Because K-Meleon lacks some of the bells and whistles you'd find in Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Opera, the browser is fast. Like really fast. It also doesn't use as much RAM as Firefox, which is known to be something of a memory hog.
That's not to say that K-Meleon is a one-trick pony. The browser is customizable, and you can choose from a variety of skins and themes. And K-Meleon supports tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, pop up blocking, and macros.
K-Meleon is Windows only. But if you're looking for light weight Mac or Linux web browsers that use the same Gecko rendering engine as Firefox, check out Camino or Galeon.
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4-29-2008 @ 10:31AM
jccalhoun said...
K-Meleon has been around forever. It was out before Firefox. It is a nice alternative for old machines.
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4-29-2008 @ 10:32AM
Brad Linder said...
Yeah, this falls under the "I can't believe we hadn't written about this before" category.
4-29-2008 @ 3:17PM
Franklin said...
I heard about K-Meleon years ago but forgot about it since the developers appeared to have lost interest in further developing it. Nice to see that they have indeed been updating K-Meleon.
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4-29-2008 @ 6:55PM
Damian said...
It's nice to have a light version of something, always easier to do in open source. But I think Fx3 really catches the right balance between features and performance.
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4-29-2008 @ 7:00PM
aanidaani said...
Funny how Firefox was supposed to be IE "without all the bloat."
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4-29-2008 @ 7:01PM
Franklin said...
Even if you use FF3 (as I do), give K-Meleon a try. I don't use it as my primary browser, but it works very well as a "back-up browser" for those rare times when I need to do simple and fast Web browsing (like when I'm running multiple memory-hogging apps at once on my computer).
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4-30-2008 @ 1:05PM
Transcontinental said...
@aanidaani,
The only bloat in Firefox is the extensions we choose. Cannot have both an empty flat and a furnished one for the same price.
I remember first install of Firefox 2, it loaded very quickly, was light as a feather. Now with my 70 extensions (like my kids, love them all!) the fox is getting fat, but rich!
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5-01-2008 @ 12:14PM
Relequestual said...
I read the first line of this post.
Thats the point where I stopped reading it
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