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K-Meleon's Command Line Options


K-Meleon supports a number of command line options. To start the K-Meleon executable with additional parameters, navigate to the K-Meleon installation directory, right-click k-meleon.exe and send a shortcut to your desktop. Then right-click the created shortcut and choose Properties. Go to the Shortcut tab and append your parameters to the string in the Target input box. See the examples below.

Parameter Effect
-new Starts a new browser instance. Available since K-Meleon 1.1.
-P mostrecent Starts K-Meleon with the most recently used profile.
-P "profile name" Starts K-Meleon with the specified profile.
-profilesDir $appdata Starts K-Meleon with the profile location set to the %AppData% directory (overriding profile.ini).
-profilesDir "path" Starts K-Meleon with the profile location set to the specified directory (overriding profile.ini).
"URL" Starts K-Meleon with the specified URL (overriding homepage settings).

These parameters can be combined. Note that opening new instances may fail while the K-Meleon Loader is running.


Examples


Open the K-Meleon homepage

"C:\Program Files\K-Meleon\k-meleon.exe" http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net


Open K-Meleon with the most recently used profile

"C:\Program Files\K-Meleon\k-meleon.exe" -P mostrecent


Open a new instance using profile MyProfile

"C:\Program Files\K-Meleon\k-meleon.exe" -new -P MyProfile

Note:

  • Each instance can use only one profile at a time. When you want to use several profiles at the same time, you have to open a new instance for each profile.
  • Each profile can be used by only one instance at a time. You cannot use the same profile with several instances.
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