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K-Meleon Portable 1.5.3 Development Test 1

Submitted by Pat.Ord on July 26, 2009 - 2:50pm

Application: K-Meleon

Category: Internet
Description: K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser for the Win32 (Windows) platform based on the Gecko layout engine (the rendering engine of Mozilla).

Download K-Meleon Portable 1.5.3 Development Test 1 (English) [6.3MB download / 18.7MB installed]
(MD5: 03a9d025ae25af884222ce1c525661d8)

This PAF is based off of Travis Carrico's original work on the 1.5_Development_Test_1 release. I am new to PAF and am learning the procedures, protocols, and so on. Please be aware this is my first attempt in maintaining/releasing a PAF package.

It is recommended you do a clean install if you have an older release until we determine what files/directories should be preserved

Languages supported from the K-Meleon official locales package:

English - tested
French - tested
German - tested
Polish - should be available but I could not test as I do not have this codepage installed on my test systems
Russian - should be available but I could not test as I do not have this codepage installed on my test systems
Spanish - tested

Release Notes:

1.5.3 Development Test 1 (2009-07-26)

K-Meleon distribution updated to 1.5.3 final
AdBlockPlus plugin updated to 1.0.2 with multilingual support (still handled as a multi-installer option)
PAF installer updated to 0.91.7
compiled against NSIS 2.45
added eula.txt per Mozilla license requirements (copy of the mpl.txt file)
added in language pack support via the new PAF multilanguage functions

( categories:

Beta Testing

)

:-)

duke3d - July 26, 2009 - 4:48pm

I will try, Thanks

Bug :(

duke3d - July 26, 2009 - 6:35pm

The same problem that the K-Meleon Portable 1.5.0 Dev Test 1, I open several Tabs 9 or 11 (empty or filled)it hangs or it closes whenever; in Windows xp and vista.

Thanks

Sorry for my English

Bug - cannot reproduce

Pat.Ord - July 30, 2009 - 12:23pm

I've extensively used Travis' 1.5 dev release and my 1.5.3 dev on multiple XP SP3 and W2K3 SP2 systems with no issues that you report. I have not tried it on Vista so I cannot comment on that.

Are you using addons/plugins besides the Adblock one?

addons/plugins

duke3d - July 31, 2009 - 6:12am

No, I do not use Adblock; but i use NPSWF32.dll (Flash player) in USB:\K-MeleonPortable\App\K-Meleon\plugins\ , and without (NPSWF32.dll) It is the same thing.

doesn't launch with Vista ultimate 64bit SP2

millarrp - July 31, 2009 - 7:22am

I've just tried this now and it doesn't launch. I get a Windows dialog box saying "K-meleon Web Browser has stopped working"

happens both with and without adblock installed

a local install works without problems

The specs for my pc are:

Windows Vista Ultimate SP2
AMD Phenom 9750 Quad Core (running at 2.40ghz)
8GB Ram
ATI Raedon HD 4650 (1gb video memory)

Vista and tab issues

Pat.Ord - July 31, 2009 - 11:30am

Search of K-Meleon's forums shows that the issues above are probably with K-Meleon itself and likely not with how I am packaging for PAF.

Possible tabbing concerns:
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/forum/read.php?3,91854,92822#msg-92822

Possible Vista concerns:
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/forum/read.php?2,92895,93114#msg-93114
(though to be honest I have no way to see what extra items may have to be done to get it to work with Vista - if any - specifically since I do not run Vista).

I'll assume the users above have run K-Meleon through the standalone installer and had no issues with a native install?

standalone installer had no problems for me in Vista

millarrp - July 31, 2009 - 3:57pm

You are correct in your assumption, at least with the vista issue I reported. I did try the native install of K-Meleon using the standalone installer and that did work for me

Great

Dagenham (Homepage) - October 4, 2009 - 6:22am

Works just fine. Any chance for the "official" release?

Hello Dagenham. Great to

Pat.Ord - October 29, 2009 - 1:59am

Hello Dagenham. Great to hear you are able to use it. Just curious as to what Operating System you are using this on (XP, Vista, Win7, etc)?

Apparently a few users running this on Vista are having issues so I doubt this will become an official release unless I get around to rebuilding a Vista test system to try it on. I wiped out my only Vista SP2 dev laptop because it was just too painful to use and ended up installing XP. I am still using my PAF release on dozens of WinXP SP3 and W2K3 SP2 systems with no issues as of this post. I will be testing it out on Win7 in the next few weeks. If that works fine I will likely bypass supporting Vista altogether.

XP SP2

Dagenham (Homepage) - October 29, 2009 - 3:39am

Windows XP, SP2. I've never used Vista and I never will .

Win7 64 bit here - installed

getco - November 1, 2009 - 5:53pm

Win7 64 bit here - installed it, but it would not launch...

Noted on Win7

Pat.Ord - November 2, 2009 - 6:17pm

Thanks for the heads up on Win7-64bit. When I get around to building a Win7 VM, I'll try to debug it and see what the problem might be.

Windows 7 testing

Pat.Ord - November 6, 2009 - 5:41pm

Current testing status for Windows 7 with this PAF:

1. Windows 7 Professional 32 bit version (freshly installed in a VMWare container): I have installed this with the adblock plugin enabled. It runs with no problems even with 20+ tabs opened. There is some odd initial tab toolbar behavior I'll have to check out though.

2. I will be installing Win7Prof 64 bit version in the next few days/weeks to try that out.

K-Meleon forums seem to indicate no serious issues running in Win7. So if there are any problems it will be in the PAF launcher that I will have to correct.

Extensions?

Dagenham (Homepage) - November 15, 2009 - 2:52pm

Is there any support for the K-Meleon extensions (http://kmext.sourceforge.net/)?

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