K-Meleon / Trellian WebPage

[Bill Piety]

I don't know how many of you are using this browser, but I switched over
when I realized that Firefox was a bit resource-hungry on my laptop. Firefox
was reaching 40megs ram usage at times with multiple tabs, whereas K hover
around 20-23 tops. There's a toolbar with options that turn off/on features
at a click, ie images, flash, cookies, pop-ups, java, java-script, cache,
etc. Especially useful when I'm using my dial-up vs my wireless connection -
or in visiting sites that might be doubtful.

Side note - I see very little mention anywhere of Trellian's very fine
wysiwyg web page design prog: WebPage. I've been using it for some time now
and very pleased. 3-tab work area - editing in essentially wysiwyg mode,
preview, and html-code level for fine tuning. The single feature I would
like to see is the W3C code checking that htmlgate provides (I believe
that's the one - I've tried several lately).

 

[Harvey Van Sickle]

On 21 Mar 2005, Bill Piety wrote

I don't know how many of you are using this browser, but I
switched over when I realized that Firefox was a bit
resource-hungry on my laptop.

I switched for other reasons, but I'll second the recommendation -- I
made K-Meleon my default browser a couple of months ago, and have been
very happy with it.

It's a bit more geeky than FF -- fiddling about with certain
preferences can require editing text rather than pointing-and-clicking
-- but if my fairly rudimentary geek skills can handle it, it can't be
all *that* obscure.

(Oh, yes: the K-M forums are extremely helpful, and tend to avoid OTT
fanaticism. Which is a breath of fresh air in browser forums....)

 

[Sweet Andy Licious]

I don't know how many of you are using this browser, but I switched
over when I realized that Firefox was a bit resource-hungry on my
laptop. Firefox was reaching 40megs ram usage at times with multiple
tabs, whereas K hover around 20-23 tops. There's a toolbar with
options that turn off/on features at a click, ie images, flash,
cookies, pop-ups, java, java-script, cache, etc. Especially useful
when I'm using my dial-up vs my wireless connection - or in visiting
sites that might be doubtful.

Side note - I see very little mention anywhere of Trellian's very fine
wysiwyg web page design prog: WebPage. I've been using it for some
time now and very pleased. 3-tab work area - editing in essentially
wysiwyg mode, preview, and html-code level for fine tuning. The
single feature I would like to see is the W3C code checking that
htmlgate provides (I believe that's the one - I've tried several
lately).

I have used K-Meleon in the past and may return if FF continues to bloat.
Thanks for the headsup.