Aug 16
Dave’s quick capsule review: wait till 2.0
DB suggested I “…might want to have a look” at a Light, Fast and Highly Customisable browser based on Gecko so I did. K-Meleon calls its tabs ‘layers’ and it also renders webpages. Oh! And it insists on maximising itself across a dual screen display when you select a new layer. “Find a preference that turns that feature off” you say. No. This is not a feature, this is a bug. I will not turn their bug off.
So I try to uninstall it, I have tried for two days straight now. It will not uninstall, instead K-Meleon 1.0’s uninstaller freezes before it uninstalls anything. Dear K-Meleon, nice plan but I’m not going to use you because I can’t get rid of you.
August 19th, 2006 at 11:15 pm
Yeah, I thought about putting great emphasis on the might, as I had a feeling it wouldn’t be so hot, but I didn’t want to bias your impression of it. Anyway, sounds like you had fun with it. All good.
August 28th, 2006 at 5:36 am
K-Meleon 1.0 has it’s quirks, is a bit buggy and tends to not be user friendly unless you have at least moderate computing skills. Having worked through some of it’s issues in recent weeks I find the browser much quicker on my old Win98 system than Firefox and Opera. If I want to toy around with a browser as a hobby I use FF or Opera but for quick simple browsing on an old system K-Meleon seems to be my new choice because of it’s speed and moderately simple customizability.