@kko: I'll create one as soon as I have some time left (need to find an example, and so on), but I'm afraid it might take several days, I'm way to busy currently... :-(

What info do you need? When clicking on mpeg-links I'm prompted if I want to Open/Save/Cancel, with wmv-links there's no such prompt (it depends on the mime-type, if the file is to be downloaded there is a prompt, but not when it is to be played - but there should be one, just like with mpeg or avi. adding wmv to mime types to be downloaded as described somewhere here has no effect).

@ra I do not think that this is a K-Meleon problem.

When You set play with default content handler - Windows Media Player or System should prompt You whether You want to play or download

@ra: This is a very specific problem, which may take us some posts to discuss it. I just don't want to do that in this 'general' K-Meleon 1.5a1 thread. Come over here when you've time. It's not urgent.

Thanks.

I don't know if this is a bug, but when I click an external link another K-Meleon session is started, instead of opening a new tab within the current session.

@ dabiank

I think that may be controlled by the code the web site presents. In my surfing I have found that some links open in the same window and others will start a new window. If you will give us the site that is doing the new window for you maybe I can tell by looking at their source code.

The HTML tag target="_blank" creates new windows - You can alter this behavior to open new tab/layer in advanced settings of 1.1.x.



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dabiank
I don't know if this is a bug, but when I click an external link another K-Meleon session is started, instead of opening a new tab within the current session.

Am I right that you are talking about "URLs passed from external applications" (a Window Diversion setting)? Can you tell us a bit more about your settings? (Since that is working for me.)

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I don't know if this is a bug, but when I click an external link another K-Meleon session is started, instead of opening a new tab within the current session.

Am I right that you are talking about "URLs passed from external applications" (a Window Diversion setting)? Can you tell us a bit more about your settings? (Since that is working for me.)

You're right, sorry for the confusion... and thanx for your help...

I have created two temporaty macros to use with 1.5a1 version until the final preferences code is ready. One is for setting cache, disk and memory, size and the second is to toggle prefetch on or off.

Prefetch came from this thread http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?1,75738

I have the prefetch.kmm macro on my website at http://www.perigee.net/~jmd8421r/prefetch.htm

Cache came from this thread http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?1,75409

I have the Cache15a1.kmm on my website at http://www.perigee.net/~jmd8421r/Cache15a1.htm

The cache macro has been updated to re-read the pref value to verify that it worked.

The following bug had already been reported for previous releases, and it's *** STILL *** here: after MANY closures and re-openings of K-Meleon, All custom settings (bookmarks, startup pages, and so on) are deleted, and the default ones are automatically restored. According to me, this is a very, very, VERY serious bug.

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dabiank
The following bug had already been reported for previous releases, and it's *** STILL *** here: after MANY closures and re-openings of K-Meleon, All custom settings (bookmarks, startup pages, and so on) are deleted, and the default ones are automatically restored. According to me, this is a very, very, VERY serious bug.

We can't fix what we can't reproduce. Are you sure that you are not deleting your profile yourself (inadvertently) ?

We more info for fixed this bug, we need a error patron to can reproduce it.
K-Meleon versión, Windows version, number of layers opened, number of times closed and open the browser, time between open-close & close-open.

I think that possiblement this is a memory manage bug. When you close the browser this save all preferences and settings in your profile, this need a little time, but if you try open the browser in this time profile files are unavailable to read it because K-Meleon try saved all configs (writing data in it). By default K-Meleon generate a new profile if none profile exist or if the set profile is busy or unaccessible.

Thanks and greetings.

Can s.o. tell me what will happen to the native preferences? Will they be gone for good with 1.5, will the new dialog eventually made native (s.th. like cfg-based preferences) or is the plan to keep XUL preferences?

The new dialog is made nice, but I like the native one more. It's not only the speed (I can live with slow(er) preferences), but I just don't seem to find the options I'm looking for in the new one, much like in FireFox where you have loads of tabs and sub-sub-menus scattered all over the place.

And BTW I'm missing a Cancel-button to close the dialog without saving stupid stuff I did there. ;-)

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ra
Can s.o. tell me what will happen to the native preferences? Will they be gone for good with 1.5, will the new dialog eventually made native (s.th. like cfg-based preferences) or is the plan to keep XUL preferences?

