Microsoft has given us the choice of 12 browsers and I’ve started trialling them – giving each one a week – last week I’ve been using K-Meleon.

First Looks and K-Meleon looks fine – however it won’t correctly set itself as default for short cut links on the Windows desktop or those from within emails. I also use iGoogle which K-Meleon makes something of a mess of – it seems any widgets with a password won’t work correctly – then Google docs has the message “Google Docs is not supported in your browser” but worked fine for me.

Then there’s no search box – I looked in the tutorial and FAQ’s and couldn’t find a solution – it seems what you should do is type a word or phrase in the URL bar and then click a button – I wasn’t impressed and I couldn’t seem how to configure the search to Google UK and not COM – I guess I might get to the bottom of these problems but life’s too short.

In the end K-Meleon is far to annoying to use and I’m happy to be moving on to Maxthon2.