Whish we could rename KM74gre31 into KM75beta1 :cool:

Muchas gracias por tu rápida respuesta, JohnHell, ahora ya lo tengo claro.
Saludos.
Luys.
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Thank you very much for your quick response, JohnHell, now I know what the differences are.
Greetings.
Luys.

Dorian: Please take a look at http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/flyspray/index.php?do=details&task_id=3 and try to fix it. Thanks in advance.

Thanks you very much for new version, this a great software

Thanks you for your contribution.

Greetings

Greetings,

I had been using version 74 beta 3, and just now decided to download this version, as it seems to be an official release. With the beta 3 I was having a problem with bookmarks, and with Guenter's help I fixed it temporarily. Please see my post at:
http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?8,127127,127713#msg-127713

Anyway, I'm now seeing this same problem where when I save a bookmark, it saves only the name of the site and not the URL. Guenter's temporary fix for beta 3 was to move the msv*80.dll files from release 1.6 into the main K-meleon directory. I tried that again with this official release version, but unfortunately it didn't fix the problem this time.

Is anyone else having the problem that URL is not being saved with bookmark? I'm using Windows XP, SP3.

Thank-you for your help, and I hope this is the right thread to be asking this question.

Seems a serious bug yet in KM74.0, here too:
http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?3,128382

Now you only mention the msv-dlls, but your own link said to copy over the bookmarks.dll from 1.6 into kplugins (the msv-dlls are only helper files for this old bookmarks.dll, probably only necessary if not already in some global windows folder somewhere)

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I tried that again with this official release version, but unfortunately it didn't fix the problem this time.

You only did part off what You did for 74.b3. The workaround uses the bookmarks.dll from 1.6 or 1.7 and that file needs the msv*80.dll as helper file(s).

Anyway AFAIR there is a problem when an empty bookmarks file is used, no bookmarks.html or a write prtected bookmarks exists. IMHO Dorian must have
read that report.

Untill version 1.6/1.7 K-Meleon bookmarks plugin issued a warning and started a new bookmarks.html. Now no warning and problems.

No siria, it is IMHO no serious bug.

How often do You have no or a write protected bookmarks.html?

Every once in a blue moon.



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guenter, you keep telling that the whole bookmarks.html wouldn't get stored, didn't exist at all or were write-protected.

But at least 3 users have now said that their new TITLES of the bookmarks do get saved, just not the URL. That sounds to me that their bookmarks.html IS changed and stored, only incomplete.

Perhaps 2 different bugs? There should be more testers.

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guenter, you keep telling that the whole bookmarks.html wouldn't get stored, didn't exist at all or were write-protected.

But at least 3 users have now said that their new TITLES of the bookmarks do get saved, just not the URL. That sounds to me that their bookmarks.html IS changed and stored, only incomplete.

Perhaps 2 different bugs? There should be more testers.

I keep telling what tests I did to reproduce the alleged bugg.

XP SP3 / It might be system specific like that I have no spellckeck.

I deleted bookmarks.html and I later write protected it intentionally. Then in both I tried to bookmark. The next new bookmark does not get stored on my machine. No real alarm, no new file is started.

We probably could skip write protect as no fix possible.

But a somehow lost bookmarks.html (e.g. after a skandisk run) must

a.) raise a warning that no bookmarks.html was found

b.) start a new bookmarks.html to store the next bookmark.

Why a.) The user may want to investigate where the old html is. Locate it or use a backup. Users rarely delete this file.

Why b.) If the user deleted it intentionally a new one must be started automtically.

In both cases (which rarely happen in real live) the plugin makes problems.

And it is easy enough to test on Your Vista machine for Vista. It would IMHO
save Dorian's time, if we had a test or two for each Windows, so he does not have to start a virtual machine with it. It probably does not cause problems on his machine's OS.

No I think it is the same bug or a related problem.

Thank-you for your quick response on this. Yes, you're right I forgot to move the version 1.6 bookmarks.dll file into kplugins folder. Once I did that then bookmarks function properly (URL is saved along with title of page).

I will note that when I completely uninstall K-Meleon from my machine, including preferences/profile, then re-install this newest version 74 release, then I experience this bug of URL not being saved in a new bookmark. This happens when I have no existing bookmarks.html, and it just opens the default basically empty one in K-Meleon subdirectory Profiles/s04fykym.default.
But also, when I copy my existing bookmarks.html into this subdirectory, I also experience the bug. So, it doesn't seem to be related to whether the bookmarks.html file exists or not beforehand.

