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[quote="Mr. Cooper (not logged in)"]
I vote to keep developing K-Meleon.  It's similar to FF, yes, but FF is built on XUL and is slow and clunky.  K-Meleon is built on Windows API's and Gecko, so it's fast.  I like that.  It's also lightweight and flexible.  It's my favorite browser![/quote]

I do not think we can vote much about anything. Let me explain. The current lag in development is because the devs have skills, PC and tools but no time.

snuz2 wrote that he runs Win98, the needed c++ / JavaScript skills, has no job and has therefore time.

I thought he had a good & secure job. So I was sorry/unhappy to hear this tiding.

The rest of the original post that started this thread is not good news either.
To me it boils down to: snuz2 has skills and time but no toolz.

The free HTML rendering engine that run on Windows especially Mozilla's Gecko and Google's Webkit project have a minimum compiler requirement namely VC8 aka Microsoft Visual C 2005. K-Meleon has an additional handicap. Its exe is an MFC application and the libs that are needed to build it come only with the commercial version of that compiler while the free VC8 Express is sufficient to build the Gecko engine.

Now the minimum install requirement for [url=http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/wiki/BuildKMeleonDistribution]VC8 is Win2000 or higher[/url]. While I could give him my VC8 or send him the lib folders - he could not install it. Which IMHO rules out that snuz2 can do anything to keep K-Meleon.exe alive with its current code base. The only thing he could try is adapt the plugins code (which is not MFC) to work with Firefox.exe.

Another possibility without VC8. Replacing K-Meleon native kmm based menus with Conkeror style JavaScript menus to use more Xulrunner componets might be possible. The savings in Firefox style Chrome Xul are probably in proportion with the CPU cycles and memory usage of using the JS of the new menus. So I see K-Meleon at no disadvantage against other Xul using browsers from such a change. But that is an extensive change taking years.

You are right about the rest. K-Meleon can be build lighter so it is still fast on old machines and by design even on the newest machines a few % faster than Firefox. This always amounts to more surfing experience - even on brand new machines where You do not notice the speed advantage of a few %.

I have new machines. I already tried browsers with newer HTML/JS engines but kept K-Meleon.

For me K-Meleon's easy configuration is the main strong point. I can set K-Meleon to open any window or tab the way I need it for my best surfing experience. I can set the search engines & the mouse the way I want.
I can add new engines or menus items easily.

At the touch of a button I can toggle JavaScript & Popups.[/quote]

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