K-Meleon 0.8.1 Release Notes
These release notes outline system requirements,
installation instructions, features and known issues for K-Meleon 0.8.1.
These release notes were last updated December 12, 2003.
K-Meleon 0.8.1 was released on December 13, 2003.
The most current version of these release notes are available at
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/docs/relnotes081.php.
Contents
What's New, Improved and Fixed in This Release
System Requirements
Installation Notes
Uninstalling
Known Issues/Problems
About K-Meleon
More Information
What's New, Improved and Fixed in This Release
This release primarily contains bug fixes that affected K-Meleon 0.8.
The bugs that were fixed are noted below.
All other new and improved features are included in K-Meleon 0.8 except where noted.
All K-Meleon users are encouraged to upgrade to 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
- Mouse Gestures plugin (0.8.1)
- A small extension to let you bind commands to simple mouse gestures
Improved
- K-Meleon core
- File Downloading
- Browser icons
- Skin support
- Tooltip display
- Non-native dialog display (0.8.1)
- Updated mfcEmbed core files (0.8.1)
- Bookmarks plugin
- AddLink from context popup menu or macros 'pluginmsg' command
- Support for Mozilla keywords
- Support to read and write UTF8 encoded bookmarks. (0.8.1)
- 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
- Support to read and write UTF8 encoded bookmarks. (0.8.1)
- FindAsYouType
- Layers Plugin
- Basic support for "sessions"
Fixed
The fixes in the 0.8.1 release include:
Bug 540: Many plugins only work after loading about:plugins
Bug 543: Popup window is opened in 3 steps instead of 1
Bug 548: Certificate dialog missing OK and cancel buttons
Bug 550: "Javascript:" displays only title bar
Bug 551: Browser window not opening to correct size
Bug 556: Cookie accept dialog out of sight and/or window size to minimum
Bug 576: Wrong icon in tooldead.bmp
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, 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.
- 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 0.8.1, 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 kmeleon081.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 0.8.1 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 0.8.1, please review the details on Migrating Profiles.
JavaScript
- K-Meleon has built-in support to run ECMAScript (a.k.a JavaScript).
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. 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.
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If you save more than one password from the same site, the password manager will not autoload any of the passwords.
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SSL support allows you to browse to SSL sites. However, if you try to view "Help", you will get an error message.
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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 the Vcredist.exe update is installed. Please download and install this 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.
- 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
- The Mouse Gesture support offered by the new plugin is very limited. Users in need of more advanced gestures are adviced to use a third-party program, 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/
- The most current versions of Flash Player and Shockwave Player support K-Meleon 0.8.1. To check to see if these are installed properly, visit Shockwave's test site. When installing either program if you are asked 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 0.8.1 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
K-Meleon provides a number of resources to support your use of K-Meleon: