Hi there,

Using windows what other browsers would you smart people have on your machines, besides IE?

Thanks!

Doc.



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I am too lazy to take IE off my computer. My only browser in use is K-Meleon. I have 1.1.6 for testing and 1.5.2 and 1.5.3 for general use. I have found no problems with 1.5.3 so I will likely remove 1.5.2 soon.

I use K-Meleon as my main browser, I have IE7 which I try not to use because of it's inherent security risks.

For a 2nd browser I use SWare Iron, it's based on Google chrome technology, I find this to be light on resources also.

Thanks for sharing your practical tested views!

Doc.

KM with K black skin becomes heavy?

Doc.

What are accelerators?

Why doesnt the memory usage or Cache size icon move?

Do I need to master Linux to use KM in windows.......coz I have a linux geeker patient who could customize KM to my needs??

I don't understand that. K-Meleon is Windows based not Linux based.

I was die-hard Opera user for a very long time. I used Kmeleon as a backup if a site did not display correctly. After I felt Opera became a bit bloated I switched to KM full time. Maybe 2 years ago now. I have FF and IE available, but rarely use them. KM seems so light and simple now that the other browsers quite frankly all seem bloated. Just my opinion I suppose, as they have a much larger user base.

MrWoo

KmLite 1.1.2 updated to Gecko 1.8.1.21

I'll keep using KMLite as long as I can keep updating Gecko. Shame Al gave it up.

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eDOC786
Do I need to master Linux to use KM in windows.......coz I have a linux geeker patient who could customize KM to my needs??

Read Fred's posts, he, alain and others swear that K-Meleon also makes a good constantly improving show on NIX under wine.

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Davep
KmLite 1.1.2 updated to Gecko 1.8.1.21
Shame Al gave it up.

A shame that he did not support the dev team - but tried to make a one man show.

p.s. frankly, all have private chores impossible to muster time´constantly.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/21/2009 07:28AM by guenter.

Ok thanks for the explanation.

Doc.

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Paul
I use K-Meleon as my main browser, I have IE7 which I try not to use because of it's inherent security risks.

For a 2nd browser I use SWare Iron, it's based on Google chrome technology, I find this to be light on resources also.

Ditto, plus OperaTor (Portable Opera + Tor anonymizing proxy), The World Browser (portable IE shell), and Orca (latest gecko engine full blown browser) -- you can tell I like variety.

OperaTor: http://archetwist.com/opera/operator

The World Browser: http://www.ioage.com/en/

Orca: http://www.orcabrowser.com/

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Have been using SeaMonkey beta version 3.1b2 since I bought a Vista operating system. K-M gets along in Vista, but seemingly, not as happily as in XP. Still like K-M for some things, but this newer SeaMonkey works very smoothly.

Hmm, I'm going to have to disagree about Opera being bloated, although it doesn't feel as light as K-Meleon. I use Opera for heavy duty browsing, such as adult sites, and sites with a lot of javascript (e.g. digg). Opera seems more stable, and I like its inbuilt session manager and tab preview features.

I also have Google Chrome installed, although that's more of a novelty. It's even faster at loading javascript than Opera (Slashdot is a breeze with Chrome), but it does feel bloated.

I have Firefox installed for visitors, since I locked down IE impossibly .

And I use K-Meleon for ordinary browsing. It's my most used application.

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Ed L.
Hmm, I'm going to have to disagree about Opera being bloated, although it doesn't feel as light as K-Meleon.

I have had a few conversations on this topic.It is useful to define 'bloated'. Most times bloated is referred to as an over-fat slow hunk o junk, much like Nero has become the last few years, or adobe.

The bloated I think many, but certainly I, refer to is that is has all the blades of a swiss army knife built in, and I just want a jack knife. So bloated as in a 'Suite' instead of 'just a browser'. Over at wilders, I merrily concede to some users that it is not bloated for them, because they use a large majority of the components in it's 'suite', like email client etc.

Opera is certainly a fine browser. If they had a version that was just a browser without all the bells and whistles, I would probably still use it as my primary. Or, now what KM has become, maybe not.

