WOW! Maxthon 2.0 & tour....

[John Jay Smith]

http://go.maxthon.com/default/tour/

After the long meditation, we are pleased to announce the 2.0 version of our
Maxthon browser. 2.0 version of Maxthon will inherts its successor's great
features and bring you a flexible, joyful & convenience web surfing
experience.

This tour will guide you through the most common features of Maxthon
Browser.

You can quit this tour by clicking on the Close button on the top right at
any time.



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[John Jay Smith]

Warning:

that download is only a preview (like a beta), and you have to change the
language to English by fiddling with the question marks where the menu
should be to find the language> English...

its not officially out yet. So this is only for the daring experimenters....

 

[John Jay Smith]

Sorry.. I did not eventually post the download, because it was an invited
preview..

No worries.. it will be in public beta soon...

 

[elaich]

This tour will guide you through the most common features of Maxthon
Browser.

Maxthon is NOT a browser. It's a front end for IE, and using IE, you are
vulnerable to all it's exploits, which multiply on a weekly basis.

 

[clntbrtn]

Maxthon is NOT a browser. It's a front end for IE, and using IE, you are
vulnerable to all it's exploits, which multiply on a weekly basis.

Oh, for god's sake... quit spewing your absurdities.

 

[Craig]

Oh, for god's sake... quit spewing your absurdities.

clntbrtn;

I don't know elaich nor use maxthon. But I thought that maxthon was a
shell of IE...What's the absurdity if you don't mind me asking?

tia,
-Craig

 

[Ivan Tisljar]

Oh, for god's sake... quit spewing your absurdities.

"It is based on the Internet Explorer browser engine..."

From the Maxton front page.

It isn't IE GUI that is vulnerable, it's the engine, the part that
actually draws something on screen after loading web page.

Ivan.

 

[John Jay Smith]

My 2 cents.

Maxthon is indeed a shell for IE like many others.

I have been using AVANTBROWSER for several years that is also a shell.
But the truth is that IE engine is not so venerable as many think it is.
Firefox has its own problems. No browser is perfect....

What the problem with IE was, was mainly its activeX feature that FF lacks,
and many automatations that MS developed at a time when the internet was
a more peaceful place to give power to the user.

Unfortunately some people exploited that power to do bad things.

However in avantbrowser you can disable activex, javascripts, and many other
things that would create problems, and I can state openly that it is as safe
as
any FF browser, if you turn them off.

Infact its better*, far better than FF, in my opinion. FF started out with
good intent,
but it has grown into a mozilla monster it once tried to break free from.
It is now sluggish and slow and needs too much ram to operate.
The only thing that FF has an advantage now is that it has a multitude of
extensions,
that can enable you to do almost anything imaginable. Whoever thought of
adding that to firefox
was a genious.. of course IE7 scrambled to copy the concept...

As for IE7's interface... well in my opinion its horrible. Another microsoft
abomination of the Vista era.

*I am talking about avantbrowser

 

[swingman]

Maxthon is indeed a shell for IE like many others.

I have been using AVANTBROWSER for several years that is also a shell.
But the truth is that IE engine is not so venerable as many think it is.
Firefox has its own problems. No browser is perfect....

What the problem with IE was, was mainly its activeX feature that FF
lacks,
and many automatations that MS developed at a time when the internet was
a more peaceful place to give power to the user.

Unfortunately some people exploited that power to do bad things.

However in avantbrowser you can disable activex, javascripts, and many
other things that would create problems, and I can state openly that it is
as safe as
any FF browser, if you turn them off.

Infact its better*, far better than FF, in my opinion. FF started out with
good intent,
but it has grown into a mozilla monster it once tried to break free from.
It is now sluggish and slow and needs too much ram to operate.
The only thing that FF has an advantage now is that it has a multitude of
extensions,
that can enable you to do almost anything imaginable. Whoever thought of
adding that to firefox
was a genious.. of course IE7 scrambled to copy the concept...

As for IE7's interface... well in my opinion its horrible. Another
microsoft abomination of the Vista era.

*I am talking about avantbrowser

I use Avant also, and it is the best option for me. It combines the
compatibility if IE with a more feature rich and configurable GUI. I think
the IE7 GUI is a disaster, too. Fortunately Avant transparently uses the
IE7 engine which solves the GUI problem.

