K-Meleon 0.9 Beta Release Notes

This beta release primarily focuses on upgrading K-Meleon to work with a modern version of Mozilla's rendering engine, Gecko. We have chosen to use the latest from Mozilla's 1.7 branch which is currently (nightlies of) 1.7.4. Other enhancements are more visual, such as a new skin and reworked menus. The primary goal during the beta process is to weed out any recurrences of older bugs and to find and fix any new bugs. Overall feedback on the look and feel of K-Meleon 0.9b, both positive and negative, is also welcomed.

Bug Reporting Process
Please report all bugs, questions and comments to the developers mailing list at kmeleon-dev@lists.sourceforge.net. Visit http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kmeleon-dev first to subscribe and to read archived messages before posting.

Any bugs that can not be addressed immediately will be filed in the Bug Tracking System.

Beta Testing Priorities
The following items are priorities for testing. Please take time to test and report on the the following features:

• Normal browsing: Anything that used to work in K-Meleon 0.8.2, but doesn't work in the new K-Meleon 0.9b.
• Macros: K-Meleon now comes with a huge collection of ready-made macros. Help us test them all thoroughly.
• Privacy plugin: A new plugin. Give it a strong work-out.
• Toolbars and menus: Most everything with toolbars and menus are changed, but basicly they are still the same. Help us make sure that they both work okay no matter what plugins you enable/disable.
• New skins: We are proposing using the Phoenity skin as the new default skin. Two versions are available for testing.
• Chrome-related items including cookie manager, password manager and Javascript console.
• Downloading and downloading options. It is a known issue that automatic downloads always close after download.
• Anything that could possibly depend on the Windows version you use.
• SetDefault: A small tool (selected parts from the old installer) to set K-Meleon as your default browser.

These release notes outline system requirements and new and improved features in K-Meleon 0.9b.

Contents

Installation
What's New and Improved
System Requirements

Installation

Install K-Meleon 0.9b in a directory separate from any other version of K-Meleon installed on your computer. This version is for beta testing purposes ONLY!

What's New in This Release

New

• K-Meleon core
• Current Mozilla 1.7.4 code
• Force Character Set
• Offline Browsing
• Privacy plugin
• Enables deletion of collected browsing data: Cookies, Disk Cache, History, Passwords and URL Bar History.
  

Improved

• Toolbar plugin
• Menus for toolbar buttons with related items. Available via left-click & hold or right-click. Default setup contains new button menus for: Reload, Home, Bookmarks, History, Print, Mail, Zoom, New Layer/Window, Close Layer/Window, Go & Up.
  
• Macros plugin - Various features available by default:
• Enhanced Search - Support for multiple engines. Search from the URL Bar, via prompt or for any highlighted/selected text on a page. Additional options are available.
  
• Groups & Session support for layers.
  
• Page Zoom - Full Page, Images Only, Text Only
  
• Mail and News integration.
• View Pages in IE - For non-standards compliant webpages.
• View Page Links - To accompany Page Info.
• Configurable Domain Completion
  
• Specify Save Directories - For "Save Page As", "Save Link As", & "Save Image As".
• Open New Page & Close Page Buttons - New Page button also recognizes highlighted/selected text on the page and serves as a "Go to URL in New Page" feature if text is selected.
• Paste & Go, Paste & Search - From the Go Button menu. Pastes clipboard contents to the URL Bar and processes it.
  
• Privacy Menu & Tool Bar w/User Agent Switcher - Integrated with the privacy plugin with additional privacy features.
• Easier Configuration - Options from the Tools menu: Find As You Type, Keyword Autosearch, Mouse Gestures Configuration Guide, Additional Bookmark/Favorites/Hotlist options, Advanced editing with Notepad for configuration files.

System Requirements

• 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, may have to update some dlls to run K-Meleon. If you experience problems with menus and plugins not displaying, please download the following update:

• Vcredist.exe
• To obtain this update, download VC6RedistSetup.exe here. When you run VC6RedistSetup.exe, it will install Vcredist.exe into a directory that you specify. Browse to that directory and run Vcredist.exe to install the appropriate updates.
• Users on WindowsME and Windows 2000 should go to the Windows Update web site to download the appropriate updates.