Hi all

I've spent about 2 hrs now and no matter WHAT version I've tried I keep getting the same result: No Back, Forward, Go etc buttons (IIRC that was called the Main Toolbar, well that bar is entirely missing). Manual Domain completion no longer works (e.g. pressing Ctrl+Enter to get the www. and .com prefix/suffix) and the privacy features (Javascript on/off, FlashBlock etc) are gone, I'm sure I'll run into others but right now those are big ones.

This is a fresh install of Windows (XP SP2) and KM1.6+ was the first thing to be installed (after drivers) I have no clue what's causing this.

I've tried installing 1.6beta2 initially, then went to KM1.7a2, then tried out a solution that was given back in 2007 on the forum (same missing buttons/toolbar problem, except for KM1.5 - the solution back then was to go to about:config and set kmeleon.toolband&Main Bar.visibility to True) and finally tried going back to KM1.6a4. NONE of these worked.

KM-1.5.4, however, has everything working great. As much as I love the 1.5 series - I'd like to progress a little ahead (KM1.6+ web rendering has spoilt me!)


Anyhelp at all would be appreciated

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sys specs for KM reporting: PIII-1GHZ, 1GB RAM, WinXPsp2

Quote from the download page, below "latest dev. version":

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If you have problems to run some 1.6.0 Beta version is possible you need install:
VS2005 Redistributable
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=200B2FD9-AE1A-4A14-984D-389C36F85647

Have you tried that already...?

Yep, I have, installed that (VC2005 redistributable) and when it didn't work, I installed VC2008 redistributable, then SP1 for vc2008 redis. No go unfortunately

Edit: I've fixed it! I *still* have no clue how or why it got fixed, but all I did was Download a build made by Fred (KM-16-S2013 to be exact) I extracted the file to desktop and then ran it (no other instances of KM were running at the time)

Fred's build had everything showing up fine, after closing his version I went back to the offending copy of KM1.6 I had installed and...I had everything working again! Toolbars, buttons, hotkeys , the works!

Thank you Fred! For making builds of KM that I'll never use unless I'm frustrated! (and for making builds that magically fix the official ones!)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/28/2011 09:27PM by machinesmith.

Crazy... But glad it works now!!
Could it be that there's some prob with creating a new profile the first time or something??? And Freds version created one in your user account, and at next start KM1.6beta found it? Just a wild guess.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/28/2011 09:52PM by siria.

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machinesmith
Hi all

I've spent about 2 hrs now and no matter WHAT version I've tried I keep getting the same result: No Back, Forward, Go etc buttons (IIRC that was called the Main Toolbar, well that bar is entirely missing). Manual Domain completion no longer works (e.g. pressing Ctrl+Enter to get the www. and .com prefix/suffix) and the privacy features (Javascript on/off, FlashBlock etc) are gone, I'm sure I'll run into others but right now those are big ones.

This is a fresh install of Windows (XP SP2) and KM1.6+ was the first thing to be installed (after drivers) I have no clue what's causing this.

I've tried installing 1.6beta2 initially, then went to KM1.7a2, then tried out a solution that was given back in 2007 on the forum (same missing buttons/toolbar problem, except for KM1.5 - the solution back then was to go to about:config and set kmeleon.toolband&Main Bar.visibility to True) and finally tried going back to KM1.6a4. NONE of these worked.

KM-1.5.4, however, has everything working great. As much as I love the 1.5 series - I'd like to progress a little ahead (KM1.6+ web rendering has spoilt me!)


Anyhelp at all would be appreciated

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sys specs for KM reporting: PIII-1GHZ, 1GB RAM, WinXPsp2

I too had the exact same problems right after a fresh install of XP PRO SP3 on my laptop. I didn't find your solution, but I did install the VC2005 stuff and something else, can't recall exactly what and after a reboot, voila!, everything was as it should be. Can't say what redistributable files are needed, but there is definitely something there that was missing and could be fixed by installing something, but exactly what I don't know. This was a single user install with profile.ini in the program folder. I don't let things write to the registry very often if I can help it.


FRED????

