[Update] K-Meleon 0.9 Beta 4

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K-Meleon is the Windows answer to Galeon. Thus, it is a lite Web
browser based on Gecko (the Mozilla rendering engine). It's fast, it
has a light interface, and it is fully standards-compliant. To make it
simple, it could be considered as the unbloated Mozilla version for
Windows. It doesn't require Mozilla to be installed to run. The
interface tries to mimic the IE MFC interface as much as possible. For
convenience, it also uses the IE bookmarking system.

Developer
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/

Download
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/files/beta/km09b4moz174.exe
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K-Meleon is the Windows answer to Galeon. Thus, it is a lite Web
browser based on Gecko (the Mozilla rendering engine). It's fast,
it has a light interface, and it is fully standards-compliant.
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No, it is not fully standards-compliant. Gecko isn't. It aims to
be, and keeps getting better. The K-Meleon faq has this to say
about standards compliance:

What level of support for standards does K-Melon provide?

K-Meleon uses the Gecko rendering engine developed for Mozilla
which provides excellent support for current (X)HTML, CSS (level
1 and some level 2), and DOM standards.

Excellent support, yeah; complete support, no. Not even Opera,
which is generally ahead of the pack, has complete CSS2 support yet.
To make it simple, it could be considered as the unbloated Mozilla
version for Windows. It doesn't require Mozilla to be installed
to run.
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The K-Meleon pages don't seem to say how K-Meleon is licensed. The
Wikipedia says it comes under the GNU GPL. I'm curious about this
because I didn't think it was yet possible to release mozilla.org
stuff (Gecko) under only the GPL yet.

FWIW, Galeon does require Mozilla to be installed (and the same
version of Mozilla that Galeon was compiled against must be used).
It was my understanding that this is because the Gnome folks are not
free to repackage Gecko and release it under the GPL, and Gnome is
pretty well married to the GPL.
The interface tries to mimic the IE MFC interface as much as
possible. For convenience, it also uses the IE bookmarking system.
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I've been wondering why K-Meleon doesn't grow on me. This is
probably the best explanation I'll get.

Anyway, it's good to see K-Meleon is back in active development.
AIUI, the developers were just waiting for the stable Gecko that
Mozilla 1.7.5 and Firefox 1.0 are built on, so that they could move
forward.
 
I've been wondering why K-Meleon doesn't grow on me. This is
probably the best explanation I'll get.
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I agree. It's nice, lite, somewhat featureless but more of the same old,
same old.
 
I agree. It's nice, lite, somewhat featureless but more of the same old,
same old.
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If you want the latest revision of the translucent, swirling pinwheel
kaleidoscopic, full OS system replacement browser, bypass K-Meleon.

lol
 
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