Comments on: Watch out Firefox – Here Comes Maxthon!

By: ruko

ruko — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:01:57 +0000

Been using Maxthon since first release of MyIE. Tried all the other browser but never kept them more than a couple of days. They can’t touch the cleaness and efficiency of Maxthon. This browser rocks.

By: Friendlypig

Friendlypig — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:37:41 +0000

I haven’t had any real trouble with Firefox but I’ve recently started using ‘Flock’ whilst doing the 30 Day Challenge. It can’t be too bad although I understand it was developed in the land of Oz!

It’s a bit like Firefox with wings!

It’s in Beta at the moment and does shut down once in a while but I like it.

By: William Jefferson Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:18:36 +0000

shuts down all by itself. Garbage.

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By: paralleldivergence

paralleldivergence — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:33:48 +0000

I’m sure you’ll love it Lavanya!

By: Lavanya

Lavanya — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:23:28 +0000

Oh this will be good for me…i just got a virus from a client’s server. They are not too anti IE and every time i use firefox or opera, the browser shuts down and a voice over laughs eerily and a message pops up saying ‘I dont hate Mozilla, but use IE or else…’
Thanks a lot. Maxthon, here I come…

By: paralleldivergence

paralleldivergence — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 09:40:51 +0000

Hey Jerry,

Give it a good go. It’s a really nice piece of software. Ignore what the Firefox fanboys say. Try it out and make up your own mind.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 07:26:37 +0000

Hey – I’ve been using firefox and like it a lot – I liked opera before this. I will have a look at this maxthon because recently there was discovered a SERIOUS security hole when users are running both internet explorer and firefox together – which I OFTEN do, due to having many logins at different blog hosts. I’ll have a look. Peace brutha… Jerry

By: William

William — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 03:22:46 +0000

Maxthon certainly does have memory issues [as does firefox]

I’ve used Maxthon from its first release and when I last experienced problems in the autumn I tested it on two different pc’s with different o/s’s with the same effect.

Its well documented on their forum and Tara who moderates there and as made many plugins freely acknowledges that maxthon 1x has tended to sacrifice resolving longstanding bugs in favour off constantly adding more minor features

Maxthon 2.0 is a new start but it too has struggled with bugs.

By: paralleldivergence

paralleldivergence — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:48:36 +0000

I don’t think you’re at all right about the memory usage of Maxthon. I believe Firefox is more of a memory hog than Maxthon. Did you have a read here: http://www.firefoxmyths.com ?

By: Not Me

Not Me — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:34:24 +0000

Maxthon is indeed a big improvement over IE, but FF, after installing the extensions, is by far my favorite. Maxthon’s tabs are more like K-Meleon’s, where each tab is really a separate browser window enclosed in the same interface. Memory use rises linearly with the number of tabs opened. Opera, which was the first tabbed browser I used, still does tabs better than anyone else.

I don’t see Maxthon doing much growth in the US, because it doesn’t really offer that much more than IE7.

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By: paralleldivergence

paralleldivergence — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:39:43 +0000

Hi Matt,

Sure, plugins can be an issue with major revisions of Maxthon, but my point is, you don’t need any plugins with Maxthon to get the user experience that otherwise requires a dozen plugins and the plugin merry-go-round of Firefox…

By: matt

matt — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:18:31 +0000

just look at the m2 page it also seem that maxthon has issues with plugins when changing version numbers. http://forum.maxthon.com/index.php?showtopic=62166

By: matt

matt — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:12:30 +0000

“The biggest problems I’ve found with Firefox are that it’s clunky, it doesn’t do Tabs anwhere near as good as Maxthon, it’s prone to crashes (whereby you lose the tabs you had open – Maxthon recovers these for you in the event of a crash),”

um, since ff2 it recovers tabs after a crash. it called session restore … http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/

By: Leandro Tami

Leandro Tami — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:38:23 +0000

Funny thing you call old to a Pentium 4, obviously you and me probably belong to different worlds. :S
In my entire life I only have seen one guy using Maxthon, and that’s all. Don’t misunderstand me, I’m not saying it is not good, but obviously is not popular in general terms (I mean, across the entire globe) as Firefox is. And maybe I’m wrong, but I suppose that if Maxthon is based in IE, in fact it’s just an IE wrapper with extra functions, then it’s prone to the same vulnerabilities as Internet Explorer.
Finally, I haven’t seen Firefox-only sites. If you can’t see a site properly in Maxthon then that’s because of IE, and IE never has been a very avid standard follower.

By: Dan Govan

Dan Govan — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:11:05 +0000

I use moved back to Firefox after a brief spell with Maxthon because
1) I trust it
2) It doesn’t use the IE engine, which as a web developer I’ve come to loathe with a passion
3) it has plugins like the web developer toolbar or Aardvark, which are really invaluable.

Also re :”The ability to start Maxthon with my 6 always used tabs (websites) open and displayed right away is a huge time saver” – you can do that with Firefox. I imagine if they’re both being developed by smart people that a lot of the functionality would be mirrored like that.

My only reservation with it would be that Firefox is clearly a memory hog, but I can deal with that.

By: Robert Marchenoir

Robert Marchenoir — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:46:48 +0000

Rugged Shark: Maxthon 1.5.9 build 30 is, indeed, the release I use. Meanwhile, I will try some PC maintenance operations kindly suggested by Parallel.

By: Rugged Shark

Rugged Shark — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:14:31 +0000

There were releases of Maxthon that had indeed CPU usage problems, but they have been fixed shortly after they were released.

Perhaps Robert is using one of the releases that had the CPU issue?

The latest stable release is Maxthon 1.5.9 build 30, which shouldn’t cause any high CPU usage.

I myself am running Maxthon 2 Beta 3 without any hassles and that on an old laptop with win98SE installed.

Sure there are still some minor issues with Max2 Beta 3, but it isn’t called Beta for nothing. It’s a good and stable browser, much more advanced than any of it’s competitors. The only downside of Maxt2 beta 3 is the magic fill, the one in 1.5.9 build 30 works alot better. But I’ve heard that they’re working on improving it.

Overall I’d give Maxthon the big thumbs up and I have even got rid of Firefox alltogether!

By: paralleldivergence

paralleldivergence — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:15:12 +0000

…am discussing with Robert separately. If others have suggestions, feel free to post them.