8/14/2006 08:34:00 PM - K-Meleon 1.01
It has been a long time since I've used K-Meleon, so I decided to give it a shot. I'm going to try it for a while, but here are my first impressions.
- 1.01 is out, but you have to download 1.0 and then update it to 1.01.
- It seems to let me hook into my "Netscape" bookmarks, but doesn't let me browse to my bookmarks.html
- I'm a bit overwhelmed by preferences. Under the regular preferences, I have a Config option that shows me stuff like
%ifplugin layers MButton = layers(OpenLink) %else MButton = ID_OPEN_LINK_IN_NEW_WINDOW %endif
I also have access to Advanced Preferences. Bookmarks -> Options... takes me to Advanced Preferences, too. - Similar to IE, it looks like they threw as many icons on the toolbar as possible. But I can't find an obvious way to take any of them off. Ok, I finally found it under View Toolbars. But I still can't get rid of the Bookmarks, History, or Print buttons.
- Along the lines of importing my "Netscape" profile, it would nice if some of my settings from prefs.js were picked up, like my proxy.
- Some things are blissfully the same, such as JS Console and about:config
- It set itself as the default file opener for html files :-( Maybe I wasn't paying enough attention during the install.
- I can pop my user.js from Firefox into the K-Meleon folder, as well as my userContent.css :-)
So I'll give K-Meleon a try for a while. I'm sure I'll try out some of the themes and extensions.
5 minutes later...
- Instead of using browser.startup.homepage it uses kmeleon.general.homePage
- Changing themes requires a restart, but it doesn't tell you that.
- My setting for browser.bookmarks.file was ignored
- There seems to be both a profile directory and a settings directory, kmeleon.general.profileDir and kmeleon.general.settingsDir respectively
- CTRL + L won't put the focus in my URL bar
Trying to use this is going to be harder than I thought.
