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K-Meleon 74 Beta is out

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/forum/read.php?8,127127 189.100.72.118 (talk) 13:59, 24 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Is K-Meleon being developed anymore? I read a post on Slashdot which stated that it was a dead project, but it just might be 'resting'. (The source is open, so this could change at any time.) It's my browser of choice, and you should look into it if you haven't already. -206.15.46.129}}

The project is very much active, the last beta (0.6.5) is from Sep 15. Unlike other OSS projects they don't "release early, release often", though, so it may still take a while until the next stable version is released.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Eloquence (talk • contribs)

Well, K-Meleon version 0.7 was released in October 2002. If you're stuck running one of the compatible Microsoft operating systems, you might find that you will like using this new version. - Two halves (formerly known as 206.15.46.129)

K-Meleon is now at 74 Beta 3 (its forum post is at http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/forum/read.php?8,127127). It would be nice if someone updated its article to contain info regarding the new beta. Zero3K (talk) 19:52, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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K-Meleon 0.7 running on Win XP Home. Photo courtesy of Joshua Holman.

K-Meleon 0.7 running on Windows® XP Home. Photo courtesy of Joshua Holman.

136K is WAY too big for a screenshot. Jpeg is the wrong format -- PNG would be smaller. And anyway, do we need a screenshot for this? Readers can find one by following the link to the website. PLus it's too wide for the browser window ... -- Tarquin 10:29 Dec 28, 2002 (UTC)

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The image and discussion are quite old, irrelevant to the current state of the web browser, and are wasting Wiki bandwidth.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.230.195.77 (talk • contribs)

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Can I put in that K-Meleon launches faster than Firefox even where K-Meleon is running on a Pentium 200 MMX and FF on a Celeron 433, or would this be non-NPOV? Chris Chan.talk.contribs 00:00, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

K-Meleon predates Firefox

I just want to point out that K-Meleon exists before Phoenix (now Firefox). The statement that "[the use of native Windows API] is intended to reduce the browser's resource requirements", just after talking about Firefox, is misleading because it implies comparison with Firefox, while the correct comparison would be to the browser component of Mozilla Suite. I'm still not 100% happy with the current wording—it's still kind of saying that K-Meleon, Galeon, and Camino were/are created to be 'lightweight Firefox' (before the Phoenix project even started)—but at least it's much better than the previous "is intended to". This is not at all about neutrality, but about not giving the wrong idea to readers; you can't say "Mac OS is an operating system, similar to Windows. Mac OS is intended to provide a more user-friendly interface...". — LazyEditor (talk) 04:20, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Be bold --LBMixPro ^<Sp ^e ^ak|on|it!> 19:10, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but I don't know how to improve the wording. Specifically, I don't know how to mention the similarity with Galeon et al. without drawing too much connection between them and Firefox. — LazyEditor (talk) 02:26, 8 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comparisons with Firefox are the most obvious comparisons to make. Historical accuracy can be saved for the point when someone makes the effort to write a proper timeline for the article: the intro is meant to make it obvious what K-Meleon is, so it's best to compare it to the most obvious thing possible. Anyway, K-Meleon currently competes with Firefox, not the Suite, so at the moment it is entirely correct to state that K-Meleon aims to be a lightweight Firefox. Chris Cunningham 10:20, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, I agree that comparison with Firefox is necessary because it is the dominant Gecko browser. As for the "lightweight Firefox" issue... please read these ideas:

K-Meleon is a lightweight Firefox
Galeon is a lightweight Firefox
Firefox is a cross-platform K-Meleon
K-Meleon is a Gecko IE
K-Meleon is a Windows Galeon

In my opinion, all of them are reasonable, but not exactly true because the programs' authors don't say so. — LazyEditor (talk) 10:23, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Why there's a claim about using "native ui instead of xul", as far as I see it doesn't user the WPF properly...— Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.234.5.137 (talk • contribs)

Release table

I think the table ought to be redone in reverse chronological order, with the newest release first. This is what people are most interested in. What do you think? AadaamS (talk) 09:31, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I do not think so. It is not the purpose of an encyclopedic article to advertise the latest releases. Those are anyway shown in the summary at the right top of the page. The release history is meant to show how old the K-Meleon project actually is - since K-Meleon is often entitled as a Firefox clone, which is plain wrong. Kko km (talk) 16:10, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Request for some serious editing to bring this article up to date

This article needs a lot of work. It is non-encyclopedic in its language and scope, too many unimportant details are included, and it is lacking updated information.

Can someone who has some experience with this project weed out all of the unimportant bits and complete sections like the release history? Clearly, this project was dormant for a long time and there has been little to no maintenance done for this article, but with the pending final release of version 74, this article deserves to lose a lot of dead weight and clarify a lot of details. 69.181.226.23 (talk) 05:52, 8 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]