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I'd like to hear from some of our regular contributors ( and others!) what you think is so special about Kmeleon that it deserves to continue. Doesn't Firefox now do everything Kmeleon does? I am asking this because I am a C++ and javascript developer, and I am currently unemployed and have been thinking over whether I want to volunteer to develop Kmeleon.

For me, why keep using it? My reasons are better compatibility with W98 ( history and bookmarks still don't work with FF on 98), fast startup ( like I said, FF getting a lot better lately), and perhaps most importantly a philosophy of controlling the browser from the surfer's perspective rather than the website's. Also, I like my rss extension and I don't know if FF has a similar one. But most extensions I use are ported from FF anyway...

I would like to see "the browser you control" continue to differentiate itself from the crowd by giving both more control and more convenient control. As I have maintained on this forum since I began to use Kmeleon maybe 7 years ago, I think the privacy bar almost gets it, but not quite. I would like to see it resident in the wasted space of the status bar. I would like to be able to set a default group of permissions for new web pages I haven't seen before. Once I load a page, I would like to be able to quickly and easily enable/ disable images, js, cookies, caching, etc by just clicking in the status bar until the page looks like i want it to look. I would like the browser to remember that next time I load the page, to maintain those permissions. I would like this to be efficiently built into the browser with a fast hashed database that makes a single access per page fetch and uses it to control the page's loading.

I don't think any commercial operation will dare to make such controls so easy to use, kmeleon would truly be the browser you control. I know a lot of this can be added to kmeleon by extensions and some has been integrated already ( like flashblock). But the black/whitelisting is still too inconvenient, and these things are actually ported from FF in almost every case, so they can be added there too. The only way to differentiate Kmeleon is to make them easier and more complete. I think I would stop short of integral adblocking other than the current css "display blocking " system, but who knows, maybe that's what we need, an integrated adblock plus like engine.

What makes Kmeleon Kmeleon anyway? Gecko html engine ( calls to replace it with webkit)? MFC interface ( is that in XUL runner)? the macro language( is it really so different from javascript anyway)? it's the european browser( won't be if i lead the development, i'm american)? W98 compatibility( so few of us now)? Just cuz we like being different?

So I ask all of you: Why should we continue to develop kmeleon?[/quote]

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