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Add to SafariWhen comparing K-Meleon vs Basilisk, the Slant community recommends Basilisk for most people. In the question“What are the best desktop web browsers?” Basilisk is ranked 23rd while K-Meleon is ranked 31st. The most important reason people chose Basilisk is:
So the source code can be verified.
Specs
Question Ranking
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 Open Source
So the source code can be verified.
Cons
Con Dead
Ended in 2016.
Con Stability issues
Con Extremely dated interface
The UI is ugly, which is forgivable, but sticking to a setup from the early 00s makes using it clunky.
Con Windows only
K-meleon is only available on Windows. It was previously available on Android and Linux, but now the both discontinued.
Con Uses Goanna
Its one of the oldest gecko forks which was made by one man.
Con Not secure
Con Security risk
Con Limited WebRTC support
Con Licensed under MPL
which one of the more restrictive open source licenses.
Con Uses Goanna
A Gecko fork that is developed by mostly one developer.
Con Only available for Intel based cpu architectures
it is only available for ix86 and amd64.
Con Limited Widevine support