Is this bug only found on Windows XP SP-3 machines? Will this have to be something I need to do every time I download a new version of K-Meleon?

Thank-you for your kind assistance.
-Eric

I am glad You found out why. Yes. It can be only for us XP users. We two will see when more tests results from newer versions are posted.

IMHO. Do not uninstall completely.*.) New versions can use older profiles. With some help from us they can use them way back to the 1.5 and earlier versions. Dorian knitts them that way. & he does not invent a new wheel for each version.
I hope.

p.s. *.) I always install as portable. And I start a new version in the default way once. I look for some old bugs... After that I prepare the new km for my normal uses. I copy my favorite skin, skins/default/... and favorite user defined macros over. And then I copy all of the most recent profile into the once test & used brand new profile. That gives me my settings, bookmarks, hotlist, passwords and my Firefox add-ons in ./used_profile/extensions and macros. That is all I want. :cool:

And I experience no bug if I copy bookmarks.html to a new place for use.
Please check whether it is protected ... at Your PC...

Greetings to the west coast from far east Germany.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/09/2014 05:53PM by guenter.

I can see that the spanish locale of bookmarks is bugged because of something I said (and corrected after). So the spanish locale has this bug for sure.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/09/2014 11:14PM by Dorian.

Hi Dorian -

Not sure if this is the best place, but...

I've uncovered a couple of bugs, posted in the "Bugs" forum and put up on Flyspray. FS#2 is really serious, as I can't work on FS#7 until it's fixed.

However, with 74-31 on its way, maybe FS#2 doesn't matter?

BUt I can't hold my breath for very long

Gordon.

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Thank you for your effortts, but both Beta 164 (even portable) neither version 74 works in Windows 98 and Windows 2000, even loading in them vcredist.exe and the dll. you say (Windows 2000 Pro Pack 4 just includes it.)

This is upsetting, since many of us still use to run old wonderful harware P 2 and P 3, and K-Meleon 1.5 had been as a useful tool, now outdated.

...He put me on the spoor to a German Win 2000 update past SP 4. The server version of Win 2000 got MS updates longer.

OK, it's a month old, sorry I never spotted it before.

1.6x and older would run natively on W2K SP4 Rollup 1. Youse must have the Rollup 1. Be careful and keep an eye on it, because it would get pushed out of the way by some other installs/upgrades, and needs to be reinstalled. W2K SP4 Rollup 1 was the best ever of MS' offerings, but it did have a couple of annoyances... :O

And it helps to put in VC2008, '09 and '10 as well, they are really simple to install, not like in XP++ .

Gordon.

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1.6 works without any magic, except for flash requirements.

I don't have installed the Rollup (shit by MS), but what K-meleon 74 needs are kernel extenders, not the latest Rollup Hotfix, believe me.

You maybe have installed the kernel extenders, sometimes called rollup by guys like BlackWingCat, but his releases aren't the actual Rollup by Microsoft.

I'll go beyond, VC++10 can't be installed on Windows 2000 unless modified installers. You need to place the files manually.



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And it helps to put in VC2008, '09 and '10 as well, they are really simple to install,

Maybe VC 8 and VC 9 but not VC 10 build apps.

For 2000 You'd need updates past the last update by MS just like JohnHell wrote.

BlackWingCat's, OldCigarettes, ... updates/Extenders are not awailable in German.



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Maybe VC 8 and VC 9 but not VC 10 build apps.

For 2000 You'd need updates past the last update by MS just like JohnHell wrote.

I never actually "installed" any of those. Just find the relevant msvcrxxx.dll and (IIRC!) msvcpxxx.dll, then drop them into the .\windows folder, was it the \System32? :s Over 2 years ago... The box developed Alzheimer's in 2012, the CPU I think, and I couldn't find a new one with W2K drivers, so...

But no actual "install". I was never interested in building apps, just running them. And I did have a drama when Rollup 1 got over-written with one app install, and a whole heap of other apps crashed! I was running a lot of apps which said they needed XP/Vista, and getting better mileage out of them!

I see where JohnHell is coming from. I don't think Km74 would have run on W2K at any stage no matter what VC updates you dropped in. Definitely a Kernel Extender would be needed.

Gordon.

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Understanding the scope of the problem is the first step on the path to true panic. [Florence Ambrose, "Freefall" 01372 January 22, 2007 http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1400/fv01372.htm]