The native panel is broken due to internal changes. There are currently no plans to repair it. Dorian is doing all the C++ development alone and there are simply more important things to do in the near future. XUL development can be done by me.

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And BTW I'm missing a Cancel-button to close the dialog without saving stupid stuff I did there. ;-)

There is no need for a Cancel button since your "stupid stuff" is saved immediately. ;-)

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We more info for fixed this bug, we need a error patron to can reproduce it.
K-Meleon versiï¿œn, Windows version, number of layers opened, number of times closed and open the browser, time between open-close & close-open.

I think that possiblement this is a memory manage bug. When you close the browser this save all preferences and settings in your profile, this need a little time, but if you try open the browser in this time profile files are unavailable to read it because K-Meleon try saved all configs (writing data in it). By default K-Meleon generate a new profile if none profile exist or if the set profile is busy or unaccessible.

In order to verify your thesis, you might want to play with the following batch file (adapt the path to your system):

@echo off
set km="C:\Program Files\K-Meleon\k-meleon.exe"

rem Enter as many of the following lines as you want:
start "" /wait %km%
start "" /wait %km%

K-Meleon version: shouldn't matter
Windows version: shouldn't matter
number of layers opened: shouldn't matter (km 1.5 doesn't have layers by the way)
number of times closed and open the browser: as many times as you like
time between open-close: shouldn't matter
time between close-open: approximately zero

I better your simple test program, you can download here:
Bugger

K-Meleon in Spanish

And, any results already?

I don't know how your program is working. In case it is waiting for the current km instance to be closed before it is opening the new instance (like my batch file), you might also want to try the following macro, which is opening a new km instance while the current instance is beeing closed.

TEST{
exec("\"".getFolder(RootFolder)."\\k-meleon.exe\" -new");
}
$OnQuit=$OnQuit."TEST;";

Note: You have to disable the macro in order to break the loop.

(You might write another program to automatically close km every couple of seconds.)

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And, any results already?

None result yet.

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kko
I don't know how your program is working. In case it is waiting for the current km instance to be closed before it is opening the new instance (like my batch file), you might also want to try the following macro, which is opening a new km instance while the current instance is beeing closed.

TEST{
exec("\"".getFolder(RootFolder)."\\k-meleon.exe\" -new");
}
$OnQuit=$OnQuit."TEST;";

I incorporeated your suggestion to this new release:
Bugger v.0.1

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kko
Note: You have to disable the macro in order to break the loop.

This is not nedded in new release. Macro is automatically installed when Bugger start test (if this option is checked) and deleted when Bugger is closed (or start test with option uncheked).

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kko
(You might write another program to automatically close km every couple of seconds.)

Added to this new release v.0.1 in option 'Only close.'

K-Meleon in Spanish

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desga2
We more info for fixed this bug, we need a error patron to can reproduce it.
K-Meleon versi�n, Windows version, number of layers opened, number of times closed and open the browser, time between open-close & close-open.

I think that possiblement this is a memory manage bug. When you close the browser this save all preferences and settings in your profile, this need a little time, but if you try open the browser in this time profile files are unavailable to read it because K-Meleon try saved all configs (writing data in it). By default K-Meleon generate a new profile if none profile exist or if the set profile is busy or unaccessible.

Thanks and greetings.

K-Meleon version: K-Meleon 1.5a1update2, but the version doesn't matter (I've ALWAYS had this problem, with ANY KM release)

Windows version: XP SP2

Number of opened layers: this is not important, it happens both with dozens of layers and with only one layer.

Numebr of closures end re-openings: some hundreds, keep in mind that I've to often reboot the system, every 3 or 4 hours, and this kills all running processes (including K-M).

I've always other browsers running, they are managed as K-M is, BUT this bug happens ONLY with K-M.

KMeleon can't delete a profile. Maybe it doesn't have it anymore in its registry file (registry.dat) and created a new default one, but the old one should still be here in your appdata folder (or any other location you've set).

Now if your profile is effectivily overwritten by a new one, this is an issue with the seamonkey profile component. But I think it's enough safe for this to not happen.

I think that your really problem is this:

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Number of closures end re-openings: some hundreds, keep in mind that I've to often reboot the system, every 3 or 4 hours, and this kills all running processes (including K-M).

