Have now read the whole page
(see above,
http://lumpics.ru/k-meleon/ )
Major pity - they are only showing the obvious main menus, but didn't mention or
discover any of the hidden tricks or gems
Of course, no wonder, how could they? It's all hidden...
Now I dimly remember... KM-Pro comes with tons of pre-installed skins, but if I recall correctly only 1 of them had the
Privacy Toolbar switched on? Every new user seems to overlook this absolutely special feature, as in official builds too
Correction: not all official builds have the PrivBar OFF by default, in some it's already ON
And right-clicks on buttons!! Another specialty, most buttons have a handy options menu on right-click, and they can be freely chosen by users too (in toolbars.cfg again). But no KM-beginner ever realizes this, just because KM-buttons with menus have no arrow at the side, to save space....
And the "search like Opera" method in the urlbar, which many users seem to like, but no one discovers it's possible in KM too, and how (
searching with keywords, e.g. "g" for google)...
And shared IE-
Favorites (no import, just shared simultaneously)...
And the
existence of macros and KM-extensions, plenty in the forum and on kmext.sf.net, which users can install. And partly customize themselves if they really want - but no one is aware of it. New users and reviewers all seem convinced browsers can only be extended with complex xpi-addons, but with this type KM still has difficulties.
And the
background for toolbars can very easily be customized with own images or grapics or just a nicer color, but in official builds that's disabled by default. And none of the default skins contains any remotely nice pic anyway....
(Note: for quick testing have attached a little beige-golden background and a few other examples to this post, just place one as 'back.bmp' in your current skin folder. Hit F2>GUI (on top) and check "Display toolbar background", then restart)
Not a really hidden function, just off by default now and hard to find:
K-Meleon also has a main
Menu line on top available. It's a toolbar like all others, and can be toggled on/off by right-clicking in a free toolbar space, or in View>Toolbars. In Firefox that menuline is off by default too, but there the menu shows up when holding the ALT-key. The prob: in KM that key alone does nothing. Therefore some people at first glance assume this top menu wouldn't exist at all.
Here's a little alternative
trick: you can keep the Menu bar permanently visible, but with a width of only a few millimeters! How: just pull another toolbar over it from the right side, so that this toolbar covers most of the menu bar. Except a little bit of its beginning.
Another prob if menu bar is disabled: some functions are only accessible in the "File" menu, which exists only in that top menu. People can't find those functions while that toolbar is off. In the past that included the offline-toggle, in newer builds only the Open-local-file function (alternative: keyboard shortcut CTRL+O). And a bunch of macros insert their functions only in the "File" menu too (you can change almost all menu positions yourself, but only by editing files, not by drag-drop)
Or some tips from here:
http://kmeleonbrowser.org/wiki/faq#Misc
etc. ....
K-Meleon is just a browser that definitely needs a little beginner guide
Just where, and how...? Don't know either
It's really no wonder reviewers never discover such stuff either. But longer reviews such as this one again (lumpics) would be a great place to give people hints about important KM basics.
(_HowTo_ a few beginner tips)
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/30/2019 06:26AM by siria.