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[quote=snuz2]

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.

Why should we continue to develop kmeleon?[/quote]

snuz2,

I've been a K-Meleon user since 0.6... I never had a browser so open to end users before. By that I mean the original macro language and later KKO's rewrite that allowed more extensive macros. The lack of XUL also was an attraction back when I had slower CPUs and even with KM's use of an out of date Gecko, it runs almost as fast as Firefox 9.0.1 on my aging T-40 Thinkpad. The community here has been a plus for me also, as in when I needed a macro for a specialized task, all I had to do was ask and someone almost always would either write one for me or tell me why it wasn't possible. (I wrote macros with the original, but not with KKO's rewrite.)  Firefox extensions are not so flexible IMO.

As for keeping Gecko as the engine, I'm not a coder, so the point I would make is this. Mozilla Corp. is on the fast track in trying to keep up with Chrome. Perhaps WebKit is not a bad idea, because unless one or more of the old developers come back, you would be the only C++ developer for the moment and keeping up with new geckos all the time is a lot of work, but not for me to say one way or the other, with my lack of programming skills. If you look at the history of development here, it has always been just one C++ developer and a group of other coders who help out but don't do C++.  It truly has been a community and a mom and pop developer team that have kept KM alive all this time (going back to Phoenix, before Firefox).

Just my two cents worth.[/quote]

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