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guenter
Loader is gone. In the recent past it was only used to make an icon in fast start.
The loader.exe from 1.6 works for 74 with that function.
Yes, copying the loader over to KM 74, it does continue to work the same as recent versions before. But, I see it does more than put a shortcut icon in the system tray. If I move the Config slider to any one of the three settings other than None, a portion of K-Meleon is put into memory and makes for a somewhat snappier start. So, some pre-loading is possible, just not three distinct modes. The three all seem to use the same memory regardless, and I perceive no difference between them. This behavior is no different in KM 1.6 and the several versions before it.
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guenter
p.s. But it is not the powerful and bugy pre-loader of old that loaded part of the engine IE style - for that You would use a really old loader and run the risks of the old bugs on Your system. :O
I looked in the changelog and discovered why the three preload settings behave the same.
K-Meleon 1.0 (14 July 2006)
Rem: Loader faster and extreme setting removed from core.
So, there you go. It appears only the Fast (Preload browser engine) setting was retained of the three, despite no visual change to the slider in Config. Interestingly, the loader.exe grew in size from 20KB to 32KB with this less functionality.
Unfortunately, copying the loader.exe from KM 0.9 does not give KM 74 the full function back, so I guess too much has changed internally.
Anyway, KM 0.9 with Extreme preloading is amazingly fast without using too much memory. You're right, though. I can't really give up KM 74, so if the loader did work 74 probably would consume too much memory for me (I have only 256M
. If I had any more memory, it would be all right.
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siria
Personally I'm not sure if I'd want to have a loader, or if it really helps much. Only know in the forum there were often complaints that had to do with it, because people were not aware they had it running in the background.
True. The loader definitely is not perfect since it doesn't seem to release memory enough; it should restart K-meleon instead of just minimizing it. This would also help activate any changed settings that require a restart anyway, without the user needing to restart the loader. I could perhaps script a generic loader for my needs to do that.