Why is the really reason for reboot the system 'every 3 or 4 hours'?
What is your needed; bad configuration, the system hang up or freezze?

Are you try K-Meleon Pro 1.1.2? I think that this version run better in XP SP2 system.

K-Meleon in Spanish

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dabiank
Numebr of closures end re-openings: some hundreds, keep in mind that I've to often reboot the system, every 3 or 4 hours, and this kills all running processes (including K-M).

Well, actually, shutting down your system (logging off) should properly close all running processes rather then 'killing' them. What might happen is that km is sometimes not properly shut down when you log off. In addition to what Dorian said about registry.dat, this may also result in a corrupt prefs.js file. This file is located in your profile directory and is storing all your settings. When this file is corrupt, km will recreate it the next startup resetting everything to their defaults.

I have closed and opened km probably several ten thousand times since I'm using it (in various versions) and I never lost my profile - as well as ten thousands of other km users. So, I tend to say that your problem is a very rare one - it maybe happens to one out of (ten?) thousand users. But since the affected users seem to experience this problem pretty frequently (here's another report), we should try to figure out what's causing it. As long as we don't know what's causing it, we can't do anything about it.

If you are willing to help us, I'd like to please you to do the following:
1) Copy your prefs.js (if not your entire profile) and your registry.dat to a safe location. prefs.js is located in your profile directory (Edit > Configuration > Profile Directory), registry.dat is located some directory levels above.
2) When the problem appears to happen again, you should repeat procedure 1) before doing anything else. Your copies of these files might help us to figure out what happened or even how you can restore your settings. Try to remember what you did last with km (did you log off with km running or did you close it before logging off? did you notice anything unusual? whatever you might find important...) and report that to us.

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What might happen

This was happening to me occasionally with 1.1.2 also. It [seemed] to be related to closing 1.1.2 without closing all active tabs. I wonder if also it may be related to having set a short ‘WaitToKillAppTimeout’ value and/or ‘HungAppTimeout’ value in the Windows registry. The defaults are 20000m/s and I have changed mine to 1000m/s for faster shutdown. Or perhaps it is related to "AutoEndTasks" being disabled.

Charlie

~~If it ain't broke, why screw it up?~~

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I wonder if also it may be related to having set a short �WaitToKillAppTimeout� value and/or �HungAppTimeout� value in the Windows registry. The defaults are 20000m/s and I have changed mine to 1000m/s for faster shutdown.

Yes, of course. When you log off and any process isn't responding before timeout, the process is killed. This can result in data loss. The timeouts mustn't be set too short and the Windows shut down mustn't be forced (simply killing all processes). Generally, it's better to close all running apps before logging off.

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If you are willing to help us, I'd like to please you to do the following:
1) Copy your prefs.js (if not your entire profile) and your registry.dat to a safe location. prefs.js is located in your profile directory (Edit > Configuration > Profile Directory), registry.dat is located some directory levels above.
2) When the problem appears to happen again, you should repeat procedure 1) before doing anything else. Your copies of these files might help us to figure out what happened or even how you can restore your settings. Try to remember what you did last with km (did you log off with km running or did you close it before logging off? did you notice anything unusual? whatever you might find important...) and report that to us.

I guess, that isn't necessary anymore.

See:
Bug 205120 – Lost Profile after Windows Crash (open)
Bug 132517 – prefs.js frequently truncated on exit or crash (fixed)

Workaround:
Make a backup of your registry.dat file. Restore registry.dat with the backup when your profile gets lost again.

Can someone please advise me how to prevent loading ad place holders such as THIS

I know how to do it through preferences in other KM's. But I don't know how to do it in 1.5a1.

Thanks

Charlie

~~If it ain't broke, why screw it up?~~

simple.. use AdBlock Plus dude...
here is adblock plus for K-Meleon:
http://adblockplus.org/en/kmeleon

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I know how to do it through preferences in other KM's. But I don't know how to do it in 1.5a1.

1.) Rename a 1.1's or 1.1.3's K-Meleon.exe.
2.) Copy the renamed exe into Your 1.5 foldet.
3.) Start it to configure 1.5.

And use the 1.5 K-Meleon.exe for surfing



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hi
K-Meleon 1 .1.3 Turkish?
dowloand url

1. Problem - No Turkish user translated it