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Add to SafariWhen comparing K-Meleon vs Mypal, the Slant community recommends Mypal for most people. In the question“What are the best browsers not based on Chromium?” Mypal is ranked 9th while K-Meleon is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Mypal is:
Supports add-ons from PM, Firefox and other Mozilla add-ons websites (xpi).
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 Customizable with Pale Moon and some Firefox addons
Supports add-ons from PM, Firefox and other Mozilla add-ons websites (xpi).
Pro All video formats supported
Does better than Firefox 52 in that regard.
Pro Supports Windows Vista
Pro Now supports pdf inside browser
Cons
Con Dead
Ended in 2016.
Con Stability issues
Con Windows only
K-meleon is only available on Windows. It was previously available on Android and Linux, but now the both discontinued.
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 Uses Goanna
Its one of the oldest gecko forks which was made by one man.
Con Not secure
Con Intermittent text distortion problem
Con Outdated
Becomes sluggish when surfing lots of hours, lacks compatibility with Firefox quantum add-ons.
