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I'm trying K-meleon and find it a bit touchy. It won't open a pdf file, it
can't seem to download more than one file at a time, etc.

Anyone else using this?
 
On 06 Feb 2006, Jeffrey Needle wrote
I'm trying K-meleon and find it a bit touchy. It won't open a
pdf file, it can't seem to download more than one file at a
time, etc.
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Yes; I've used it as my default for about a year now.

It's a bit geeky, but I've never had a problem opening pdf files --
it just calls on the default pdf-reading program, AFAIK.

I just did a test, and while downloading Open Office (always a good
download-blocker....), I had no trouble downloading images from
other sites.
 
I'm trying K-meleon and find it a bit touchy. It won't open a pdf file, it
can't seem to download more than one file at a time, etc.

Anyone else using this?
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Yes, K-Meleon is a great browser, although it's a little more difficult
to configure than Firefox and others. But it's fast and fairly light.
I had no trouble with pdf files, it just loaded Foxit, which I use for
pdf's. I have also downloaded multiple files without problems. Not
sure why it won't work for you.

I used KM for some time, but then recently reverted back to Firefox
mostly because Firefox is easier to deal with in general. But KM is a
fine browser, one of my favorites. It's either FF or KM here for me.
 
I'm trying K-meleon and find it a bit touchy. It won't open a pdf file, it
can't seem to download more than one file at a time, etc.
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Did you use the setup engine for installation? It should auto-detect
an installed Acrobat Reader and you should not encounter any problems
like the ones you described... :-(

Take a look at this site to additional information on plugins:

http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/kmeleon.html

Maybe you should uninstall K-Meleon and start a clean re-installation
from here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14285

The newest full download is K-Meleon0.9.12-installer.exe. And you
sure know the K-Meleon pages and the forum? Else take a look:

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net
Anyone else using this?
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It has been my default browser for about 3 years by now.

BeAr
 
On 06 Feb 2006, Jeffrey Needle wrote


Yes; I've used it as my default for about a year now.

It's a bit geeky, but I've never had a problem opening pdf files --
it just calls on the default pdf-reading program, AFAIK.

I just did a test, and while downloading Open Office (always a good
download-blocker....), I had no trouble downloading images from
other sites.
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Hmmm, strange stuff. I don't know what's going on.

further testing shows it won't open my bank's page for me to pay bills.
Too bad.
 
Did you use the setup engine for installation? It should auto-detect
an installed Acrobat Reader and you should not encounter any problems
like the ones you described... :-(
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Yes, I used the full install.

Take a look at this site to additional information on plugins:

http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/kmeleon.html

Maybe you should uninstall K-Meleon and start a clean re-installation
from here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=14285

The newest full download is K-Meleon0.9.12-installer.exe. And you
sure know the K-Meleon pages and the forum? Else take a look:

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net


It has been my default browser for about 3 years by now.

BeAr
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Thanks for all the help -- I'll give it some more time.
 
Yes, K-Meleon is a great browser, although it's a little more
difficult to configure than Firefox and others. But it's fast and
fairly light. I had no trouble with pdf files, it just loaded Foxit,
which I use for pdf's. I have also downloaded multiple files without
problems. Not sure why it won't work for you.

I used KM for some time, but then recently reverted back to Firefox
mostly because Firefox is easier to deal with in general. But KM is a
fine browser, one of my favorites. It's either FF or KM here for me.
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Thanks for the info! I'll keep working with it.
 
On 06 Feb 2006, Jeffrey Needle wrote
Hmmm, strange stuff. I don't know what's going on.

further testing shows it won't open my bank's page for me to
pay bills. Too bad.
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That could be your bank, though -- I access not only my personal
account through K-M, but also a business account which requires an
authorising certificate.

Some of the banks are funny about lesser-known browsers, though.
(FWIW, both my accounts are with HSBC in the UK.)
 
further testing shows it won't open my bank's page for me to pay bills.
Too bad.
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Such pages often depend on certain ActiveX controls. These might or
might not work together with K-Meleon. Read the activex.js file from
the [K-Meleon_Root]\defaults\pref\ folder and set the values inside
it according to you needs.

Regarding your *.pdf problem: If nothing helps - reinstalling Acrobat
should.

BeAr
 
På Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:50:50 +0100, skrev Jeffrey Needle
further testing shows it won't open my bank's page for me to pay bills.
Too bad.
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We've been using it for a couple of years.
My impression is that it's a fullfledged, modern browser, and very fast.

