I'm a new user to k-meleon and I'm trying it to find out, if I can replace firefox with it. But I keep noticing things I got used to in firefox.

first:
I wonder how easy it is to install firefox addons under k-meleon, there are a couple extensions I really miss when using k-meleon.

1. webdeveloper toolbar (http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/)
2. download statusbar (http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/)
3. linkification (http://yellow5.us/firefox/linkification/)

can I make these work and more important how?

second:
I can't seem to copy the way tabs and popups openend in firefox for me. This is how I had it working in firefox.

1. middle mouse button on the layer toolbar should open last closed layer
2. links inside a domain openend in the same page and links to an other domain opened in a new tab.
3. middle clicking a link opens in a new tab in the background.

In k-meleon when I'm on http://tweakers.net/ and click the link http://gathering.tweakers.net/ it opens the link in a new tab, I don't want this to happen, because this is in the same domain.

First: To install is no problem. The problem is some adons simply do not work.

You have a fair chance with SeaMonkey extensions and some chance with FFox extensions. You have no chance if the extensions manipulate visible XUL (download statusbar), or need Firefox bookmarks manager or some other chrome that k-meleon either does not have or that competes with k-meleon's native widgets.

Install Procedure:
1.) Unpack xpi (it is a zip with another name).
2.) Distribute found items to the folders where they belong
(chrome to chrome, components to components ... ).
3.) Create entries for the new chrome items in installed-chrome.txt.
4.) Delete: chrome.rdf, overlays.rdf and stylesheets.rdf in folder chrome so that K-Meleon creates new ones with the new entries that he finds in installed-chrome.txt.
5.) Delete: compreg.dat and xpti.dat in components folder if You added any new .xpt. K-Meleon creates new ones with new entries for all xpt.
6.) Create a macro that calls the startup chrome of the extension and in some cases create macros that hand over params.

Example macro code: 1.02 macros.cfg:

# - XUL/chrome and Extensions 460
# - Aggreg8 (RSS Feed Aggregator) 485
# - mtypes (MIME Type Editor) 540

and the macros calling masterpass and certificates XUL in pippki.jar.
Some more examples are in 0.9.13 & in K-Ninja.


second: I do not know enough about Firefox.

p. s. Firefox bookmarks manager can be made usable and used - but when used once during a session it does not release the bookmarks.html any more - result k-meleon can not add bookmarks during that session.

BTW. thx for the theme/skin.

Hi,

- For "second" 3. (Middle click open in background layer) look this thread:
Re: links in background

- For "1. middle mouse button on the layer toolbar should open last closed layer" you can doing this with CTRL+ALT+Z (Right click on layer, option: "Open last closed") or you can add this lines (in before location; Edit -> Configurations -> Preferences -> Accelerators):

# Alt-middle-click open last closed layer:
%ifplugin macros & layers
ALT MButton = macros(OpenClosed)
%endif

With this code you can open last closed layer using ALT+Middle mouse button.
You can change ALT for CTRL or SHIFT as you like.

Bye.

K-Meleon in Spanish



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/03/2007 11:07PM by desga2.