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laffin_boy
Here’s what I had in Opera and what I hope to find in KM: A browser is nothing more than a program that will retrieve and display webpages from hyperlinks. In Opera I could open ANY KIND OF A LINK - in page hyperlink, bookmark, search of selected text, etc, etc - and I had the option, in the moment, to choose HOW to open that link for each case. To reuse the same tab I just clicked on the link. To open the link in a new active tab I use the SHIFT key modifier and to open the link in a new background tab I use the CTRL key modifier. In other words I had a consistent, logical & repeatable configuration.
Sure, most of that can be done in K-Meleon, it's just a matter of getting acquainted with it. There are bound to be differences between Opera and K-Meleon. In K-Meleon, Ctrl+Left_Click will open the link in a new foreground tab. Ctrl+Right_Click will open it in a new background tab. And as you would expect, just left-clicking the link will open it in the same tab.
This is perfectly consistent and repeatable in K-Meleon; whether it's logical, however, depends on one's point of view, as well as one's experience with other browsers. These were the same key combinations I used in Firefox, which is understandable, since K-Meleon is based largely on products from Mozilla, the developers of Firefox. I don't know much about Opera, but in Vivaldi, which purports to be a resurrection of the old Opera, Shift+Left_Click opened the link in a new foreground tab. Doing the same thing in K-Meleon will open it in a new browser window.
The only thing lacking in K-Meleon is the ability to use those key combinations randomly with bookmarks without having to predefine a specific behavior. That was possible in Firefox, but K-Meleon is not a clone of Firefox. KM's main focus is keeping the browser customizable, light and fast. I can tell by looking at my task manager that it consumes far less memory than the mainstream browsers. It is by far the fastest browser I've ever used, both for launching and for loading websites, and I've customized the hell out of it by now.
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Gerry
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/16/2016 03:30PM by foliator.