->prefs->proxy->automatic proxy config URL

and put file://C:/adfilter2.pac (or where ever you saved the .pac file to) as the URL.To test it, go to http://googlesyndication.com, you should have just a blank page. If you get a google site, close k-meleon and reopen it.

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Once you have done that, or if you are using the above mentioned version:

Download this file:

http://allspark.net/cypherswipe/adfilter2.pac.txt

Remove the .txt extension.

To add or remove something from the filter list, just open the pac file in notepad or any other text editor. You will see a bunch of lines like this:

shExpMatch(url, "*clickthru*") ||

To remove something, simply find the line that mentions it and delete it. To add something, just add a new line and replace *clickthru* with whatever you want to block. The *'s are wildcards.

For example,

shExpMatch(url, "*stupid-image.jpg") ||

would block the file called "stupid-image.jpg". You can block single images, whole directories, or even whole sites using this method.

If you need to (or just desire to) connect through a proxy, go to the end of the file and look for the line

return "DIRECT";

Replace "DIRECT" with "PROXY [address]:[port]". For example: "PROXY 216.532.25.23:82"

Note: I didn't write this, I got it from the K-Meleon forums. I have used this method and it seems to give me the same result as the Adblock extension in Firefox.

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This is old and isn't this based off same engine as FF?

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Try K-MeleonCCF which is based on Gecko 1.8b4 as the same engine as deer park.

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