If your bank is accepting Firefox, it should also accept K-Meleon. Their
handling of security and certificates are very similar.
I share, however, your experience. My bank is allowing Firefox, but will
not consider K-Meleon until it reaches version 1.0.
 
A question I haven't found any answer to in the K-Meleon forum: how to
increase the limit (by default 3, I think) of the contemporary downloads?
Thanks.
Giovanni
B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson said:
further testing shows it won't open my bank's page for me to pay bills.
Too bad.
Click to expand...

Such pages often depend on certain ActiveX controls. These might or
might not work together with K-Meleon. Read the activex.js file from
the [K-Meleon_Root]\defaults\pref\ folder and set the values inside
it according to you needs.

Regarding your *.pdf problem: If nothing helps - reinstalling Acrobat
should.

BeAr
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further testing shows it won't open my bank's page for me to pay
bills. Too bad.
Click to expand...

Such pages often depend on certain ActiveX controls. These might or
might not work together with K-Meleon. Read the activex.js file from
the [K-Meleon_Root]\defaults\pref\ folder and set the values inside
it according to you needs.

Regarding your *.pdf problem: If nothing helps - reinstalling Acrobat
should.

BeAr
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Thanks -- I'll give it a look!
 
We've been using it for a couple of years.
My impression is that it's a fullfledged, modern browser, and very
fast.

If your bank is accepting Firefox, it should also accept K-Meleon.
Their handling of security and certificates are very similar.
I share, however, your experience. My bank is allowing Firefox, but
will not consider K-Meleon until it reaches version 1.0.
Click to expand...

Perhaps the 1.0 will emerge soon. Thanks for the insights.
 
On 07 Feb 2006, GRL wrote
A question I haven't found any answer to in the K-Meleon
forum: how to increase the limit (by default 3, I think) of
the contemporary downloads? Thanks.
Giovanni
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I don't know the answer to this, but it *may* -- just may -- be
contained in the user.js file in your default profile.

In there, under /* SPEED SETTINGS */, there are the following
entries which you could play around with:

user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 48);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16 );
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy",
16 );
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-
server", 8);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8 );
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);

I have no idea whether this is relevant, but ISTR fiddling with
these types of settings a year or so ago -- so it might be worth a
try.
 
Perhaps the 1.0 will emerge soon. Thanks for the insights.
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I would be surprised seeing it this (or even next) year. K-Meleon
development is deliberate (aka 'slow') and aims towards a *very*
stable v1.0. ;-)

BeAr
 
I would be surprised seeing it this (or even next) year. K-Meleon
development is deliberate (aka 'slow') and aims towards a *very*
stable v1.0. ;-)
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I'm currently using K-meleon 1.0 Sea Monkey version. It's available
via the forum, is stable and very fast.

--
Mike

A bad standard is better than nothing. It gives you something to
violate.
-- The Hammer Forum, 1986
 
Thak you, but K-Meleon still starts only two downloads at a time, even if it
enqueues all the requests for downloading.
G.
 
A question I haven't found any answer to in the K-Meleon forum: how to
increase the limit (by default 3, I think) of the contemporary downloads?
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Can you please specify your problem? Do you get an error message when
you start new downloads? Are FTP and HTTP downloads afflicted, likewise?

I never had any problems to initiate another download. They of course
share the bandwidth. So the download speed of every single download
will decrease. (While the sum of all downloads approaches the theoretic
maximum...)

I just tested and had no problem running 3 FTP and 5 HTTP downloads
at the same time. (Most of them from the same server.) As you can see
from the settings Harvey posted: all values are reasonable high, by
default.

Please note, that *all* download processing is stalled as long as a
'Save As' dialog is open. If you initiate a download which needs
some time to retrieve the necessary information and click onto other
links, then the SaveAs dialog may open in background and all of the
K-Meleon networking activity freezes.

BeAr
 
I'm currently using K-meleon 1.0 Sea Monkey version. It's available
via the forum, is stable and very fast.
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Only 'official' releases are eligible. ;-) There are quite a few
versions of K-Meleon out there, which sometimes use a *very* different
numbering system. K-MeleonCCF is v0.05.1, for instance...

BeAr
 
Only 'official' releases are eligible. ;-) There are quite a few
versions of K-Meleon out there, which sometimes use a *very*
different numbering system. K-MeleonCCF is v0.05.1, for
instance...
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Except that Dorian's Sea Monkey build is /in fact/ the one slated to
be "officially" called 1.0.
 
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