27 Facts About K-Meleon

K-Meleon is an open-source, lightweight web browser for Microsoft Windows.

K-Meleon was one of the first projects to use Gecko outside of Mozilla's original internet suite.

K-Meleon began with the goal of being faster and lighter than the cross-platform suite of applications.

K-Meleon was one of several browsers built around Mozilla's embedded Gecko web engine.

Christophe Thibault designed K-Meleon to combine Gecko with native Windows interface elements.

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K-Meleon began by building and branding Mozilla's test application for embedding the Gecko layout engine.

K-Meleon was built with open-source code from Mozilla but offered a few key advantages over Mozilla's application suite.

K-Meleon was released before Firefox and was the first project on Windows to separate the browser from other Mozilla Internet Suite applications.

K-Meleon used the native Windows application programming interface win32 to create its user interface.

K-Meleon was integrated into the look and feel of the Windows desktop and was less resource-intensive than other browsers on Windows.

The K-Meleon team released several new versions of the browser to fix bugs, improve stability, and add features including pop-up blocking, encrypted downloading of web pages using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, and online proxies for anonymity or content filtering.

In K-Meleon, macros are a smaller type of browser extension designed to be human-readable and easily modified or created by end-users.

K-Meleon was the project's developer but stated that he was no longer using K-Meleon as his primary browser after moving to Linux.

All K-Meleon versions released since have retained compatibility for this system.

Shortly after the ballot was released, K-Meleon downloads peaked near two hundred thousand per month.

In late 2013, the K-Meleon group began developing new versions based on Mozilla's XULRunner 24 runtime environment in place of the discontinued Gecko Runtime Environment.

K-Meleon 74 was the first stable release to use updated versions of this environment.

K-Meleon 74 introduced limited support for the XUL-based extensions that were then popular on Firefox.

K-Meleon 75 was released in 2015 with a Mozilla 31 backend, TLS 1.

K-Meleon 75 includes an expanded version of the previously optional JSBridge plugin.

K-Meleon incorporated the improvements in web-rendering technology from Goanna Tycho and continues to port back security updates from the current version of Goanna.

K-Meleon is actively developed but has not implemented recent web features introduced by Google like Shadow DOM.

K-Meleon's macros are a type of small browser extension that can be opened in a text editor by end users.

However, K-Meleon never had a community of extension developers comparable to those of Firefox or Chrome.

In contrast K-Meleon never had more than a few hundred extension developers despite support for a small number of major extensions like AdBlock Plus.

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All versions of K-Meleon are written for the Microsoft Windows operating system.

K-Meleon is not designed for Unix, but can run on POSIX-compliant systems if they have an implementation of the win32 API like the Wine compatibility layer.