How can I get text on the favorites bar? Also, is there any way to make my backspace key take me to the previous page? Love the no pop-ups feature. Thanks, John

John,

You can make the backspace key function so as to take you to the previous page BUT...

K-Meleon can't differentiate from a backspace in a text field and in general so if you ever use backspace while typing text, you'll go back a page. If you still want to try it, let us know and we can post the code for that.

Andrew

Hello Andrew,
I'll just use the back arrow for a previous page. I am still curious about text in the favorites bar. When I add the favorites tool bar, I get a lot of folder icons that all look the same. Too confusing.
Thanks, John

John,

If you don't get an answer to your Favorites question here, you might post to the developers list. I'm not that familiar with the Favorites as I don't use that feature.

Andrew

when i enable my favorite toolbar, i get buttons with the icon i have set for IE shortcuts, followed by the name of each shortcut in the 'links' directory...

...for whatever that's worth. i don't normally use it, either.

After the unnamed folders, I have several big e icons. I have trouble keeping icons in IE. They will set for a while and then turn into big e icons. This happens when I run scan disk or defrag sometimes, or change some settings. I like this browser for some of it's functions, like password manager. Can't get IE to do that. I don't see any speed change between this and IE. I am running on ADSL modem, so maybe that's why I don't see a difference. Do you think this browser will ever support Yahoo companion? Also, I can't make history button work.
Thanks, John

The favorites bar problem is a known bug on Win NT/2K/XP

Hey scratch,
Now it's a known problem on W-95 too. : ) Anyone know why the history button won't work on K- Meleon?
Thanks, John

John,

What history button? On the toolbar buttons themselves?

Andrew

Hi Andrew,
Yes, the history button on the tool bar does nothing when I click it. This is a pretty good browser, but I don't see a speed increase over IE. The pages seem to load a little different, but if anything, a little slower. Someone said this is faster than mozilla. Isn't that what IE uses? Of coarse, I have tweaked IE for adsl and don't know where to go to tweak this browser. Keep in mind, I'm just a wannabe geek. : )
Thanks, John

IE doesn't use the mozilla engine... at one time, it was based on Mosaic, but i have no idea if that's still much the case or not... the netscape browsers are based on mozilla. i agree, i find that k-meleon is about on par with IE most of the time, speed-wise, but it probably depends a lot on what you're doing, exactly... as for a history button on the toolbar - i thought there wasn't one by default? you mean with the sundial icon, or something else? if you right-click or click-and-hold the back button, you'll get the recent history, which is all that comes with k-meleon at the moment. better history functionality is in the works, though.

John,

What version of K-Meleon are you using?

Andrew

Hello,
My mistake on the history button. I don't know what I was thinking. I need to slow down, take a deep breath, and not surf the net so fast.
Why does this browser use so much memory? I only have 48 megs. Pitiful, ain't it?
Thanks, John

John, considering alternatives this is best bang for buck you can get for your computer. Mozillas rendering engine is superior to any other out there, including IE, Opera and such. It's bugged in places, but its evolving more rapidly than others. In relatively small package you do get best rendering you can have at this time.

...and, as has been pointed out many times, IE is somewhat deceptive in it's apparent use of resources, since a certain amount of it's footprint falls into the 'system' category...