Bawx Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Maxthon. It's flawless. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587205737 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnerhkjp Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Maxthon all the way. I had no idea maxthon was so popular. :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587205754 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techy_ Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Couldn't see that coming from a mile away. Hell if it were between poking both your eyes out or using firefox you'd be blind tomorrow. Anyway, use whatever browser you want to use. Most compatablity? you probably visit different sites that us, different sites have different compatability. Handy features? Try each, my personal opinions on why I like firefox isn't going to be the same as yours. You may hate the features of firefox. Nobody is going to be able to answer which one you are going to like more except for yourself. Some one get this guy a medal! Thats what I try to tell people and I get the whole "well <insert browser name here> is better" crap over and over again. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587205758 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigCheese Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 I prefer Maxthon. List of features I really like: +Great implementation of tabs (and very customizable, you can even put them at the bottom) +Tray icon is very useful. +Super drag 'n' drop +autohide sidebar +RSS sidebar is the best and most useful implementation of RSS I've seen in any browser, it even plays podcasts. +There are also plenty of really nice and useful plugins available for Maxthon. There is even a plugin to check if all your plugins are up to date. +Also can save your current session and open it again when you start maxthon, and if Maxthon crashes it can still open your previous session. You can also save groups of windows which is often useful. +Undo button can re-open a tab if you accidentally close it. +Great compatability with IE. How many of those features does firefox have? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587207230 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eilegz Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 opera or firefox for me i will never use IE unless for windows update or windows live mal or any microsoft specific site, i dun use maxthon because its just IE rebranded or we can say IE skin or frontend. IE its proven to be very insecure and easy to gt spywares (not a big problem for me but for my family is it) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587207242 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mastertech Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 I'd go with Firefox... Much more secure, much more standards compliant, and much more features (extensions, anyone?). I think he is refering to Opera here. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587210362 Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew_f Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 I support free choice of anything but really I prefer Firefox or Opera - its just all the problems I have had to sort out because of incompitance with IE in the past is crazy. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587210377 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrislee149 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 (edited) I've been trying to get Firefox up to Maxthon's speed, but it just can't compare. I tried loading an InvisionFree board in both to test (probably not the most accurate test, but couldn't find anything else). IE and Maxthon loaded in ~.01 seconds and Firefox took ~.05. Might not seem like a long time for Firefox, but it seems so slow after using Maxthon. I used to lecture about how FF is so much faster than IE, but Maxthon just loaded a lot faster. And after I just tried it in IE, it's even faster than Maxthon (it takes about .007 seconds for the same page). No, I won't go back to IE, because of it's lack of useful features, but Maxthon seems just right. According to this test (again, not the most accurate, perhaps, but still demonstrates the point), IE is 30% faster than Maxthon, although the difference isn't that noticable. However, Maxthon is 400% faster than Firefox. *shrug* Maybe my comp is just screwed up for Firefox. EDIT: Just retryed that page in Firefox; only takes .02-.03 seconds. I may switch back, since I did try optimizing Firefox for better performance. I doubt it will be as fast as IE/Maxthon, but Firefox does have better features and interface (although Maxthon also has some useful features that Firefox lacks). I'm not trying to be biased, just trying to find the best. EDIT2: Ran this test: http://nontroppo.org/timer/ . Maxthon loads double or triple the speed of Firefox for each attribute. IE loads about 1/3 faster than Maxthon. About the same results as the InvisionFree board test. Edited February 18, 2006 by chrislee149 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587210617 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexMagik Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 unlucky, it is true, FF is slower than IE/Opera/Maxthon.. i use phpmyadmin on my website, 84 tables, and Opera is the fastest to display all, IE/Maxthon next, and FF is just taking too long, really too long, and too much cpu... The only problem of switching away from FF is the adblock, none of them have a good adblock as firefox :( like the obj-tags... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587210653 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mastertech Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 You forgot Mozilla, FF is slower than Mozilla as well. The whole FF is faster than anything is a Myth. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587210727 Share on other sites More sharing options...
