osted by: George Hall (IP Logged)
Date: June 02, 2008 05:29PM
The reason for the K-Meleon 1.5.0b2 Homepage bug is there is a bug in kmprefs in embed.jar and there is a bug in i10n.js.

The bug can be fixed by replacing the K-Meleon 1.5.0b2 kmprefs in embed.jar with the K-Meleon 1.5.0beta kmprefs in embed.jar from K-Meleon 1.5.0beta.

i10n.js can be fixed by adding pref("kmeleon.general.ho"resource:///readme.html"); to it

Under K-Meleon 1.5.0beta i10n.js has these values

/********************************************************************************************************/
// Locale default pref for k-meleon
/********************************************************************************************************/
pref("general.useragent.locale", "en-US");
pref("general.useragent.contentlocale", "US");

pref("kmeleon.general.homePage", "resource:///readme.html");

Under K-Meleon 1.5.0b2 i10n.js has these values

/********************************************************************************************************/
// Locale default pref for k-meleon
/********************************************************************************************************/
pref("general.useragent.locale", "en-US");
pref("general.useragent.contentlocale", "US");

so simply adding pref("kmeleon.general.homePage", "resource:///readme.html");
will display the file readme.html instead of a blank page.

Unless you fix kmprefs the file readme.html is the only page that will be displayed every time as the homepage even after change the homepage to something else.

I found out the K-Meleon 1.5.0b2 kmprefs problem by extracting kmprefs from embed.jar for both K-Meleon 1.5.0beta and K-Meleon 1.5.0b2.

And I created kmprefs.jar for both K-Meleon 1.5.0beta and K-Meleon 1.5.0b2.

Then I replaced the K-Meleon 1.5.0b2 kmprefs.jar in its chrome folder with the K-Meleon 1.5.0beta kmprefs.jar in its chrome folder.

And then the homepage bug was gone.

See here.

A perhaps too simple fix for my homepage and source editor problems was to take the lines from my alpha version and put them in my user.js in the beta version. My user .js has --

user_pref("kmeleon.general.homePage", "http://www.perigee.net/";
user_pref("kmeleon.general.sourceCommand", "C:\\Program Files\\Visicom Media\\AceHTML 5 Freeware\\acehtml.exe");
user_pref("kmeleon.general.sourceEnabled", true);

It is not fancy, but it works.