For Windows Users: Will you try the K-Meleon browser instead of Firefox

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episodic

episodic

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http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/


K-Meleon is an opensource gecko based browser which is much more configurable, much faster, and much leaner than firefox.


A new version is available today using the latest mozilla gecko codebase.

K-Meleon 0.9

Will you be trying it?


It literally loads in 1/2 a second on an older duron machine I have. .. .

Extremely well coded imho. . .

So talk about if you'd give it a chance or not. Why or why not?
 
Anubis

Anubis

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Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
I love my Opera. :)
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same here :D
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:thumbsup:


however i would still mess with it to see just how inferior it is to Opera, so I can make educated statments about it not being as good
 
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Pepsi90919

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this looks oddly familiar to an old build of mozilla. espcially how the 'password manager' thing is worded the exact same.
 
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acemcmac

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it's not that I'm an IE fan. It's that IE/Windows Explorer makes TOO MUCH SENSE to just give up on a fad browser.

With 4 monitors, your tabbed browsing is useless.
 
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kazeakuma

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Trying it now. The PC I'm using is no bench by any means, it's an utter pile of crap so this isn't gospel. It doesn't seem to load any faster, but the pages and browser seem to feel a bit more responsive and the rendering isn't folding the page (like your vsync page folding) that it was with firefox. This is on a castrated SDRAM P4 mind you, hence why it barely seems to want to render pages.

Default skin, meh.
Layers is a really confusing thing to call Tabs, which everyone else seemed to use just fine.
Like the View Page in IE option, like the plugin for FF on the context menu

Can't click grey space for the layers menu? Must click on existing tab, sorry LAYER.

It does seem nicely configurable out of the box (just finding most of the options now) and doesn't weigh in too much more than FF.

Going to be on my watch list, but probably not on my everyday use list.

EDIT: Just found the breaker for me, no Google toolbar or ability to use google searches in the main address bar.
 
episodic

episodic

Lifer
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Originally posted by: kazeakuma
Trying it now. The PC I'm using is no bench by any means, it's an utter pile of crap so this isn't gospel. It doesn't seem to load any faster, but the pages and browser seem to feel a bit more responsive and the rendering isn't folding the page (like your vsync page folding) that it was with firefox. This is on a castrated SDRAM P4 mind you, hence why it barely seems to want to render pages.

Default skin, meh.
Layers is a really confusing thing to call Tabs, which everyone else seemed to use just fine.
Like the View Page in IE option, like the plugin for FF on the context menu

Can't click grey space for the layers menu? Must click on existing tab, sorry LAYER.

It does seem nicely configurable out of the box (just finding most of the options now) and doesn't weigh in too much more than FF.

Going to be on my watch list, but probably not on my everyday use list.

EDIT: Just found the breaker for me, no Google toolbar or ability to use google searches in the main address bar.
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Wrong.

Go to tools - keyword autosearch

Now type what you are searching for in the url field.

Bam google search . . .
 
episodic

episodic

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Also, say you are looking up polar bears - you can type keyword: Polar bears and it will search google for that term btw
 
episodic

episodic

Lifer
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Originally posted by: Anubis
i just tested it for a bit, opera is still faster and more polished
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Well, at least give it a tilt for being FREE and open sourced :)
 
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kazeakuma

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Originally posted by: episodic
Originally posted by: kazeakuma
Trying it now. The PC I'm using is no bench by any means, it's an utter pile of crap so this isn't gospel. It doesn't seem to load any faster, but the pages and browser seem to feel a bit more responsive and the rendering isn't folding the page (like your vsync page folding) that it was with firefox. This is on a castrated SDRAM P4 mind you, hence why it barely seems to want to render pages.

Default skin, meh.
Layers is a really confusing thing to call Tabs, which everyone else seemed to use just fine.
Like the View Page in IE option, like the plugin for FF on the context menu

Can't click grey space for the layers menu? Must click on existing tab, sorry LAYER.

It does seem nicely configurable out of the box (just finding most of the options now) and doesn't weigh in too much more than FF.

Going to be on my watch list, but probably not on my everyday use list.

EDIT: Just found the breaker for me, no Google toolbar or ability to use google searches in the main address bar.
Click to expand...



Wrong.

Go to tools - keyword autosearch

Now type what you are searching for in the url field.

Bam google search . . .
Click to expand...

Ah, my eyes glazed over alot of that Tools menu. IMO another thing that needs to be fixed. The speed is definitely better, and it's less taxing on this PC than FF is. Default plugins are nice too. Buuut UI needs a fair bit of work. I'm not a big fan of menus within menus, messy and can be a prick to click on the right thing. I'm still playing with it, post more later I guess.
 
Colt45

Colt45

Lifer
Apr 18, 2001
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I've used it in the past, I completely forgot about it though!

I wonder what made me stop using it.. hmm..
 
Mo0o

Mo0o

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I love opera because it configures itself to resemble my window's theme.
 
episodic

episodic

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Ahh, also notice this has mouse gestures by default. (I had not noticed this until now)
 
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