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DATE: 19-September-2008
Filed Under: Portable Applications, Mozilla Firefox

I love Firefox. I like the feeling of being secure while I am online. I love all the available Firefox extensions that make my digital life more fun and efficient. I love Firefox’s look and feel and I like being a part of a grassroots movement that undermines the Evil Empires strange hold of browser usage. 

I don’t love how my portable Firefox hangs and becomes unresponsive though. Having to wait for Firefox to collect itself can get frustrating sometimes. Although I will still use Firefox as my default browser on my desktop computers I am seriously considering changing the browser I use on my portable device. I want a browser that opens fast and doesn’t hang or become unresponsive. I am considering switching to K-Mellon. K-Mellon uses Gecko the layout rendering engine used by Mozilla.

K-Mellon is simple and efficient replacement for Firefox and offers the following features: fast page loads, tabbed browsing, supports mouse gestures, allows for toolbar, menu, and keyboard shortcut customization, pop-up blocking, themes and skins, easy searching, and the use customizable macros.

K-Mellon doesn’t have all those extensions, but just how many of Firefox’s extensions did I actually use on a regular basis anyway? K-Mellon does offer some interesting coding opportunities with their macro language and does offer a few extensions. I will let you know how things go. For now the two browsers will coexist together until I decide which one will get the boot.