Thread: K-Meleon

The open source browser K-Meleon has had a small, but loyal following since it was launched back in 2000. At that time, it lacked many important features, but nine years down the line and it has caught up with the competition. Today, it's a robust and usable all-purpose browser, suitable for most users. It is also light on resources and consumes only around 12 MB of RAM while running with one tab open.

One of the better-known browsers, Opera, is liked by many simply because fact you get the complete package all in one go. Firefox, on theplug-ins and add-ons to get it up to speed. The K-Meleon browser is more like Opera, in that it comes most goodies built-in. It is feature-packed, but also has support for add-ons.

A built-in ad blocker, mouse gestures and a news feed reader are just some of th features that come with K-Meleon, so clea you won't be missing out on anything major. One feature that speeds

up the load time of K-Meleon 4 is a loader application that sits in your system tray. Double- clicking it opens the browser within a second on almost any system. The only minor downside is that this uses a small amount of memory.