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Gecko-based K-Meleon 0.9 browser Released

Posted by Hemos on from the keep-the-pressure-on dept.

Fylfot writes "After a long time in development, version 0.9 of the Gecko-based K-Meleon web browser for Windows has been released. K-Meleon is the geekier, more configurable, lighter-weight (XULless), speedier twin of Firefox. When 1.0 comes out, Microsoft may have another reason to worry about Internet Explorer marketshare. Also reported on Chip Online and MozillaZine."

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  1. clean by Janitha · · Score: 0, Troll

    Its like the naked version of firefox. Just better and clean.

  2. Speedier twin of Firefox by gowen · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... and the benchmarks showing this are ... let me guess... Nowhere? Speedier at doing what, anyway? It's hardlier going to be rendering, given that they use the same rendering engine.

    Which leaves, what, startup?

    And are you counting the overhead of starting KDE and all those unpleasant threads that KDE starts (which make ssh -X so unpleasantly hard to log out of). Course they're not.

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  3. More Troll Goodness by Neuroelectronic · · Score: 0, Troll

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  4. Re:Simple. XUL == Slow. by jwegy · · Score: 1, Troll

    Ah yes! but does your P166 have the MMX instructions? You are running a freak'n Pentimum 166 in 2005, and you think XUL based applications have issues? Dude.