K-Meleon is so much older than Phoenix. I wonder why You have never used it :O
The native widget versions of Gecko browser: Galeon, Kazehakase, Epiphany, Camino & K-Meleon are well integrated into their respective OS. That makes them resource efficient and fast (e.g. at startup) compared to the Geckos the rely much on XUL.
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