There are two things that are stopping me from using K-Meleon(.4) instead of IE.

1. It isn't reading my existing IE favorites. I will grant that I have too many of them, but even when I deleted enough that it should work the favorites don't. I enabled Favorites via the plug-in menu, but no luck. Favorites worked for .3

2. It doesn't remember screen position. I understand that having a multiple monitor setup makes that harder.

My system is a Win98, and I have re-installed K-Meleon sever times.

Any suggestions?

1) What is the path to your favorites? Is it the same as what is defined in the registry entry HKEY_CURRENT_USER,\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\favorites ?

2) It's not meant to remember screen position, since opening a second window would exactly cover the existing window. Does it correctly remember window size?

-- Jeff

1. I didn't have that entry. I added it and now the Favorites work...at least most of them. Now I will wait patiently until the max number of favorites is increased.

Thanks Jeff!

2. Yes it does IF I leave it on the second screen. If I move it to the first screen, it defaults to the orginal size.

Max favorites is currently 512, do you really have more favorites than this?

I'll look for a way of making this unlimited.

Didn't one of the people say they had more than 900? I currently have 561.

I was amazed how much longer it takes to load with the favorites working. Without them K-Meleon started almost instantly. Extremely faster than IE. With them it is about on par.

Xiadix

I just rewrote the favorites plugin (or at least a major part of it). hopefully it should be much more speedy. If you'd like to test it, you can find this version here:
http://binaryc.teamreaction.com/kmeleon/favorites.dll (note, tihs version has only been tested for a few hours, so it may very well melt your computer).

In the old version, it defaulted to c:/windows/favorites if it didn't find the directory in the registry. For some reason this was removed (I don't know why, do you Jeff? *cough*cough*)

Feedback on the new favorites DLL.

Loads a little faste.
Orders the favorites differently (I can live with that).
It also adds Link\ to everything in that directory.

> In the old version, it defaulted to c:/windows/favorites if it didn't find the directory in
> the registry. For some reason this was removed (I don't know why, do you Jeff?
> *cough*cough*)

In the old (and now again in the new) version it didn't bother to check that c:/windows/favorites exists, so on a computer with no registry entries, and no favorites directory, it crashes on startup. Trying to guess the favorites dir is a bad idea anyhow, since it's not always going to be c:\windows\favorites. Perhaps calling SHGetSpecialFolderLocation instead of reading the registry entry would be a better solution, and if it doesn't succeed, it is safe to assume that there is no favorites folder.

-- Jeff

doesn't SHGetSpecialFolderLocation just read from the registry? even if it does, it still sexier than the current method I suppose.

Having in mind that favorites slow down the lovely kmeleon - is there a way to disable favorites? I don't need them.

toco

yep, go in to preferences, click plugins, click favorites, then click enable/disable. there should be no check mark next to favorites. then restart kmeleon.

This is incredible.

I thank you guys so much for writing this wonderful browser.

toco

The difference of the startup time is so big that you should maybe think to
ask about it during the installation procedure.

Something like:
- Use your netscape bookmarks ?
- Use your Internet Explorer favorites ?

Now, it starts incredibly fast. Cool.