When Firefox was released, one of the benefits it touted was that it didn’t consume nearly as much memory as Internet Explorer. But those days are gone, with many people complaining about Firefox memory leaks.
K-Meleon is a return to the days of lean, mean browsers. It’s fast and lightweight, so won’t take up much memory, and loads pages quickly. The browser is built on top of the Gecko engine, which Mozilla uses for Firefox. It gives you all the features you’ve come to expect in a modern browser, including tabbed browsing, and some nice extras as well. For example, you can use built-in “mouse gestures,” which let you perform tasks such as moving forward or backward through your browsing history, opening a new tab, and so on, by moving the mouse in a specific direction while pressing and releasing the right mouse button. The browser can also be customized easily.
–Preston Gralla