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K-Meleon 0.7 was released today, get it at http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/download.php .

I've converted a couple of people here to KM already, but for those who've never heard of it, it is the fastest, the smallest, the most customisable, and the most compliant browser available. (Opera's slogan is "The fastest browser on earth" or some such bullshit, marketing slogns do not = fact) As far a compliance, well it's a 3-way tie with Moz & NS6 because theyre all built on Gecko.

Anyway, yeah i know this should be in WIT but we've been working on this release for over a year and im pretty pumped. It really is the best browser for those who dont thrive on frivilous features. There's no mail client, no instant messenger, no html editor, as if anyone ever uses them anyway. Tbere is a macros language (courtesy of yours truly) and menu and accellerator and tooolbar configuration that let you do literally anything with this browser. dont ever use the edit menu? get rid of it. want to press cntrl+a to post a new thread at asylum? bind a macro to a accelerator key. want to highlight a word and right click it to search at google or dictionary.com in a new window? bind a macro to a context menu.

so get it already http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/...n/kmeleon07.exe

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I bet you get wood readin the code for good pr0n.

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want to highlight a word and right click it to search at google or dictionary.com in a new window? bind a macro to a context menu.

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:+: I like it, it is fast as hell.

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Yeah, it is pretty darn fast. But can it do my laundry?

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No need for binding on my part with Mozilla. I'mma check out the browser on the merit that I used it way back and it seemed okay.

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I'm running Mozilla 1.1 as well.

Highlight text and right click. Below "Select All" you'll find "web search for:" and then the text you just selected. Granted, it uses search.netscape.com to perform the search, but I think that a few moments poking around with options should fix that.

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ah, never noticed that before. it's a shame it's there whether someone needs it or not, and "the net" is obviously netscape since they fund mozilla.

can you highlight text then hit ctrl-s to search gooogle for the highlghted text? can you highlight text then ctrl-d to search dictionary for th ehighlighted text? can you search anything but netscape for that matter?

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ctrl+s = save
ctrl+d = nothing

I'm not a power user so I really don't know or care about such features. I'm perfectly content with doing everything manually.

The idea is pretty good, though. I'm sure there are users out there that do go for that stuff.

What I want to know is this: What' the hell is up with all this "mouse gestures" crap?

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im a avid oprea user

downloading and ill let you know what god thinks of it

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mouse gestures is like the new fad, you have people who love using the keyboard and want keyboard shortcuts for everything, it's onlyl natural that the complete opposite would conjoin and appear. the people who want to do everything with a mouse.

the mouse gestures are mouse movements you pre-record and bind to certain actions (this is available as a KM plugin but is NOT k-meleon functionality, this falls into the 'frivilous features' category)

say, you recorded a gesture of moving the mouse up0.5-down1.0-up0.5-left0.5-right1.0
that would indicate a cross, or plus (+)
so moving your mousei in this gesture woud do something

The only thing ive ever found them handy for are things you use very frequently, in my case 'history back' and 'new window'. hotkeys work just fine for that.

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tho i have got to adapt to haveing all the net winwods ancored into the main... can you make k do that?

god likes it

(i emailed it to him)

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i have no clue what youre talking about

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tho i have got to adapt to haveing all the net winwods ancored into the main... can you make k do that?

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He either hasn't looked at the layer plugin for tabbed style browsing or K-Meleon is doing something funny and not letting Windows XP stack it's multiple windows into a single entry in the task bar.

At least, that's what I'm guessing he's asking.

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gave it a shot, think i'll be sticking with moz for now. km is a bit too stripped-down looking for me.

and tan? why tan? ick

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ah, never noticed that before. it's a shame it's there whether someone needs it or not, and "the net" is obviously netscape since they fund mozilla.

can you highlight text then hit ctrl-s to search gooogle for the highlghted text? can you highlight text then ctrl-d to search dictionary for th ehighlighted text? can you search anything but netscape for that matter?

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