K-Meleon
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K-Meleon supports a number of command line options. To start the K-Meleon executable with additional parameters, navigate to the K-Meleon installation directory, right-click k-meleon.exe and send a shortcut to your desktop. Then right-click the created shortcut and choose Properties. Go to the Shortcut tab and append your parameters to the string in the Target input box. See the examples below.
Parameter | Effect |
"URL" | Starts K-Meleon with the specified URL (overriding homepage settings). |
-new | Starts a new browser instance. Available since K-Meleon 1.1. |
-P mostrecent | Starts K-Meleon with the most recently used profile. |
-P "profile name" | Starts K-Meleon with the specified profile. |
-profilesDir $appdata | Starts K-Meleon with the profile location set to the %AppData% directory (overriding profile.ini). |
-profilesDir "path" | Starts K-Meleon with the profile location set to the specified directory (overriding profile.ini). |
-webapp | Starts K-Meleon in kiosk mode. Available since K-Meleon 1.5. |
These parameters can be combined. Note that opening new instances may fail while the K-Meleon Loader is running.
"C:\Program Files\K-Meleon\k-meleon.exe" http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net
"C:\Program Files\K-Meleon\k-meleon.exe" -P mostrecent
"C:\Program Files\K-Meleon\k-meleon.exe" -new -P MyProfile
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