Maxthon

[danniboi]

Maxthon rocks! :yes:

It's quick & smooth, it has tons of great plugins, awesome community, hundreds of skins.

Everyone should have a copy of Maxthon on their computer, even if FF is their default browser of choice.

[Crazysah]

I have one on my computer and when I have hte mood I use it.

[abc@home]

Does Maxthon have alot of bugs or glitches or expliotes as IE does, Im currently using Opera and im wondering my dad loves IE but he hates the expoites , so i showed him maxthon and he wondered if maxthon fixed these problems.

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Yes, maxthon inherits most of IE's vulnerabilities. But there are some differences.

Maxthon is a MDI (multiple document interface) design. By nature maxthon would always show the active window/tab's title/address in the browser's title/address bar, making most of the "spoofing vulnerabilities" limp. Maxthon also has some security features on top of IE. Depending on browsing habbits, such features could greatly enhance browser security without lossing much convenience.

Maxthon is also keen in keeping the browser as secure as possible. For record, maxthon fixed IE's extremely critical buffer overflow vulnerability by itself 7 days after disclosed by secunia, several weeks ahead of IE's patch. maxthon also fixed the non-IE tabbed browsing vulnerability just 5 days after disclosure, much earlier than any tabbed browsers (eg both FF and avant took nearly 4 months).

So I think that maxthon is more secure than IE, and perhaps most IE based browsers as well. That says, maxthon users are at least more secure than 85% of browser users. Not to bad I guess. :)

[brentaal]

I hope one day Maxthon could let user choose which engine to use

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That already exists. Maxthon CAN use Gecko Engine.

[Inkorp]

it depends on the computer and the user more than the browser.

Amen to that

[shouck]

My worst nag about Maxthon:

When it's set as the default browser, and a 3rd party program, or email link is clicked and Maxthon's not open, it doesn't open WITH all your tabs open in addition to the new tab, it wipes them all out, and opens JUST the tab from the external link. ANNOYING.

Otherwise, totally happy with Maxthon.

[OPaul]

Yes , but does it fix the current expoites. Im wondering if its better then Opera, and if its faster.

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What exploites are you referring to?

[NotChetHanks]

Well, I am VERY happy with it. It is impossible to go back to IE because maxthon is sooo much better. Most people at work use IE and their toolbar gets filled with work related links, mine has all those links in ONE maxthon window... :)

[smaulz]

My worst nag about Maxthon:

When it's set as the default browser, and a 3rd party program, or email link is clicked and Maxthon's not open, it doesn't open WITH all your tabs open in addition to the new tab, it wipes them all out, and opens JUST the tab from the external link. ANNOYING.

Otherwise, totally happy with Maxthon.

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There's a setting you can change to prevent that. Look around in the options.. (it's under Advanced>Browsing)

[Prometheus]

Yea , alright thanks.

[shouck]

There's a setting you can change to prevent that. Look around in the options.. (it's under Advanced>Browsing)

I can't find it. I tried the 'Open all links when drop a selection' but that didn't do it. Good thing I saved a Group before I did it. Any other suggestions where that option is? I'm excited now.. that's my last gripe about Maxthon

[mayamaniac]

I tested MyIE2 and Avant years ago, I went with Avant because I can customize it to exactly the way I want. I can't remember what was missing in MyIE2, but one thing was to add the Ad Block button on the toolbar, there's no way to do it in MyIE2. Also, firefox can't do it either, Avant browser is the only one that could. I'll check out Maxthon (god I hate this name) again to see if there are major improvements since MyIE2.

[smaulz]

I can't find it. I tried the 'Open all links when drop a selection' but that didn't do it. Good thing I saved a Group before I did it. Any other suggestions where that option is? I'm excited now.. that's my last gripe about Maxthon

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crap, gave you erroneus info. Sorry, man. Do you have "handle program's DDE call when Maxthon is running" checked? I don't know why your version should be doing that, since I've never had that happen...

[gazebee_]

maxthon is great, been using is for as long as i remember. :D

[root]

I have tried it and I really don't like it, the UI just has an unprofessional and clunky feeling to it.

[smaulz]

I have tried it and I really don't like it, the UI just has an unprofessional and clunky feeling to it.

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umm, you know you can completely customize the UI, right? Here's mine:

It's about as streamlined as you can get.

[root]

Yes, I know I've played with it but I can't get it to feel right, I guess I'm just picky.

[Bearded Kirklander]

I use it, I dig it, I promote it to buddies. I have the thing set to NO SKIN and it looks and works simple. Here's a screenie:

I like the GROUPS feature a ton:

I also like how you can toggle things on and off for security and convenience:

I'm all over it. It seems like it's what IE should have been all along. :)

[Bearded Kirklander]

My worst nag about Maxthon:

When it's set as the default browser, and a 3rd party program, or email link is clicked and Maxthon's not open, it doesn't open WITH all your tabs open in addition to the new tab, it wipes them all out, and opens JUST the tab from the external link. ANNOYING.

Otherwise, totally happy with Maxthon.

By Maxthon not open, you mean Maxthon is not running at all? Or that it is minimized and has open tabs and when you click on a link, all those tabs are closed?

I can't seem to dupe the behavior. I just clicked a link in an OE 6 email and it came up as a tab right next to all my open tabs.

If you want, I can provide you a list of what my config options are and you can check against that if you wish. Just let me know. :)

[fatchoi]

Maxthon is better as the ads blocking feature and gesture feature are a lot better than firefox. Although there're externsions of FF,they are not as good as maxthon. FF nearly crashes and fail to load. I am switching back to maxthon.

[Zeitgeist]

Yes, I know I've played with it but I can't get it to feel right, I guess I'm just picky.

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I couldn't either. It felt 'unpolished' in a way. I use IE7 now and love it.

[Tevage]

Ive never heard of this browser, but thanks for the info all, will give it a shot when i get home.

[Bearded Kirklander]

Ive never heard of this browser, but thanks for the info all, will give it a shot when i get home.

If ya need any help configuring, just post.

There is a config sheet I could post if you want that covers some of the more helpful settings.

Good luck, and enjoy. :)

[leedogg]

My worst nag about Maxthon:

When it's set as the default browser, and a 3rd party program, or email link is clicked and Maxthon's not open, it doesn't open WITH all your tabs open in addition to the new tab, it wipes them all out, and opens JUST the tab from the external link. ANNOYING.

Otherwise, totally happy with Maxthon.

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Options > Maxthon options > Start Page

Select Resume Last visited pages or open a group.

Edited August 10, 2005 by leedogg

[iReeb]

Maxthon is really great, everyone should give it a try.

For all the Microsoft haters, you can make it look like Firefox if you just wish:

Maxthon is a very customizable browser, with plenty of awesome plugins and skins.

It's consuming very little memory resources, 3mb with a blank tab. Firefox with a blank tab is using 20mb(!!!).

Anyway, I think Maxthon is definitely better than Firefox, and you should all try it.