XP PRO SP3
K-Meleon 1.6beta 2 (Guenter's hack)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19pre) Gecko K-Meleon/1.6.0

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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 04/28/2011 11:31PM by ndebord.

ndebord

where is guenter's hack available form (for KM 16-B2) ?

frank

guenter does not hack but sometimes builds updates for the GRE of 1.6.beta2.
Cave: guenter only supplies files without any warranties. & Users must know how to manually update the GRE themselves.

p.s. Read desga2's how too for the older GRE of 1.5.x if You do not know how.
It is done the same way - only other K-Meleon & GRE versions.


I will probably re-build the most recent SeaMonkey or Firefox code this weekend.
But my site is down.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/29/2011 06:14PM by guenter.

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guenter
guenter does not hack but sometimes builds updates for the GRE of 1.6.beta2.
Cave: guenter only supplies files without any warranties. & Users must know how to manually update the GRE themselves.

p.s. Read desga2's how too for the older GRE of 1.5.x if You do not know how.
It is done the same way - only other K-Meleon & GRE versions.


I will probably re-build the most recent SeaMonkey or Firefox code this weekend.
But my site is down.

Guenter,

Guenter doesn't hack, but is Guenter a hack? <g,d&r>>

<VBG>

A rebuild on the latest Seamonkey would be very much appreciated here!

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/30/2011 12:48AM by ndebord.

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ndebord

Guenter doesn't hack, but is Guenter a hack?


A rebuild on the latest Seamonkey would be very much appreciated here!

Whatever that means? (I assume cludge?)

You can also use Firefox sources, it does not matter after recent code changes



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/30/2011 02:03PM by guenter.

Guenter,

Kludge is American spelling, as for hack, either as in hacker or as in "hack writer" <g,d&r> A witticism or as they would say where I come from: corn-feed humor.

Good to know that you are no longer dependent solely upon SeaMonkey sources!

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/30/2011 05:41PM by ndebord.

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ndebord


Good to know that you are no longer dependent solely upon SeaMonkey sources!

Not You or me but K-Meleon.org.

p.s. For as long as it lasts = 1.9.1x currently.

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guenter

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ndebord


Good to know that you are no longer dependent solely upon SeaMonkey sources!

Not You or me but K-Meleon.org.

p.s. For as long as it lasts = 1.9.1x currently.

Guenter,

I stand corrected... but still, good to know!

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I had the same problem with 1.6.0
I then installed 1.5.4 and I now have the buttons back, however I can't
open preferences. When I try I get this message..."XML parsing error undefined entity. location:chrome//kmpref/content/pref.xul line #4, column 1: Dialog xmlns www.mozill.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"
What can I do to access preferences?

I am not sure which 1.6 version you are trying. I have a 1.6.0 beta 2.4 at this location. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1522294/K-Meleon1.6.0_Beta2dot4_en-US.7z

You might give it a try to see if that fixes your problem. Make a new folder and use 7zip to extract the files to that folder.

Hanlon’s razor is an eponymous adage named after Robert J. Hanlon that states: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

JamesD

Probably a profile problem.

Try to create a new profile to see if it's better.

I think that sharing the same profile between 2 different versions of K-Meleon is not a good idea.

A+

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Mozilla/5.0 (x11; U; Linux x86_64; fr-FR; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Ubuntu/12.04 K-Meleon/76.0

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Web: http://jujuland.pagesperso-orange.fr/
Mail : alain [dot] aupeix [at] wanadoo [dot] fr

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Ubuntu 12.04 - Gramps 3.4.9 - Harbour 3.2.0 - Hwgui 2.20-3 - K-Meleon 76.0 rc

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/24/2011 07:42AM by JujuLand.

The problem is the C++ 2005 SP1 dlls.

I dealt this week with this problem too in a... let's say "at work computer". In the downloads page you have the correct download. Don't search with Google as you probably end in C++ 2005 *pre SP1* installable.

Well, I forget it.

