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Hi All
Know I rerported this before and ther may have been an answer but cantfind any mention (by searhing here) so will try again
using K-Mel 1.62 (fresh installed after system failed) I have no menu toolbar icons and only minimal menu functions i.e. Tools only has privacy, bookmarks & sessions are missing totally
KM1.6 is much outdated, should be used only if the new version KM74 doesn't work an a very old system, that is on win98 (needs kernelEx for 1.6) and win2000 (can run 74 with dll-wrappers or such tricks). And even on those old systems better install the unofficial version 1.6beta2.6 by JamesD, it has far less bugs.
Anyway, if you do need 1.6 and it has such probs, that vcredist thing must be installed again: VS2005. The link is on the download page below 1.6beta
I'll give that a go
It was so long since I set up the old 1.6, I may have forgotten that gem
I do prefer K-Mel 74 but it runs a bit slow (on some sites and at odd times) not to mention that for a while I could not open 74 from a file or link
Although I worked out a solution to that and can run either 1.6 or 74 with a simple change (add or remove ";" from an ini)
It is the adverts of the sites that make all browsers slower.
Several adv. blockers available from the firefox addon site.
Adblock plus as full fledged addon is a bit heavy but BluHell Firewall is lighter and mostly works.
I run FirefoxESR 31 and K-Meleon 74 under the same conditions (one and the same ad filter for both) and I can't see any difference in speed.
ESR 31 might have a little faster JS engine.
Anyway I can see on what browsers are waiting in the stats bar.:O
It is add mongers' pages/data.
p.s. What I 'd like to have was an addblocker like BluHell but that can be edited via a user interface.
I dont know about firefox as my only FF is running on Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) so hard to compare browsers accross platforms (even if they are both on same PC)
My compare was between K-Mel's all using the same settings (AFAP)
K-Mel Ver Calc Store Render Score HTML5 Acid3
1.6.0 beta2 37.24 70.62 4.00 111.86 156/555 98
Twin (1.6.0) 55.35 65.02 5.07 125.44 156/555 98
Twin (1.7.0) 35.31 75.85 7.42 118.58 172/555 99
1.6.0 beta2.5 46.02 34.42 3.46 83.90 156/555 98
1.6.0 beta2.6 Crashed on startup
Beta 74 (Raw) 9.31 16.00 18.29 43.60 421/555 100
Beta 74 (Conf) 9.48 15.52 17.36 42.36 420/555 100
Final 74.0 19.50 150.31 17.66 187.47 411/555 100
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missing menus & sessions
Posted by:
Grizz
Date: October 11, 2014 10:39AM
Hi All
Know I rerported this before and ther may have been an answer but cantfind any mention (by searhing here) so will try again
using K-Mel 1.62 (fresh installed after system failed) I have no menu toolbar icons and only minimal menu functions i.e. Tools only has privacy, bookmarks & sessions are missing totally
Re: missing menus & sessions
Posted by:
siria
Date: October 11, 2014 11:37AM
KM1.6 is much outdated, should be used only if the new version KM74 doesn't work an a very old system, that is on win98 (needs kernelEx for 1.6) and win2000 (can run 74 with dll-wrappers or such tricks). And even on those old systems better install the unofficial version 1.6beta2.6 by JamesD, it has far less bugs.
Anyway, if you do need 1.6 and it has such probs, that vcredist thing must be installed again: VS2005. The link is on the download page below 1.6beta
Re: missing menus & sessions
Posted by:
Grizz
Date: October 24, 2014 09:26PM
I'll give that a go
It was so long since I set up the old 1.6, I may have forgotten that gem
I do prefer K-Mel 74 but it runs a bit slow (on some sites and at odd times) not to mention that for a while I could not open 74 from a file or link
Although I worked out a solution to that and can run either 1.6 or 74 with a simple change (add or remove ";" from an ini)
Re: missing menus & sessions
Posted by:
guenter
Date: October 25, 2014 08:32AM
Quote
Grizz
I do prefer K-Mel 74 but it runs a bit slow (on some sites and at odd times) not to mention that for a while I could not open 74 from a file or link
It is the adverts of the sites that make all browsers slower.
Several adv. blockers available from the firefox addon site.
Adblock plus as full fledged addon is a bit heavy but BluHell Firewall is lighter and mostly works.
Re: missing menus & sessions
Posted by:
Yogi
Date: October 25, 2014 09:20AM
Does Firefox run faster under same conditions? You could test with a portable version.Quote
Grizz
I do prefer K-Mel 74 but it runs a bit slow (on some sites and at odd times)
I run FirefoxESR 31 and K-Meleon 74 under the same conditions (one and the same ad filter for both) and I can't see any difference in speed.
Re: missing menus & sessions
Posted by:
guenter
Date: October 25, 2014 10:28AM
Quote
Yogi
Does Firefox run faster under same conditions? You could test with a portable version.Quote
Grizz
I do prefer K-Mel 74 but it runs a bit slow (on some sites and at odd times)
I run FirefoxESR 31 and K-Meleon 74 under the same conditions (one and the same ad filter for both) and I can't see any difference in speed.
ESR 31 might have a little faster JS engine.
Anyway I can see on what browsers are waiting in the stats bar.:O
It is add mongers' pages/data.
p.s. What I 'd like to have was an addblocker like BluHell but that can be edited via a user interface.
Re: missing menus & sessions
Posted by:
Grizz
Date: October 25, 2014 11:14AM
I dont know about firefox as my only FF is running on Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) so hard to compare browsers accross platforms (even if they are both on same PC)
My compare was between K-Mel's all using the same settings (AFAP)
K-Mel Ver Calc Store Render Score HTML5 Acid3
1.6.0 beta2 37.24 70.62 4.00 111.86 156/555 98
Twin (1.6.0) 55.35 65.02 5.07 125.44 156/555 98
Twin (1.7.0) 35.31 75.85 7.42 118.58 172/555 99
1.6.0 beta2.5 46.02 34.42 3.46 83.90 156/555 98
1.6.0 beta2.6 Crashed on startup
Beta 74 (Raw) 9.31 16.00 18.29 43.60 421/555 100
Beta 74 (Conf) 9.48 15.52 17.36 42.36 420/555 100
Final 74.0 19.50 150.31 17.66 187.47 411/555 100
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