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K-Meleon vs Slimjet

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When comparing K-Meleon vs Slimjet, the Slant community recommends K-Meleon for most people. In the question“What are the best desktop web browsers?” K-Meleon is ranked 31st while Slimjet is ranked 60th. The most important reason people chose K-Meleon is:

No malware/adware toolbars/extensions can be injected. You can switch off Java, JS, Flash, popups, and Ads from the toolbar or with a hotkey.

Specs

Based OnMozilla Firefox ESR

Browser EngineGoanna (Gecko-fork)

Based OnChromium

Browser EngineBlink

Default Search EngineGoogle

LicenseProprietary

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Pros

Pro
Secure and fully under user control

No malware/adware toolbars/extensions can be injected. You can switch off Java, JS, Flash, popups, and Ads from the toolbar or with a hotkey.

Pro
Extremely customizable

Almost every detail can be personalized:

skin
buttons (icon theme and on/off state)
toolbar placement
menus
number of settings and preferences
proxies (add and switch with ease)
locale (switch on the fly without downloads and restarts)
etc.

Pro
Fast and lightweight

Light on memory footprint: the smallest RAM amount used among all the modern browsers. Fastest application startup. Very responsive. Invaluable on the older and low-end hardware.

Pro
Highly extensible

Has hundreds of its native extensions written on its own macrolanguage.
Supports dozens of XPI-extensions for Firefox.

Pro
Native

Pro
Fast and stable

Lower memory footprint and CPU usage than Chromium.

Pro
Built-in adblock

Supports adding lists in ublock, adblock, adblockplus, and peerblock/peerguardian text formats.

Pro
Allows for no tracking

Has advanced settings to reduce web presence footprint.

Pro
Built-in download manager

Multi-threaded streaming download manager with resume functionality. Interrupted downloads will resume when the program is launched again; number of threads and download location customizable on a per-download basis. Actually downloads Linux ISO's from most popular distributions faster than deluge, utorrent, transmission, etc.

Pro
Still compatible with Google's ChromeSync functionality

Pro
Notes plugin available

Pro
Easily customize to stop spying verified by OpenSnitch

Just have to dig into all the Settings and disable them starting with SlimJet search.

Pro
Customizable options to add additional buttons next to the address bar

Optional buttons such as go to home page, reopen closed tab, go to downloads, go to history and many more.

Pro
Built-in Youtube/html5/flash downloader

Allows for downloading both video and extracted mp3 audio, a la Youtube2mp3.

Pro
Cross-platform, with zipped portable application available for Windows

You can still bring it with you on a flash drive, even when you're not on Linux.

Pro
Screen recording tools built in

Pro
Separate from Google's servers and tracking

Pro
Integrated shopping and share-to-social-media function

Button is linked to cookies, so doesn't work if signed out (for security/privacy), and also doesn't include any additional tracking like a browser extension would (Facebook, Amazon, etc.)

Pro
Verbose resource management

Has a setting to unload tabs from RAM and CPU usage after a customizable threshold number of tabs are open built in.

Pro
Idle tab unloading and other advanced features not found in Chrome/Chromium

A lot more configuration options for everything from built in "share to facebook" buttons to options meant to enable optimization on low powered/low RAM systems.