I hate toolbars, they take up too much space. My lizard is stripped down to its underwear--main, url, and tabs. I do everything I can with a keystroke. Still, with so many psychotic sites around, it's a matter of choosing the lesser evil. I'll have to devote a little time in Obsession Mode to finding a better solution. I'm just being lazy when I babble in forums
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Could be system differences letting some of you guys get away with it. I just hit another one. Disabled javascript, and it stopped bouncing. Re-enabled javascript, and it went postal again. What I'd love to find is a way to block certain scripts. Can't block all javascript all the time, that would be Forum Hell. Meanwhile, I either give up and pass the link to Furryfox or go through
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This has been bugging me a lot lately. Every so often I hit a site that won't stop refreshing. I have to hit Esc at the right moment to stop it at a point where I can read what I need to. Otherwise K-M keeps reloading the page over and over. Here is an example: http://www.disinfo.com/2010/12/xkcd-wikileaks-vs-anonymous/ It doesn't affect Firefox. I've saved some stuff to tr
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Computer has had some odd moods lately. So has K-Meleon. K-M was getting horribly slow to load yesterday, and I couldn't pin down any cause. The usual suspects -- cache, history, etc. -- were all eliminated. After the last bootup, during which Windows complained of having been shut down improperly (and I definitely plead not guilty!) K-M came up all nasty defaultish looking. I was shocked
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I don't know the location of the "browser default" checkbox that you mentioned. It might also help to know what version of Windows you have. In the K-Meleon folder, look for the file SetDefault.exe (I hope you have file extensions visible? Letting Windows hide them is not safe and leads to confusion). Double-click it to run it, and let it do its dance. You can't uninstal
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Looks good to me. I'm going to test-drive it all over the internet. With my own skin and stripped toolbars, of course
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I just turned on a new k-m user. We were exploring gopherspace, and he wanted to see the pictures. Hurrah.
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I am aware of the options. What I am interested in is why the links get screwed up.
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Recently I've been having problems with links in Google searches. I try to open the link in a new tab, but when I go tp that tab, the browser is straining away and getting nowhere. In the address bar, instead of the URL I expect to see, there is a long string of Google-garbage. To get back to normal, I close K-meleon, clear the cache, and delete the history. Then everything is fine until
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Well, I'll be dipped. I have to play with this ETA: Hmm. It doesn't like external style sheets. I do. It will sure come in handy for some things though.
Forum: Extensions

Have to share a funny story: I went to the Favorites menu, but the link I wanted had been pushed down off the end by several rows of gibberish and question marks. My first thought was, "What T F did I bookmark yesterday?" Anything can happen when you get a bit sleepy, LOL. So I clicked the "Edit..." link to get a quick look at what was there. Winderz Explorer wouldn't
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Now and then I get some site kvetching at me that I have cookies disabled. I check my settings, and everything is fine -- but it's still no cookies. Finally I take a look deeper into cookie management, and find the the site's cookies are being denied. But I did nothing that I know of to cause that! It has happened more than once. This last time, just today, it was Google. To tell the
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*Sigh* I just discovered that Google Wave doesn't like K-M too well. Looks like spoof-time has come at last. *Dons Firefox mask and stalks the Wave...*
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I'm sure it's been brought up before, but ye olde search didn't find anything. Maybe I'm overlooking a magic macro somewhere too. Anyway.... It would be heavenly to refresh the Favorites menu without restarting K-M after moving or modifying links. Bookmark management is the only thing that makes Firefox look better from some angles. But more satisfying than that is re-or
Forum: Improvement requests

Download problems are sorted out, I needed to edit mime types. That should take most of those kinks out. There are always some complicated links that don't work well no matter what. I just try them in different browsers or download managers. I still have to budget my tab space carefully. Feels funny having the freedom to open as many windows as I like without worrying about RAM issues, bu
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ROFL page is total bogosity, that's why Very cute Also very clever.
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I used Nir Sofer's Mime Types View to make a list of everything I can possibly have for faster reference
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Everyone should b1atch at Yahoo. I loathe their ugly box trap as much as I do hotmail's. I only go to yahoot at all because my workplace has AT&T as a sorry excuse for an ISP. I always use the older interface because it makes more sense anyway.
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Ratz. Still no K-M in Jaunty. I've tried over and over. Had it running a couple of times but all it ever did was freeze trying to load something. Could be worse. I have Epiphany, a slim Gecko-based browser that has somewhat the feel of K-M.
Forum: Other custom builds

WOO-HOO! I'm surfin' in Ubuntu right now, and I miss my 'meleon. I'm off to get it!
Forum: Other custom builds

I have Mouse Gestures disabled as always. It's only certain kinds of links -- actually K-M does pick up some downloads, but not the odd indirect ones. ETA: Forgot to say, I am using K-M 1.5.3 I have some more definite facts about the tab freezup. My window is 820x640, a size I find comfortable for reading because it keeps lines short. This allows eight tabs of default max size (35). Wh
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I'm running Vista x64 now, with UAC disabled and my portableized K-M copied over from my old XP machine. No problems EXCEPT.... I'm having to use Firefox to download a lot of things and another problem that I haven't fully analyzed yet. K-M can't pick up download links that I left click on. All sorts of odd behavior. I'm thinking this might be some carryover of gradual
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Huh. AMD Athlon(tm) Processor, 1007MHz Total Memory 512MB ...and very few problems. Of course I have Flash and Java off by default. When I get over ten tabs, I start to look for something to close. I learned how to budget resources on my first 486, and I spit on bloated websites.
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I despise and loathe Facefook for more reasons than I have hairs. It is a great example of all that's going wrong with the Web -- bloat, stupidity, bloat, stupidity, and bloat. Oh, and stupidity too. Not even for K-M would I go back. But if you want to see truly evil "social networking", look at MyLife.com (formerly Reunion.com and forever slimy), and others like it that pull credi
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In my experience, a firewall is the most important first step in protection. Being "careful" isn't going to keep a worm out, but a firewall can. I have the old Kerio Personal Firewall, it doesn't gobble resources and it has been effective. My antivirus almost never has anything to do.
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Well! I should say so!
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It is not the same at all! Scrolling toward me zooms in. Scrolling away -- toward the screen -- zooms out. Everything else is the opposite. I always roll the wheel the wrong way when I use Firefox at work. it isn't so hard to remember with other apps, but my brain sees "webpage", my finger does what it always does for K-M, and it is wrong. It's like trying to use a mouse left-
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Well, am I ever glad I can block Flush -- er, I mean Flash -- by default.
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w00t thanks
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My small problem is the Ctrl+mouse wheel zooming. I have not been able to find anything about this with searh. K-Meleon's zoom direction is the opposite of everything else. It is confusing when switching back and forth with other browsers, Office apps, text editors, almost anything that zooms. And I have to zoom a lot! I would like to change it so that K-M zooms in (bigger) when I wheel forw
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