- May 6, 2004
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Despite all MS hating and bashing on IE7 I came across, I actually like it (well, maybe excpet for the fact that you can't recover tabs from a crash). But due to my habit of opening a whole lot of tabs and leaving them open as "marked for later", I like having another browser to visit a site or two without having to reload all the pages that have been left open in the previous session. Sure, I could use favorites but I usually forget about favorites feature all together and need to keep those links open to keep myself reminded.
For the most part, I have used opera and firefox. Both worked quite well for me, but I wanted to try something new and gave a shot at K-meleon for its claimed low strain on system resources. While I can't say I feel the difference in terms of lightness, I do notice how all of japanese/korean sites I visit would show up as bunch of question marks in the page title, even after going through the options to change the code paging; this is more of a annoyance than a real threat, as the actual pages show up fine, I can input letters in respective languages without a hitch. Regardless, the impression I got from that was the browser being decidedly unpolished. Is there a way to get around this?
Also, it never quits warning me about moving between encrypted and non-encrypted pages even when I uncheck that option. My guess is it just doesnt play nice with UAC and has to be run in admin mode to get the changes reflected? dunno...
Another yet more critical issue at this point is session saver plugin's incompatibility with layers. Whatever technical benefits layers may have over tabs, not being able to save sessions sux plain simple, sorry. Perhaps there is an alternative plugin that I havnt heard of?
So, is K-meleon still getting enough attention and support to mature? Does it have anything tangible to offer over firefox, other than not using XUL? Some googling seems to suggest that it bests firefox in terms of browsing speed, but those opinions are dated back to 2006. I kinda want to go back to firefox, but fear the memory leak that is yet to be addressed (allegedely). Feel free to suggest other lightweight browsers that have no compatibility issues and lets you save sessions.
For the most part, I have used opera and firefox. Both worked quite well for me, but I wanted to try something new and gave a shot at K-meleon for its claimed low strain on system resources. While I can't say I feel the difference in terms of lightness, I do notice how all of japanese/korean sites I visit would show up as bunch of question marks in the page title, even after going through the options to change the code paging; this is more of a annoyance than a real threat, as the actual pages show up fine, I can input letters in respective languages without a hitch. Regardless, the impression I got from that was the browser being decidedly unpolished. Is there a way to get around this?
Also, it never quits warning me about moving between encrypted and non-encrypted pages even when I uncheck that option. My guess is it just doesnt play nice with UAC and has to be run in admin mode to get the changes reflected? dunno...
Another yet more critical issue at this point is session saver plugin's incompatibility with layers. Whatever technical benefits layers may have over tabs, not being able to save sessions sux plain simple, sorry. Perhaps there is an alternative plugin that I havnt heard of?
So, is K-meleon still getting enough attention and support to mature? Does it have anything tangible to offer over firefox, other than not using XUL? Some googling seems to suggest that it bests firefox in terms of browsing speed, but those opinions are dated back to 2006. I kinda want to go back to firefox, but fear the memory leak that is yet to be addressed (allegedely). Feel free to suggest other lightweight browsers that have no compatibility issues and lets you save sessions.
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