Last version: 3.5 d

One of the last releases was in 2006 year.

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Last version: 0.9.12

Home page: kmeleon.sourceforge.net

OS           Size
Windows     5.7 MB    

It’s enough good browser, fast, with greate number of settings and functions. Based on Mozilla runner.

The navigation is realized with the help of insets, i.e. in main window it could be several web-pages, and you may switch between them, as in Opera, K-Meleon and Mozilla Firefox.

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Stay more detail on some iseful functions of K-meleon:

• Undo last closed – open last closed page – useful, if you accidentally closed inset.
• There is ability of fast switch between proxy servers.
• K-meleon understands mouse gestures. Such function is in Opera browser. For example, user press right button of mouse and move the mouse to the left, then browser return to page back. If mouse moving to the right, then to one page forward. Such mouse gestures you could retarget if you want.
• Build into RSS client.
• K-meleon hold the ability to switch between users profiles, i.e. between different configurations, that is too comfortable.
• Approval of scins.
• K-meleon could working with groups – groups of links. For example, saving current pages to one group and then quickly open them. It’s necessary in order to do not waste the time to opening several pages manully, if you often working with this pages.
• Very convenient function is Hot Keys – opening fixed page by clicking on fixed combination of keys. You may fixed only 9 hot keys.
• There is interesting searching of text, you could set word or several words and browser illuminate them on the web-page. Of course, there is also standart search of words when words searching one by one on whole web-page.

    
And now let’s consider some settings of K-meleon browser. K-meleon very pliably sets, that’s why let’s consider some the most interesting browser’s settings.

• Edit mime types – edit files’ types, which you need to open by outward programms.
• Downloads of images – you could load images only from current site, all images or not at all to load them.
• Set cache in memory and cache of disk area.
• For users who loves deeply and subtly set programms – exists an ability of manually set the configuration file.

Some shortcomings:

• Do not shown the status of the page loading.
• You couldn’t switch the coding by right button, only through the menu view.
• There is now download manager.
• For changing the skin of browser you should to rerun the browser.
• You couldn’t to download cache images.

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Interview With Mozilla’s Chief Innovation Officer

Written by Richard MacManus 

In my recent visit to Silicon Valley, I got the chance to visit the Mozilla headquarters. Among others at the organization, I spoke to Chris Beard – Mozilla’s Chief Innovation Officer and the person overseeing its efforts to bring new concepts to the browser, a.k.a. Mozilla Labs. We discussed where Firefox is heading and how it compares to Google Chrome in particular. We also talked about Mozilla’s new mobile browser Fennec, the add-on platform, and how recent innovations by Mozilla – such as Weave and Ubiquity – fit into the big picture. In this post we’ll focus on the near future of Firefox.

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Firefox vs Chrome

Chris Beard and I first discussed what Mozilla is doing to keep Firefox, its flagship product, competitive in the latest generation of the ‘browser wars’. Google, whose headquarters are just up the road from Mozilla and who I also visited on the same day, upped the ante in the browser industry in September last year when it launched a brand new browser called Chrome. Not only that, but Google went out of its way to claim that Chrome represents the next generation of browsers, because (according to Google) it is much better than existing browsers at managing the increasingly sophisticated web apps we see on the Web nowadays.

Beard noticeably bristled at the suggestion that Chrome performs better with heavy duty web apps. He noted that Firefox is also working hard to make highly interactive web apps run smoothly. Regarding Google’s claim that Chrome’s isolated tab processes mean a more stable browser, Beard replied that Firefox too is very stable and that it doesn’t crash much these days. And to be fair, in this author’s experience the latest production versions of Firefox have indeed performed much better than they used to. I still get the odd browser crash though.

What’s the Vision for Firefox?

But arguments about browser stability aren’t going to differentiate the two browsers, Firefox and Chrome, in the eyes of the general public. So I asked Chris Beard to explain Mozilla’s vision for the future of Firefox. Beard replied that the vision for Firefox is to help users navigate and manage an increasingly complex world. Beard likened this concept to intelligent agents; and he also used the term ‘trusted assistant’. Beard told me that the browser will be "tied to services" – he mentioned the current activity happening in the Linked Data and Semantic Web communities.

Add-ons are a huge part of the current Firefox experience and Chris Beard said that some of those add-ons will become more integrated into the core browser. While that isn’t a new trend, I noted that it sounds similar to what Flock has done. Flock is a browser built on the Mozilla platform that integrated many social web elements into the browsing experience (Flickr, YouTube, etc). I suggested that Firefox may want to offer bundles of add-ons, so that users don’t have to go hunting around for various individual add-ons. Beard said that yes, this is in the works. He said that users will be able to create add-on "lists" and offer them as a single click to other users – much like Amazon’s wish lists. However he noted that there are usability issues to overcome, because some add-ons aren’t necessarily compatible with others. He said that currently Firefox has around 8000 add-ons and that we can expect this bundling feature to come out in the next couple of months.

As for other upcoming changes to Firefox, Beard told me that many aspects of the current Firefox experience could be in the cloud – for example bookmarks and the "Awesome Bar" (Mozilla’s term for its adaptive learning URL bar). Beard said that portability of the user experience is important in this era of the Web and so they’ll be looking to offer certain functionality and data in the cloud.

Another part of Mozilla’s strategy for Firefox going forward is to integrate aspects from some of its associated products, such as Ubiquity (an experimental Firefox add-on that gives your browser a context sensitive command-line – see ReadWriteWeb’s most recent write-up) and its sync product Weave (our write-up). Beard told me that all Mozilla products are designed to be extended, but this may include making them part of the core Firefox browser. Ubiquity, for example, may end up being baked into Firefox in the future.

In my next post, we’ll explore Mozilla’s strategy for Fennec (its new mobile browser) and we’ll look at recent developments in other Mozilla products such as Ubiquity and Weave.

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