How to update K-Meleon to a new version:
So far KM-Goanna versions are all portable, and everything is inside the program folder. And rather shattered inside it, that's the prob.
There are various ways, but what most of us here do, and is safest:
You need
2 complete, independant folders, one for each version: old and new. Then copy over the files you customized, one by one, and check for some days or weeks if really everything is complete and working. Then you don't need the old folder anymore.
How you go about getting 2 complete folders is just personal preference. For example you could just unzip the new version into a new folder. Then copy over ALL your own stuff manually.
OR you could make a full copy of the old folder, then unzip the NEW version over the old original folder. This easier method saves you a lot of manual copying, only a few modified files will be overwritten, if any.
Etc. There are minor differences, with various pros and cons for each method, but what really matters is only to
keep a FULL COPY of the old K-Meleon folder for a while.
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Where to find your stuff:
The profiles folder of course, simply complete.
Your skin folder, if you have created your own one already? If not, toolbars.cfg is tricky, located in various places. Edit>Configuration>Toolbars will show *which* of the various toolbars.cfg is your current one in use.
Custom toolbars and buttons usually come with own icons too, those are among the native ones in skins/shared and skins/default
Find the files you dropped additionally into the macros folder. Most user macros have own names, but attention for this trap: a few user-macros have the same name as the original ones and accidental overwrites can happen (useragent.kmm, search.kmm, perhaps another)
Look if you have additions in the extensions folder.
Then just use the new version for awhile and look out for missing stuff.
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A general tip especially for customized skins or buttons:
Make your
own skin folder, with a new name, then no worries anymore about possible accidental overwritings in the future.
Just copy the skin folder you're currently using, give it a nice new name, make sure you also copy your modified
toolbars.cfg inside it (if not found, try K-Meleon/browser/defaults/settings/toolbars.cfg). Now just choose this "new skin" in F2>GUI and restart.
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Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 05/18/2018 01:07AM by siria.