You can download a tiny version here:

http://jujuland.pagesperso-orange.fr/

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Mozilla/5.0 (x11; U; Linux x86_64; fr-FR; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Ubuntu/12.04 K-Meleon/76.0

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Web: http://jujuland.pagesperso-orange.fr/
Mail : alain [dot] aupeix [at] wanadoo [dot] fr

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Ubuntu 12.04 - Gramps 3.4.9 - Harbour 3.2.0 - Hwgui 2.20-3 - K-Meleon 76.0 rc

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JamesD
I am not sure which 1.6 version you are trying. I have a 1.6.0 beta 2.4 at this location. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1522294/K-Meleon1.6.0_Beta2dot4_en-US.7z

You might give it a try to see if that fixes your problem. Make a new folder and use 7zip to extract the files to that folder.

That did not work, still have the same problem.

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JohnHell
The problem is the C++ 2005 SP1 dlls.

I dealt this week with this problem too in a... let's say "at work computer". In the downloads page you have the correct download. Don't search with Google as you probably end in C++ 2005 *pre SP1* installable.

I downloaded directly from the download page.
I went to the jujuland site, but nothing would download.
How do I fix the dlls?

Sorry, I had problem with an update, and the pages were broken.

That's now ok

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Mozilla/5.0 (x11; U; Linux x86_64; fr-FR; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Ubuntu/12.04 K-Meleon/76.0

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Web: http://jujuland.pagesperso-orange.fr/
Mail : alain [dot] aupeix [at] wanadoo [dot] fr

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Ubuntu 12.04 - Gramps 3.4.9 - Harbour 3.2.0 - Hwgui 2.20-3 - K-Meleon 76.0 rc

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Ok nothing has worked so far.
Any other suggestions?

check you have this 3 files in windows/system32:
Windows\system32\mfc71.dll
Windows\system32\msvcp71.dll
Windows\system32\msvcr71.dll

Second option, you can try to put them in KM-folder

All three of those dlls are missing from my machine.

So this maybe the reason!
Download them here:
http://www.2shared.com/file/3zYsec9G/ms_files71.html

and place into windows/system32



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/26/2011 07:40PM by rodocop.

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rodocop
check you have this 3 files in windows/system32:
Windows\system32\mfc71.dll
Windows\system32\msvcp71.dll
Windows\system32\msvcr71.dll

Second option, you can try to put them in KM-folder

Not so fast.

These files belong to K-Meleon 1-0-1.5.4.
These K-Meleons are compiled with VC 7.1.

The topic is KM16Beta2+ Missing toolbar & buttons
Current K-Meleon 1.6 variants are compiled with VC8.
It needs the VC 8 redistributable package or the minimalistic hand out by jujuland linked by JamesD already.

The toolbar, favorities, bookmarks, hotlist, bmpmenu dlls/kplugins & K-Meleon.exe need support for a certain older code in comctl32.dll if You want the to create proper bars.

Additionally for alpha transparency on all Windows XP or newer (Not Win98 or Win2000) make sure that Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls has version="6.0.0.0".

See the last 2 posts in this related thread. http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?3,115632,116686#msg-116686

But I have no ideas if that does not help.

but presence of these files really affects some aspects of the performance of 1.6-1.7 builds I'm using.

P.S. I've slightly corrected my previous message though...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/26/2011 07:41PM by rodocop.

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rodocop
but presence of these files really affects some aspects of the performance of 1.6-1.7 builds I'm using.

P.S. I've slightly corrected my previous message though...

Ok.

Fred's 1.6-1.7 compilations sometimes use VC 7.1 generated Kplugins with VC 8 compiled exe.
So it effects some builds functions but not official ones.

It does not effect KM16Beta2+. Generally it only effects the versions that have the dlls that You have enumerated linked into them or their kplugins.

You can use programs such as filealyzer to find out/check which program/dll needs which dll.


p.s. The problem is that there is no real way we can help users that have partially outdated systems or have systems with missing or broken dll.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/26/2011 10:37PM by guenter.

Guenter, to leave it clear, is this one:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=5638

The same distributables you posted, but SP1. If they are not SP1, don't work, as I said in my previous post.

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JohnHell
Guenter, to leave it clear, is this one:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=5638

The same distributables you posted, but SP1. If they are not SP1, don't work, as I said in my previous post.

Thx for correcting me.


Sorry that I did not read Your message properly enough.