K-Meleon :: Announcements

Announcements : K-Meleon Forum

Goto: Forum List•Message List•Search•Log In

Your Name:
Subject:

Help information

[quote=kko]
[quote Terry]This is not a gripe but an observation. Clearly, K-Meleon is based on a branch of Seamonkey. For whatever reason, K-Meleon is seen as an "old browser" by some webpages and therefore won't run the ubiquitous Flash components. That's why User Agent selection is there. For example, if one goes to something like the Disney page: http://disney.go.com/index where the whole thing is flash in the K-Meleon default mode, you will be given a message that your browser is too old. I noticed that for 1.5a the User Agent no longer includes Netscape 8.1 as a choice and that Seamonkey has been supstituted. Actually since Seamonkey is also recognized by this page as an "old browser", I wonder if the Netscape choice could be returned. Both the IE and Firefox user agents work with this page, but I don't see any advantage to the Seamonkey user agent when K-Meleon is probably perceived as Seamonkey anyway. Just an observation ... Again, thanks Dorian.[/quote]

I've removed Netscape for the following reasons:
1) K-Meleon is based on SeaMonkey. But there's no hint at SeaMonkey in our default useragent. Therefore, in regard to compatibility, the original SeaMonkey useragent is the best substitute for the default useragent when a website is rejecting km.
2) The second best choice is Firefox' useragent since it is usually accepted by all web sites.
3) Netscape 8 is outdated. I could not predict that Netscape 9 would be released shortly after. Anyway, I guess, sites that don't recognize Firefox, usually don't recognize Netscape either.

Best send complaints to the webmasters of sites that reject K-Meleon. These guys have to learn that Gecko is a platform and that Firefox is only one browser among a lot of others using this platform and all having the same capabilities.[/quote]

K-Meleon forum is powered by Phorum.