Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 25th Sep 2006 21:00 UTC, submitted by mikemuch
"Sure, you've use Firefox and Internet Explorer. You may have even dabbled in Flock and Opera, or even become a devotee of one of these lesser-known applications. But have you ever browsed the web with Deepnet Explorer? How 'bout SeaMonkey? And when's the last time you used Netscape? Did you even know that it was still around? And that's without even mentioning the really obscure browsers, with names like NutScrape, Orca, Salamander, Skipstone, SkyKruzer, Kazehakase, Madfox, Arachne, Charon, Chimera, Dillo, Oregano, and Viola. Here we'll review three web browsers that are far from today's Internet limelight: Deepnet Explorer, Netscape, and SeaMonkey." On a related note, a new version of K-Meleon has been released.
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Layers have been an integrated part of K-Meleon since the beginning, so I'm a bit confused. But then, I've made full installations for so long, I can't remember the options anymore 
K-Meleon is much better integrated with Windows than Firefox, and can make better use of Windows components. This is very pronounced when visiting sites that makes use of Windows/IE-only technologies. Firefox will often crash or fail to work properly while K-Meleon just keeps working. The chat on hotpeople.dk is an example of this, as is media playback on dr.dk and tv2.dk.
K-Meleon's group functionality also works better (IMO) than the "open all bookmarks" functionality in Firefox.
But the winning element is the better integration with Windows.
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2005-10-02
Hmm... You must have run into a bad release then, because K-Meleon uses slightly less memory than Firefox (perhaps it is opposite in some situations, depending on the site visited?).
You don't need extensions to get the basic Firefox functionality (like tabs). Actually you have to extend Firefox to get basic K-Meleon functionality. True, there are no tabs in K-Meleon, there are however layers, working the same way as tabs - just a lot more configurable (even without messing with text). This was also true for K-Meleon several years ago. And K-Meleon has a preloader - Firefox doesn't. That's a nice thing on Windows.
The biggest let down is the lack of support for Firefox extensions. So many extensions are missing compared with Firefox.