MrWoo.

What browsers do you smart people keep for XP & Vista besides IE?

Doc.

Not smart, no nerd, nor dev, but 57 y.o. user. Hope I may add some $ 0.01 too.

Depends IMHO what You want to do. & current development situation.
No browser is ideal for everything, for most jobs several good alternatives exist.

Iron (Google chrome code but not phoning home): Script heavy pages .
Firefox: many useful extensions (slow starter, surfing speed +/- = k-meleon).
Opera or SeaMonkey: / include mail, news. The later also homepage design.
Lunascape5: can use 3 of 4 Windows platform browsing engines to view pages (web design help).


Some real specialist browsers: Songbird: music, Balloon: geography, Fora-PR: translation, linguistic data.

IE: access to MS pages. I needed it to download my first real browser!

p.s. I started to use K-Meleon 2001, set as default 2003, after that I always have had other browsers installed for odd jobs. K-Meleon had minor glitches on my German Vista premium home.

Survived all OS: ME/2000/XP:home&pro/Vista/Win7B.
I even totally overcame the Vista problems! My solution I de-installed Vista.



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guenter


I even totally overcame the Vista problems! My solution I de-installed Vista.

I guess we can all agree with ....Uninstalling Vista can cure a lot of problems


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guenter

IE: access to MS pages. I needed it to download my first real browser!

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Ahh, thank you guenter, that is a very valid point! IE does have a use

hehhehe:O


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guenter
Not smart, no nerd, nor dev, but 57 y.o. user. Hope I may add some $ 0.01 too.

Depends IMHO what You want to do. & current development situation.
No browser is ideal for everything, for most jobs several good alternatives exist.

Iron (Google chrome code but not phoning home): Script heavy pages .
Firefox: many useful extensions (slow starter, surfing speed +/- = k-meleon).
Opera or SeaMonkey: / include mail, news. The later also homepage design.
Lunascape5: can use 3 of 4 Windows platform browsing engines to view pages (web design help).


Some real specialist browsers: Songbird: music, Balloon: geography, Fora-PR: translation, linguistic data.

IE: access to MS pages. I needed it to download my first real browser!

p.s. I started to use K-Meleon 2001, set as default 2003, after that I always have had other browsers installed for odd jobs. K-Meleon had minor glitches on my German Vista premium home.

Survived all OS: ME/2000/XP:home&pro/Vista/Win7B.
I even totally overcame the Vista problems! My solution I de-installed Vista.

Woh very versatile approach........

Does k-meleon works good with Vista as with XP?

Thanks.

Doc.

I had no problems with it in vista on my laptop. I could have used a different browser because I have more RAM and a faster cpu but I am not leaving KM just because I have those things.

Me too have 4 gigs of ram & CPU 3.6 GHZ.

So K-meleon shall work fine with vista too on my notebook?

Reeko you spent a thousand bucks on Ext CS4 woh rich man..

Regards,

Doc.

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eDOC786
Me too have 4 gigs of ram & CPU 3.6 GHZ.

So K-meleon shall work fine with vista too on my notebook?

Reeko you spent a thousand bucks on Ext CS4 woh rich man..

Regards,

Used copy of CS2 and got it for under $50.

Reeko since I just did a fresh install of Vista office 2007 & updates after a low level format..........

I have a few queries........

1. Can I install k-meleon on it?

2. Does k-meleon updates automatically?

Thanks!

Doc.

1. You should be able to.

2. I stuck with KM 1.5.0 for the longest time and it asked me to upgade it when it started sometimes. So you do get notified but updates are not automatic

Thanks Reeko.

Updates are similar to windows update alerts....correct?

Doc.

you just get a popup when you first start k-meleon. it just got updated so it will be awhile until it happens again.

K-Meleon update plugin checks updates once a week. You can download if You want to update.

p.s. Most here AFAIK do not want semi-automatik updates like Firefox.
The plugin can be shut down.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/23/2009 07:10AM by guenter.