Comments on: Browser Wars Maxthon Vs Firefox

By: Mr Headshot

Mr Headshot — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:02:23 +0000

Yep, Opera pwn’s!!

By: Niraj

Niraj — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:33:46 +0000

Oh, i ran an anti-spyware n found that my Opera 10.60 now works fast enough as earlier it was infected with some malware n adware. Even Firefox started working similarly. But, still, Maxthon is in the same league as the biggies.

By: Niraj

Niraj — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:52:54 +0000

I’m a new Maxthon lover. It looks like the most sensibly customizable, fast as hell, secure, feature-rich browser. I hate Firefox..I’ll go for Opera than FF, but I have no idea why Opera 10.x lags at speed. Chrome kicks the hell out of FF, Opera acc to me and most articles on the web. Chrome will always be special as will Maxthon be. Unfortunately, Maxthon frequently crashes, but thats some incompatibility with Java (JRE) on my PC. Also, IE, FF, Opera dont even work on my PC now…looks like my browsers have been hijacked by some malware.

By: Chris Go

Chris Go — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:58:56 +0000

How Can you give the overall rating of browsers that do different things
Chrome can do everything Maxthon does except for that one little hide key…which no one would use on a regular basis..

Overall Rating to Maxthon: 6.5/10
Overall Rating to Chrome: 10/10
Overall Rating to Firefox 3.x: 8/10

By: Branden

Branden — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:44:12 +0000

You can do #2b in any web browser, and you can 2c in any web browser as long as you have google toolbar installed.

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