Comments on: Browser Wars Maxthon Vs Firefox

By: Tina

Tina — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:11:33 +0000

i was just wondering with maxthon browser why does it show your ip address. Does everyone see your ip address or only can you see your ip address. Why do they need your ip address. Is there away to turn that function off. I would not like everyone to see my ip address. So can someone get back to me thank you

By: Nihar

Nihar — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:43:46 +0000

@Gucci, When i made this post. I was still in love with Maxthon. FF is good but it needs addons to get its power That is the problem. Slowly FF slows down.

@that dude, Why do you criticize. As mentioned in our discussion above, every body has their choices…

By: that dude

that dude — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:14:51 +0000

Good going champ you replied to a 2 year old article. If you expected to learn anything relevant here than you are too stupid for the internet.

And if you want to abbreviate firefox its FF… FX makes no sense at all.

By: Gucci

Gucci — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:49:01 +0000

2. Hm, did you know you can drag and drop all those things onto either the tab bar or the new tab button to achieve the same in Firefox? Both open link & search.

3. Check out “keyword seaches” or “quicksearches” in Firefox. They do the same, and more (searching).

5. Again, Fx has it by default.

I came here to learn about the actual advantages of Maxthon over Firefox (I’m sure it has several, just as it might have disadvantages), but the features you list are either unusual that very few people might consider relevant (like hiding the browser), or already work in Firefox without any addons. Please try to focus on the actual differences…

By: Nihar

Nihar — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:39:45 +0000

@Abhishek Dey, I will check it let you know. sorry for late response.

By: Abhishek Dey

Abhishek Dey — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:09:01 +0000

Hi Nihar, I’m using the new version of Maxthon. How can i configure Maxthon to open tabs in background, like in Mozilla??

Overall Rating to Maxthon: 8/10
Overall Rating to Chrome: 8/10
Overall Rating to Firefox 3.x: 10/10

By: Nihar

Nihar — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:04:21 +0000

@anirdha gupta, I think you are using latest version of maxthon.

By: anirdha gupta

anirdha gupta — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:53:19 +0000

in my maxthon the tab are automatically closed so i aware of it

By: kimotheraphy

kimotheraphy — Sun, 17 May 2009 14:38:29 +0000

I use firefox as my main browser, google chrome as my my secondary one.. I tried Maxthon before but have yet to reinstall it after restoring my system to factory settings recently. I agree with all the good things said about Maxthon.. Most of the functions that you have to add on to Firefox are built into Maxthon. However I find the ui a bit cluttered and was a little discouraged when browsing for addons for Maxthon. A lot of them are in Chinese, which I can’t read. Also when I tried to install one of the skins I downloaded for Maxthon, I got a pop-up security alert from one of my security programs. That threw me off and made me wonder whether the addons for Maxthon were perhaps not so safe to install and use.

Something off-topic but interesting nevertheless: I find it necessary to keep IE on standby.. there are some websites that just works on IE and not firefox (besides Windows Updates website)… There was a website to book tickets for a concert and when it came to a certain page as part of the ticket procuring process, firefox just didn’t load the requisite elements to allow the process to continue. I was stumped at first, thinking something was wrong with the website. I decided to try with IE and managed to complete the process from beginning to end.. Encountered something like this on at least three different websites … can’t remember what these websites are now though…

By: Nihar

Nihar — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:29:40 +0000

@supasn, Great to see another Maxthon lover. These days very few users love maxthon. Everybody likes firefox.

By: supasn

supasn — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:18:51 +0000

from the word “I prefer using maxthon even though i have firefox installed”.

I like it.

I’m install firefox3 safari4 chrome and ie7 maybe they faster or so many feature that maxthon doesn’t have.

but i pefer maxthon too cause it’s very easy to use.

By: Nihar

Nihar — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:06:26 +0000

@viktor, i use both maxthon and firefox.

By: viktor

viktor — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:54:01 +0000

hate firefox coz of it popularitiy, but there is ONLY good thingy at firefox that i see, its the firebug and temperdata addons o:

By: Nihar

Nihar — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:47:22 +0000

@Dude,

First of all thanks for commenting and also a big comment. I am still using maxthon… i Love it.

By: Dude

Dude — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:41:36 +0000

Firefox’s popularity made it suck, probably because they started trying to much and went to fast and ended up with an interesting collection of garbage.
I just did a system restore of my computer because the past week 3 times I was signed on ebay looking through things and the entire browser just vanished. Sure, firefox 3 has crashed (A LOT) but not like this and under the circumstance it seemed unsafe.
It’s cute for some things but it stores too much info for other things.

Not that I’m a big myspace user… no really, ..ok, not anymore but firefox couldn’t or wouldn’t allow most html stuff.
One thing I really liked about firefox was firebug add-on but it always took awhile to be updated to work with new versions and recently it didn’t seem to be compatible for a while.
So
I came across Maxthon but I didn’t want more browsers.
Now that I’m back to just IE, and I got 8 because it’s supposed to be safer.
now, that I only have one my second one will be maxthon.
seems pretty damn cool

By: Nihar

Nihar — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:16:02 +0000

@Erbes, I know. But, i don’t like using it for clicking. I use it for just scrolling. Every body has thier own likes and dislikes!

By: Erbes

Erbes — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:54:02 +0000

Darling you don’t use a 3 button mouse, do you? With firefox, since its beginning, just click on a link using the 3rd button and it will open the link in a new tab. Ahhhhh you nerd!

By: Nihar

Nihar — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 11:10:01 +0000

@Tony, Sorry i found the problem and resolved it.

@Chetan, I agree with you. but firefox takes up lot of memory.

By: Deca

Deca — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:33:52 +0000

Firefox still the best for me

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By: Chetan Gole

Chetan Gole — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:01:22 +0000

But still the Plugin support for firefox is much greater that Maxthon,, it will take some time to developers to develope new for Maxthon