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K-Meleon
K-Meleon 0.8 Release Notes
These release notes outline system requirements, installation
instructions, features and known issues for K-Meleon 0.8. These
release notes were last updated November 10, 2003. K-Meleon 0.8 was
released on November 10, 2003. The most current version of these
release notes are available at
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/docs/relnotes08.php
Contents
About K-Meleon
What's New, Improved and Fixed in This Release
System Requirements
Installation Notes
Uninstalling
Known Issues/Problems
More Information
K-Meleon 0.8 is released under the
GNU
General Public License.
K-Meleon uses the Gecko rendering engine developed for Mozilla which
provides excellent support for current HTML, CSS and DOM standards.
This version contains portions of
Mozilla 1.5.
The K-Meleon Team
Core Developers
Jeff Doozan
Ulf Erikson
Patches and Bug Fixes
Vernon Brooks
Jordan Callicoat
Project Documentation
Andrew Mutch
Past Contributors
Brian Harris
Rob Johnson
Mark Liffiton
Chak Nanga
Sebastian Spaeth
Christophe Thibault
Thanks
K-Meleon uses some bits from:
NSIS Installer (c) 2003
Nullsoft
Gecko and System Icon from Mozilla
Project hosting: SourceForge
What's New, Improved and Fixed in This Release
New
- K-Meleon core
- Current Mozilla 1.5 code
- Bookmarks/Favorites/Hotlist nickname lookup from the URL bar
- Save individual frame in a frameset
- Show a context menu for pages with background image
- Show page info and frame info
- Support for binding actions to mouse buttons
- Support for editing preferences using about:configs
Improved
- K-Meleon core
- File Downloading
- Browser icons
- Skin support
- Tooltip display
- Bookmarks plugin
- AddLink from context popup menu or macros 'pluginmsg' command
- Support for Mozilla keywords
- FindAsYouType
- Favorites plugin
- Support for Internet Explorer Search URL
- Fullscreen plugin
- Improved fullscreen display
- Fullscreen at start-up preference added
- History plugin
- Added global history panel
- FindAsYouType
- Hotlist plugin
- Layers Plugin
- Basic support for "sessions"
Fixed
The fixes in this release include the
improvements to the various components. Specific bug information is
available in the
Bug Reporting System.
- Windows 95, 98, 98SE, ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server.
- 32 MB RAM minimum recommended
- 5 MB of free hard drive space for download. 11 MB of free hard disk space for full installation.
Windows DLLs
The dlls shipped with Windows are improved and enhanced with each version.
Users of older Windows versions, Windows 95/98 and Windows NT, might have to update some dlls to run K-Meleon.
- K-Meleon is written by using Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC42.dll).
- The user interface of K-Meleon uses components available in Microsoft's Common Control Library (ComCtl32.dll). If you are not have Internet Explorer 5, you may need this file.
- If you have previously installed K-Meleon, make sure to uninstall any previous versions before continuing the installation for this
version. Uninstalling the previous version will remove all of the configuration and preference files. If you wish to save these files to use
with K-Meleon 0.8, please make a copy of all of the directories under "K-Meleon\Profiles" and save them outside the K-Meleon installation
directory before uninstalling K-Meleon.
- It is recommended that you exit all programs before running the Setup program.
- Double-click on the kmeleon08.exe file to start the Setup process. At any time in the process that you need to stop the K-Meleon installation, click on the Cancel button.
- Follow the on-screen instructions in the Setup program. Avoid installing K-Meleon 0.8 in the same directory as an older version. When completed, you will be given the option of letting K-Meleon start automatically.
- If you wish to use your old configuration and preference files with K-Meleon 0.8, please review the details on Migrating Profiles.
Javascript
- K-Meleon has built-in support to run ECMAScript (a.k.a Java Script).
Java
- Java applets
- You must first install the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to run
Java applets in K-Meleon. Once installed, K-Meleon automatically
detects your JRE installation and no other configuration is
necessary.
- K-Meleon has been tested with JRE 1.4. You can download JRE 1.4 from
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/download.html.
To see if JRE is properly installed, type about:plugins
in the URL bar. If you see Java Plug-in listed,
K-Meleon properly recognizes the JRE.
Internationalization/Multi-Language Support
- Translated menus and toolbar configuration files are available in the K-Meleon
Resource area.
- Go to Settings - Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs.
- Select K-Meleon (remove only).
- Click on the Add/Remove or Change/Remove button.
- Click on the Uninstall button.
- The K-Meleon Uninstall program will prompt you with a confirmation before uninstalling K-Meleon
- Click on the Finish button to close out the uninstall program when it is completed.
General
- Error messages related to MFC42.dll on Windows 95/98 or Windows NT are
caused by an outdated or missing MFC42.dll.
Download and install the Windows Libraries Update from Microsoft:
-
If you save more than one password from the same site, the
password manager will not autoload any of the passwords.
-
SSL support allows you to browse to SSL sites. However, if you try
to "View" certificates or "Help", the browser may lock up.
-
When viewing web page source from dynamically generated pages, the
current source may not match the displayed page.
Browser Display
- Text and bookmarks menus don't display on Windows95/98 or
Windows NT unless this file for Internet Explorer 5.0 or later is installed.
Download and install the Common Control Library from Microsoft:
- The Alt + accelerator (F, E, V, G, H) won't work with the menu
bar menus if the rebar menu plugin is enabled.
Disable the rebar menu to use the Alt + accelerator key
combinations. See
How
do I enable or disable a K-Meleon plugin? for more details.
- The menus don't display properly when you are using the Silver
theme in Windows XP together with the bitmapped menus plugin
from K-Meleon. The current workaround is to disable the
Bitmapped menus plugin.
- Colors don't display properly when monitor resolution is set to 256 colors since
Mozilla/Gecko does not provide proper support for 256 colors. See
Mozilla Bug #88560
- A site not displaying properly is normally caused by one of two
issues:
- The site is not compliant with current HTML standards.
- The display problem is due to a Mozilla/Gecko bug.
Mouse wheel scrolling\Multiple mouse buttons
- Mouse Gesture support is only available through third-party programs,
such as StrokeIt.
- Mouse wheel scrolling does not work with all drivers. If you
have problems, try updating your driver or disabling any
"helper" programs that your mouse uses.
- K-Meleon may not recognize secondary control buttons on mice
with multiple buttons. If your mouse software permits
programming, you may want to try binding those buttons to the
respective keyboard commands that K-Meleon uses for
navigation.
Third party Plug-ins
- Most Mozilla-compatible plugins work with K-Meleon. If you
already have Mozilla-compatible plugins installed, K-Meleon will
detect and use a number of these plugins. You can download
Mozilla/Netscape-compatible plugins from Netscape here:
http://home.netscape.com/plugins/
- Shockwave Player will only install if it sees a file named
"Netscape.exe". Create a copy of the file
kmeleon.exe and rename it to
netscape.exe and place it in the same directory
as kmeleon.exe. When Shockwave asks for the location of the
plugins directory, use the following location:
\Program Files\K-Meleon\plugins
Proxies
- K-Meleon can be configured to work properly with proxies such as Junkbuster that do not support the most recent HTTP specification. By default, K-Meleon tries to use HTTP 1.1. To use K-Meleon with a proxy that only supports HTTP 1.0, change the HTTP version under Edit - Preferences - General.
- K-Meleon only accepts hostnames for manual proxies.
K-Meleon provides a number of resources to support your use of K-Meleon:
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