K-Meleon browser features, uses, advantages and disadvantages

K-Meleon browser is fast & lightweight, so, you will save more time for loading the web page open on your computer, It is more simple compared with Opera or Mozilla Firefox, without an assortment of plugins and add-ons that make the browser lighter and faster.

K-Meleon browser

K-Meleon is a customizable web browser. It is based on the Gecko layout engine developed by Mozilla, which is used by Firefox, It is Free, open-source software released under the GNU General Public License, and it is designed specifically for Microsoft Windows (Win32) operating systems.

K-Meleon browser is an open source, bare-bones Web browser for Windows, It is based on the Gecko rendering engine, the HTML rendering engine underlying Mozilla, Netscape 6, and Galeon. It supports W3C standards such as Cascading Style Sheets and the PNG image format.

K-Meleon browser is lighter & more tightly integrated with Windows than the other Gecko-based apps, The interface of K-Meleon browser is built on the Windows API rather than Firefox’s bespoke system, so its resemblance to early iterations of IE is understandable, It may not be the best-looking browser, but it is the fastest browser.

K-Meleon browser does browsing & nothing else in contrast to Flock browser. There are no additional features to slow down your browsing experience, though the essentials like tabbed browsing, themes, and pop-up blocking are included. K-Meleon browser is best for Windows users who want to get things done fast.

K-Meleon is a free open source browser, It is the browser you control, The developers can come from all over the world, This browser can be said as one of the great browsers, because it is open source so as to allow the user to modify or customize the browser so that in accordance with his wishes.

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K-Meleon advantages

K-meleon browser is fast and stable, HTML5 compatible, low RAM usage even with dozens of tabs open. There is CSS support without Javascript, unlike Netscape and Internet Explorer, K-meleon browser renders CSS when Javascript is disabled. This makes it appealing as a test-bed for CSS experimentation.

K-meleon’s interface is simple to begin with, and modifying it isn’t difficult. Its menus and accelerator keys can be changed easily by modifying the text files, available via Edit/Preferences. The main menu, toolbar, and URL bar can be dragged to new positions.

K-Meleon browser is older than Firefox (despite all the talk that it uses Firefox base). It was created in 2000, while Firefox started 1 year later, K-Meleon was a child of Mozilla’s embedding feature, and that’s a point of identity: K-Meleon is the Gecko engine inside a native Windows MFC-wrapper.

The main advantage of K-Meleon, standard Windows GUI makes it consumes less memory and CPU power for rendering than the original interface of Firefox and other XUL-apps. K-Meleon’s strengths are its speed and customizability. It was launched to create a lightweight web browser for Windows using the Mozilla core.

When you are limited in RAM on your Windows PC, K-Meleon is your browser. If you want as smooth work with the web as possible, then give K-Meleon a try, and even if you have a lot of RAM on your fresh and powerful computer, no browser could run there faster than K-Meleon browser.

There are many superb features in K-Meleon browser such as popup blocker, fast load times, Session save, mouse gestures, context menu, keyboard shortcut customization, popup search bar, themes, macros and more, The interface of K-Meleon browser is drawn from native Windows toolkit, So, it is easy on system resources and it is an up-to-date browser.

K-Meleon disadvantages

K-meleon is a web browser and nothing more, It is not an HTML editor or mail client, It doesn’t browse user net news, or allow the user to send the instant messages, Unlike recent bloated browsers, K-meleon browser does not have Shop button, It doesn’t try to be a portal, All it does is retrieve and display Web pages.

K-Meleon browser is the Default, It has already blocked the advertisements renowned, thus opening the web page loading so fast and very light & certainly takes up memory on your computer, It has no add ons, The website designers are writing bad scripts to harass users of less popular browsers and more users are needed.

The main problem with using K-meleon browser is rude websites, K-meleon is able to use any HTML5 websites, but incompentent site designers are writing bad code, They write the scripts saying “if you are not using Firefox, Chrome, Explorer or Safari, you can’t use our site”, regardless of the fact that K-meleon can use their site.

K-meleon comes with poor bookmark management. K-meleon can import Netscape bookmarks or IE favorites. The bookmarks can be added, organized, and removed, but these features are rudimentary. In particular, you have to manually add the shared library msvcp60.dll to your OS directory for bookmarks to work at all.

K-meleon’s bookmark editor doesn’t allow for the creation of folders or separators. Changes to the bookmarks are not reflected in the Bookmark menu until after the program is restarted. Sometimes changes to bookmarks are silently ignored.

K-meleon browser comes with some bugs in its handling of URLs and the cache, It reports that it cannot find the web pages that the other browsers handle correctly, This problem is acute with URLs for CGI scripts, whether a given CGI script will be invoked is a crap shoot, K-meleon browser is sending the page request to the last domain visited, not the domain specified in the URL.

Cache confusion, It is not unknown for K-meleon to respond to a URL with a completely different page, The page that is returned will be one from the cache, At this point, K-meleon is so confused that clearing the memory and disk caches doesn’t work, the only way to load the page you want is to restart the program.

Incomplete CSS implementation, in the page with the element with fixed position, links from that element to a named anchor on the same page do not work. The source of this problem is the underlying Gecko rendering engine, not the K-meleon team.

Many standard features are incomplete or not implemented. The list of things K-meleon browser doesn’t do is long. You can’t set default colors or type size via Edit / Preferences, which makes this browser a poor choice for people with poor sight, and K-Meleon is available for Windows only.

Some settings, such as the fonts and colors can be changed by manually mucking about with configuration files, but they should be configurable through the program. Visited links aren’t distinguished from unvisited links ( unless you hack K-meleon manually).

Despite its disadvantages, when the bookmark management is improved and the cache/URL bugs are fixed, K-meleon browser will become the primary browser.

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