[Release Notes]

+ Gecko 1.8 Final
+ New core exe
+ support downloading to Chinese/Japanese folder and Chinese/Japanese file name
+ All plugins re-compiled
+ New layer plugin which supports favicon (Like the one in KMA 1.0)
+ Firefox 's adblock extension added
+ Many more fixes
+ FIX a major GDI leak

and other new/fixes in KMA 1.0 Beta3

* Add: Dialog use now the font settings of the control panel
* Add: Popup blocked notification (I may need someone to make a better icon :p)
* Add: Tooltip in status bar icon and certificate display for secure pages.
* Add: New macro function _() to use for localized string.
* Add: Site icon for layer plugin
* Fix: Empty the edit area when a conf file doesn't exist in the preference panel
* Fix: Reworked site icon support, fullsuport now
* Fix: Privacy plugin clear history, cookie and password
* Fix: Bad findbar behavior when the page contains an iframe
* Change: UWM_UPDATEBUSYSTATE send when begin loading
* Change: New plugin function GetIconList, GetMozillaWebBrowser, AddStatusBarIcon
* Workaround: Tooltip not erased when using the mouse wheel
* Workaround: Print preview doesn't use the full width of the window

[Download]
http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~haojng/K-MeleonCCF0.04RC1.exe

Forgot to mention:

+ Session plugin added.
* Some UI fixes.


Thanks very much to Dorian for his excellent work.

Hao

See my blog also:

http://kmeleon.blogspot.com

and Chinese homepage:

http://kmeleon.blog.edu.cn

@Hao...Dorian
This is a beautiful browser!
Thank you.
Peace,
Stuart

This could quite possibly be my default browser for a while.
Great work, Hao & Dorian.

Brian

Adblock should be replaced with Adblock+. Adblock doesn't work well with flash player 8!
Also non-english characters aren't displayed in tabs or in bookmarks. When I go to some russian site for example in tabs there are just "?" and some other signs.
I haven't tested yet if tooltips leaves permanently on some occasions, as it happened on previous version.

Umm... Why is this version a friggin installer?!? That goes against the very nature of KM. A straight archive format such as zip or rar is good, a self extracting archive is fine, but an installer?!

There's a focus issue with tabs and the URL bar. Middle click a link to open in in the background, now try to scroll using the mousewheel.
You have to click within the current tab twice before it'll focus properly so you can scroll again. (The url bar gets focus as soon as you middle click, then the url bar text gets highlighted the first time you click within the current tab, then the tab will finally get focus again on the second click.)

@branko
I agree with you for this. But adblock plus doesn't work with our trimmed chrome. Adblock works fine though.

Hao

There is a newer version of adblock. Is it possible to replace it with the newer one?
I confirm the focus issue.
Is it possible to make unicode version so that it can display properly non-english characters? This way it is very annoying
Did anyone test memory consumption of this build against firefox 1.5?

There 's some conflict of session plugin. When loading a new page, middle click the tab will make the whole KM crash. So better disable it when you don't need it.

Hao

Adblock plus will work with this version, I guess you didn't see the updated info in the other thread.
I accidently left out an entry in "installed-chrome.txt", it works after adding it.
This is what's needed:

content,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/adblock.jar!/content/
locale,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/adblock.jar!/locale/en-US/
skin,install,url,jar:resource:/chrome/adblock.jar!/skin/ <<<<---------- add this

I have Adblock Plus 0.5.10 working except the checks don't show on the Adblock options menu in the prefs window.

The focus issue can be eliminated (I think ?) by changhing this pref to false:

user_pref("kmeleon.display.NewWindowHasUrlFocus", true);

I had problems with having to double click in the page before I changed the pref.

I agree with the fact that more advanced users may prefer not to have an installer, but I'm sure that new users, even if they are experienced, will prefer to have an installer. Not to have one will make it look like an amateur/experimental program made by newbees. An installer looks more professional and is less tendent to confussion (I wish I knew how to make an installer to my spanish version :-)

I also had to add "user_pref("kmeleon.display.NewWindowHasUrlFocus", false);" to my user.js because it kept resetting to true when I closed and restarted K-M.

it would crash when browsing multiple pages , and double-click one of the tabs

@aimfiend,
That's some bug in session plugin, disable it.

@CaptnBlack
Yes, you are right. I make adblock+ work finally. It's a pity it can't show the check options but adblock can. And I have to modify adblock+ to make about:adblock refers to its homepage rather than the chrome, or it will hang up the whole KM.

@Enaitz Jar
The self-extracting archives look and act much the same as an installer when you launch them, more than enough so to satisfy noobs. On the other hand, self-extracting archives can be opened in an appropriate archiving prog just as though they were normal archives. Thus self-extracting archives cover both camps.

I must strongly agree with Drahken's comments about the merits of distributing K-Meleon via zip, rar or self-extracting archives rather than 'black box' installers. Though, some self-extracting archives are in a proprietary format and cannot be opened by a different archive program from the creating one. So, I would go a bit further and ask distributors to ensure that the self-extracting archives can be unzipped easily.

@CaptnBlack,
I still got problem making adblock+ work. although I can add/edit filters in adblock preference, I can't make filtering work. Don't know why. And I met the same problem to make the latest adblock work also.

Hao

@Douglas
The 7zip self extractors are good. They can be extracted with 7zip (obviously), but also by winrar, powerarchiver, and others. (Winzip probably can't open them, it's the most low-end piece of crap ever.)

Don't get me wrong, I know the self-extracting archives are good (I currently use them). I'm only saying that the installers looks better and more professional, and you can automatically run the Set Default from them.

I think that considering this was a Release Candidate, that an installer is not such a bad idea.
I came to this thread to report the problem with the focus when opening up a new tab too, but i've change the preference in user.js now and it all works fine.
Thanks, CaptnBlack

Brian

@Drahken

I have the same problem that you mention.

I have a problem with a site I regularly visit resizing the browser.
In Fred's releases there is an option to Block or Allow resizing.

Is there ant way to block resizing in CCF/SM versions that don't
have this menu option?

Richard

I've updated the session plugin to fix the mentionned crash
http://boisso.free.fr/kmeleon/#plugins