I'm really not into doing any programming, modifications, etc. I've recently found K-meleon and LOVE the simplicity and the speed.

But unlike the TabbedBrowser extension with MozillaFirebird, I see no way to easily make K-Meleon work as a tabbed browser.

Layers? I can't figure out something equivalent to Firbird's "single window mode" that would make new links and hopefully new openings from the address bar, open in a new window.

Anyone explain to me an easy way to do that?

Thanks,

Gary Speer

Is it what you're looking for?

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?id=SingleWindow

Thanks so much! That does almost everything I was looking for.

The only "tweak" that would be nice is this: With the Firebird tabbedbroweser extention, when I type a new address in the address bar and hit enter, it automatically opens that URL in a new window.

But when I type a URL in the address bar in K-Meleon, even after the modification you showed me above, it opens in the current window.

Any way to do that differently?

BTW -- K-Meleon seems so much nicer than either Firebird or Mozilla Suite, that I can't believe it! For example, there's a forum I go to several times a day. Because of a couple of bugs in Firebird, that particular forum almost is inaccessible. Every time I go there in Firebird, I have to hit "reload" repeatedly to get the forum index to display. In Mozilla, it doesn't have that problem, but Mozilla seems slower than Firebird.

I've been going to that forum all day with K-Meleon. It opens in a flash and it's never given me the index/reload glitch that I get with Firebird.

Applause to the developers at K-Meleon. It's a terrific little browser.

(Sorry. Didn't mean to rant on like that. LOL!)

Gary Speer

I've no solution for opening a new window when writing a URL in the address bar.
Since typing at the keyboard is needed, I suggest opening a new layer before typing the URL. Normally the URL bar should have the focus (if you have set new windows to open with a blank page).

As for KM. Appart from one or two small problems (with KM or Gecko), it's getting better with each build.

Go here:

http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?id=Load+URL+in+New+Layer

In using single window mode :

/* SINGLE WINDOW MODE */
user_pref("dom.disable_window_flip", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_move_resize", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.*", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.minimizable", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.titlebar", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.close", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.toolbar", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.location", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.directories", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.personalbar", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.menubar", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.scrollbars", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.resizable", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.status", true);
user_pref("dom.disable_window_status_change", true);
user_pref("kmeleon.plugins.layers.catchClose", false);
user_pref("kmeleon.plugins.layers.catchOpen", true);


The history button (as well as bookmarks button) opens up in a new window instead of a new layer. Is this correct? Everything else opens in a new layer as wanted. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thank you.