A first beta of K-Meleon was posted to the Web on Monday and is available for download . K-Meleon is available under the GNU private license, meaning the full source code is available to developers interested in building upon the browser. Like Galeon, as well as the Opera browser, K-Meleon's biggest claim to fame is its small size and fast loading time. Equally important, K-Meleon is one of the first applications designed to showcase the Gecko rendering engine that was developed by the Mozilla.org team.
Gecko is the technology that speeds up the display of Web pages.
The long-awaited Netscape 6 browser, due out before the end of this year, will employ Gecko. Microsoft did not respond by deadline to an inquiry on how closely another product may copy IE's look and feel. What a piece of crap. Custom News ZDNet News brings you a summary of top headlines each business day.