Pocket K-Meleon V1.13    Suggested by Douglas McFadzean - Added on 24 Sep 2006 9MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (3177) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (24) - Post comment - Permalink

Posted comments:

 Concerned Individual: I've played around with this program and have enjoyed it, but I've found that it DOES write to the local machine (i.e., not "portable") It write to the "x:\Documents and Settings\[user name]\Application Data\K-Meleon."

Other than that, it looks to be great so far! [2006-09-24 22:39]

 BigD: Pocket K-M 1.02 does seem to create the folder %AppData%\K-Meleon if it doesn't exist, but it will not store any data in it. The profile and settings data is held in the subfolder profiles\Profile of the program folder. I agree that the creation of %AppData%\K-Meleon is a portability issue which I'll pursue, but it doesn't seem to be of much significance. [2006-09-25 01:37]

 BigD: K-Meleon's senior programmer (Dorian) reports that the creation of the %AppData%\K-Meleon folder is a XPCOM initialization issue (feature?), intrinsic to the Mozilla GRE. Still, nothing is written to it by Pocket K-Meleon. [2006-09-25 10:41]

 Meter: I've run into "Can't find blah-blah.dll" errors when running Pocket K-M 1.02 on some machines. To make it truly portable, I downloaded the needed DLL installer from http://www.lontronics.nl/index.php?m=0006 (as indicated on the Pocket K-Meleon website), then de-compressed the downloaded package using UniExtract, then moved all the DLLs in the extracted folder to the same folder that has the K-Meleon exe. Voila! K-Meleon uses DLLs in its own folder, and doesn't care if they are not installed in the system. [2007-04-16 07:35]

 Me, Myself and I: Why don't you try to download it from its own Webpage :
http://www.mc-fadzean.fsnet.co.uk/computing/kmeleon.html#pkm

There are also usefull info and links.
Also for the libraries needed for Win98/Me.

Have Fun ! [2007-05-24 08:27]

 Zappa: Note that on http://perso.orange.fr/jujuland/kmeleon/index.html#Pocket Spanish, French and German versions are also available.

ZAP [2007-07-20 02:33]

 Loner: So, this program is supposed to be similar to Mozilla, but the BIG QUESTION is, is it as SAFE from intrusions as Mozilla Firefox is?

Firefox is supposed to be better than Internet Explorer and
the rest in web browsing security. Has anyone considered the consequences of using an unproven portable program? It may work, but is it really safe to browse with it? If you must have a portable, why not try Mozilla Firefox portable? [2007-07-20 14:48]

 BigD: 1) Yes (maybe even more so because Firefox extensions can't be installed); 2) Yes (because Pocket K-M 1.x has been available for many months with very few reported problems) 3) Yes 4) Because Firefox is slower and more bloated, but do take your choice!
Satisfied? If not, please have a look at the K-Meleon forums at http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/forum/ [2007-07-22 15:33]

 Ben: >>Pocket K-M 1.x has been available for many months with very few reported problems

It depends on how large the user base is.

I tried K-Meleon and it is great.

I did not see the startup and page download time difference between KMeleon and firefox on my deskop pc, but it starts up much quicker on usb. My firefox on usb needs 30 seconds to startup.

At the current stage, I stand with Loner on the point of security. [2007-07-23 14:29]

 BigD: Some people have experienced problems with v1.1 running under Windows XP. Please see the thread: http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/forum/read.php?1,72875,page=2
regarding the placement of DLLs. This may help. [2007-08-14 08:12]

 ILyus: Although the link at Appstogo.org is broken, you can download it e.g. at http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Windows-Portable-Applications-Pocket-K-Meleon-Download-58652.html [2007-11-08 06:54]

 h313n: Downloaded it no problem, put on my thumb drive and I am using it right now to surf the web. Excellent browser! No problems at all. Scanned with 3 scanners, no viruses or any malware. Great job, great browser! Impressed I am!
I am running Win XP SP2 Home with a small 192mb of memory [2007-11-16 01:00]

 Portable Paul: I had to use the Romanian mirror link to finally get the 1.02 version of the file. It better be good or...seems like there should be an "or" there.. but alas, freeware comes with a price. [2008-01-30 12:51]

 Portable Paul: Ahh, it's actually pretty impressive so far. Going to try it on my everun later today. Here's a better download link. http://pagesperso-orange.fr/jujuland/kmeleon/index.html [2008-01-30 12:56]

 Midas: For the sake of anyone who might be doubtful after reading the comments here, let me just state that K-Meleon has been my default browser for over 5 years now (since version 0.7) and it has been a real winner throughout this time. It is fast, secure, customizable, and only a tad geekish... 100% recomended! [2008-02-01 02:46]

 Carbonize: Tried Pocket K-Meleon but it has a nasty habit of crashing on me after a while. The full version is stable it's just th epocket version that seems to have this problem. [2008-04-11 08:26]

 banshee: I have looked everywhere and I cannot find how to set this app up to browse https sites? I cannot load igoogle or gmail as I get an error "www.google.com" could not be found. I think the app fails as soon as I try to browse any HTTPS site.

I'm going nuts here? Someone help me out, please? [2008-05-06 05:21]

 Dagenham: A new version just released, as well as a portable one (http://portableapps.com/node/13328). [2008-07-28 06:45]

 Aris: You can download it here, it comes with working Flash plugin.
http://physics-problemsets.blogspot.com/2008/11/k-meleon-portable-with-flash-plug-in.html [2008-12-02 12:09]

 Tom: not esp fast. using on an older 700mhz p3 and with several web pages open it was using up to 100mb in memory. Compare to Maxthon V 1.6 which was using less than 35mb for the same pages. not sure why people say that firefox, K-melon and a few other browsers are fast. they are not. [2009-05-26 18:32]

 SleepingWolf: In my opinion Firefox is NOT better than Opera in web browsing security as Loner was suggesting above. Visiting a certain nasty web-site crashes FF everytime, but Opera takes it in its stride.

Loner: "So, ...Firefox is supposed to be better than Internet Explorer and the rest in web browsing security" [2009-10-31 21:23]

 mchlbk: Pocket K-Meleon 1.5.4 en-US here: http://rapidshare.com/files/369294958/Pocket_K-Meleon1.5.4en-US.7z [2010-03-28 21:18]

 William Bérubé: My Pico K-Meleon (picokmeleon.ca.tt) is better! It only takes 5Mb! [2010-08-08 12:13]

 abacusFanboi: i forget how, but i unzip km to folder, then run. can run regular kmeleon with one profile. but I don't know if that is "truly" portable. (stealth etc) [2010-08-10 02:25]

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