leedogg Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Maxthon. I highlight an address, copy it, hit ctrl+n and it googles that address in a new tab. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587210908 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leddy Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Maxathon > Firefox. Do YOU want to switch browsers back before using a complex AJAX-powered site, or using a site with ActiveX controls? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587210935 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcdShdw Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 You forgot Mozilla, FF is slower than Mozilla as well.The whole FF is faster than anything is a Myth. :blink: wtf?!??! :rofl: :laugh: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587210967 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted February 18, 2006 Veteran Share Posted February 18, 2006 Standards compliance is an illusion, the only standards that count are the ones webmasters follow, for which Maxthon/IE is better. ... Now, i hear this a lot, and it doesn't really make sense to me. the problem is web-masters don't follow many standards, and tag soup isn't really a standard (and as such, IE can screw up on tag soup just as much as any other browser can), and even as MS move towards making IE a standards compliant browser, i still keep hearing this argument brought up in support of old IE (6 and lower), when it only means IE has a better tag soup parser. Also, I don't think quirks mode is being updated any more (good thing, if they want to use new features, make it valid), as all enhancements i am hearing of from the IE Team only mention strict mode. And when you think about it, only old, old pages would exhibit any problems moving forward, as most new sites are designed to work with standards compliant engines (e.g. Trident in IE7, Gecko, Presto, WebKit, etc.) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587211009 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEVER85 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 You forgot Mozilla, FF is slower than Mozilla as well. The whole FF is faster than anything is a Myth. Of course you'd say so, given how you present anything and everything about Firefox in a negative light, without any evidence to support your claims. Your unfounded opinions are not facts, either. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587211197 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leddy Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 As far as rendering speed is concerned, Opera leads IE by 100ms at 1400ms, then IE7 at 1500ms, then Firefox at an abysmal 2000ms. Ha. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587211285 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Litespeed Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Maxthon all the way. I had no idea maxthon was so popular. :) Approaching 50 million downloads too. Even if you discard half of those for re-downloads etc, that's still a large download count. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587211328 Share on other sites More sharing options...
abc@home Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Approaching 50 million downloads too. Even if you discard half of those for re-downloads etc, that's still a large download count. Actually the download could be 3 or 4 times of this. It is extremely popular in China and tops all browser download in every Chinese download site (several dozens). Just 4 or 5 more popular unofficial Chinese download sites would already exceed the official number. :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587211826 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mastertech Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 Of course you'd say so, given how you present anything and everything about Firefox in a negative light, without any evidence to support your claims. Your unfounded opinions are not facts, either. What? Did you read my page and the Sources? I have all the evidence here.Don't try to spin things when you know I have evidence for EVERYTHING I claim. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587214145 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nix Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 Maxthon. I highlight an address, copy it, hit ctrl+n and it googles that address in a new tab. firefox does this too. Cept I dont have to copy and hit ctrl+n. I Just select search web. Not a big deal though. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587214160 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEVER85 Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 What? Did you read my page and the Sources? I have all the evidence here. Don't try to spin things when you know I have evidence for EVERYTHING I claim. How is this evidence? Browser statistics were determined using set hardware. The results could (and likely would) be different with varying types of hardware. Besides, according to this, only Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 was tested. I'm not saying 1.5 Final or 1.5.0.1 would be blazingly fast by comparison to Beta 2, but what you presented as evidence is nothing but conjecture. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587216057 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSN6 Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 Hi, How to install Maxthon plugins? and how to find what the plug-ins installed? Which are most useful plug-ins? TIA :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587217255 Share on other sites More sharing options...
linx05 Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Just unzip the folder from the .zip file to the plugins folder in the Maxthon directory. If you want to know what plugins you have installed, go to Options > Maxthon Options > Plugin. As for what is the most useful plugins, only you can decide that. But I have found the Plugin Manager, More Options and BB Codes to be the most popular in my setup. Just have a look at the Plugin Forum and the Plugin Database. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587219918 Share on other sites More sharing options...
phot0nic Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 I prefer Maxthon. List of features I really like: +Great implementation of tabs (and very customizable, you can even put them at the bottom) +Tray icon is very useful. +Super drag 'n' drop +autohide sidebar +RSS sidebar is the best and most useful implementation of RSS I've seen in any browser, it even plays podcasts. +There are also plenty of really nice and useful plugins available for Maxthon. There is even a plugin to check if all your plugins are up to date. +Also can save your current session and open it again when you start maxthon, and if Maxthon crashes it can still open your previous session. You can also save groups of windows which is often useful. +Undo button can re-open a tab if you accidentally close it. +Great compatability with IE. How many of those features does firefox have? All of them. There is no feature listed here that either my firefox does not already do, or cannot easily do. But yeah, choose what you like best and such... oh, and don't listen to Mastertech. He doesn't know what he's talking about. I've seen Firefox slower than IE on some machines, and faster than IE on other machines. The two are about the same as far as rendering speed on my machine. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587220268 Share on other sites More sharing options...
felixml Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 May be Maxthon is good for some, but I could not open more than 17 windows, and since I run close to 50 all day long, to me it is totally useless Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/429493-maxthon-vs-firefox/page/2/#findComment-587220277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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