 

[Bob Adkins]

Maxthon is NOT a browser. It's a front end for IE, and using IE, you are
vulnerable to all it's exploits, which multiply on a weekly basis.

That technicality doesn't make it any less useful.

What IE vulnerabilities? Do tell me about them. Maxthon helps close up most
that remain in the latest version.

 

[rdf]

My 2 cents. snipped some

FF started out with
good intent,
but it has grown into a mozilla monster it once tried to break free from.
It is now sluggish and slow and needs too much ram to operate.

Add my 2 cents to yours.
Firefox is a big fat slow memory-addict. I love it's features and it's
still on my machine, but now I mainly use Opera (http://www.opera.com/)
and sometimes K-Meleon (http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/) which both are
a lot faster on my system.

 

[Stuzz]

I have been using AVANTBROWSER for several years that is also a shell.

But the truth is that IE engine is not so venerable as many think it
is. Firefox has its own problems. No browser is perfect....

In terms of vulnerability, apparently Opera IS perfect...

I'm annoyed that I can't find the website again. But at the time of
reading (a week or 2 ago), both IE, and Firefox had between 100-200
vulnerabilities each, and Opera (prolly 8.5 at the time) had a big phat
zero!

Regards
Stuzz

 

[John Jay Smith]

Opera for some reason, has always been left behind and neglected...

it was one of the most advanced browsers though... perhaps it
was marketing on their part? They lost a grand chance between the
post netscape - pre firefox boom...

they could have easily gotten the place firefox has now as second choice
browser...

The only reason I can think of that might have driven users off, was that it
always (and still does) has a strange interface that people are not
accustomed to.

Firefox was smart. They made it very simple... and gave extension ability
for
the power users.

Having said that, opera browser is king on mobile devices....

 

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Opera for some reason, has always been left behind and
neglected...

it was one of the most advanced browsers though... perhaps it
was marketing on their part? They lost a grand chance between the
post netscape - pre firefox boom...

In addition to interface issues you note below, it's because they stuck
with the adware model for generating revenue. Once Firefox took off,
the market for payware browsers, which had mostly been killed in the
first round of browser wars, was completely dead. I hope their
complete switch to search engine contracts &c. for generating revenue
from their PC browser is working out for them as well as they say it
is.

they could have easily gotten the place firefox has now as second
choice browser...

I think so too, though I'm not so sure it would have been easy.

The only reason I can think of that might have driven users off,
was that it always (and still does) has a strange interface that
people are not accustomed to.

That always seemed like both a plus and a minus to me. It made it hard
for people to switch to Opera, but once a user got used to it, it was
very hard to switch away from Opera. I only know of a couple of Opera
users who have switched to Firefox. (They did it because of extensions
and because of open source ideology.)

Firefox was smart. They made it very simple... and gave extension
ability for the power users.

The Opera interface seems much less strange to me now than it did
before the pressure from Firefox. A few Opera users are upset about
the 'dumbing down' of the interface, but it's hard to argue with the
streamlining that has worked for Firefox.

I expect the Firefox and Opera (and, hopefully, Microsoft) teams will
continue to watch their competition to see what works and copy the best
of the functionality.

Having said that, opera browser is king on mobile devices....

They're so far ahead there I don't expect the payware model will die
anytime soon for that market.

 

[pergurd]

Opera is a Great browser but AI Roboform does a better job of managing
passwords and without it I'm doomed.

 

[elaich]

The only reason I can think of that might have driven users off, was
that it always (and still does) has a strange interface that people
are not accustomed to.

Yep. It was always strange, and I never could get used to it, even though I
tried. Firefox was so intuitive that I fell in love with it.

 

[rdf]

Yep. It was always strange, and I never could get used to it, even though I
tried. Firefox was so intuitive that I fell in love with it.

Using Opera 9 here, looks pretty straightforward to me:

http://www.dse.nl/~rod/operasc.jpg

YMMV

BTW, for quick online trips I also use OffByOne, no css-support, no
javascript-support, no nothing. But you can't beat the speed:

http://offbyone.com/offbyone/