Is Maxthon a good alternative for Firefox?
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strokerace
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What problem are you talking about? If you are meaning with posting to a forum. It may not be the browser issue per say. It could be poorly configured code and a poor server connection that the forum is on. Every browser can render a site differently. A lot of sites are also set up different depending on what browser the coder uses. It also depends on the O/S that you have the browser installed on. For an example. I was coding an app and I was using firefox and Chrome to adjust the code. I was on windows XP. I changed some code and it looked good and worked for me in both browsers. How ever, the owner of the site did not see the updates. He kept seeing the errors even though I had changed the code. He was using firefox on a Mac. It drove me nuts because to me, the errors was fixed, yet he was telling me they were not. It ened up, Mac Firefox didn't update the cache like to did on windows when you refreshed the page. He had to go into the setting and fix the issue. Then he say the updates the way I did. We wasted several hours over it. I also tweak my firefox. There are tips and tricks out there to help improve the performance of firefox also.
Yozora
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Looks like Maxthon's based on IE & made by a Chinese company: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxthon
Is it actually good?
Is it actually good?
Maxthon was based on trident and was known as MyIE2 but has switched to Chromium 2/3 years ago. Thus (as far as I'm concerned) Maxthon is just another fork of Chromium/Google Chrome (any other feature that they may have added is just a marketing gimmick.)Yozora said:
It's hard to make a browser from scratch nowadays. The sad part of this is that the choice is reduced to the 4 major players (--I'm not counting FF's or Chromium's clones.)
Maxthon was a great browser because it had adblock built into its browser as well as you could add bandwidth, cpu, and memory specs as well. My problem is that most of the time it would play youtube videos and it would stutter, audio and video....really bad.
Seems to have been the latest build as I uninstalled it and went back to the older release and everything works fine. It also seems to not display some sites with certain SSL certificates properly.
I have been tearing into the settings (about:config) to see if it could be a rendering option.
Seems to have been the latest build as I uninstalled it and went back to the older release and everything works fine. It also seems to not display some sites with certain SSL certificates properly.
I have been tearing into the settings (about:config) to see if it could be a rendering option.
DrizzyAmerica
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Maxthon is what I use, that or Chrome. I like both a lot, I have problems with Chome though alot because of the mass amount of opminimized.
hichemos14
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i use it now . maxthon is the best browser (my opinion) because its fast and easy
There is no good alternative for Firefox, althogh this of course depends what purpose do you need te browser for. I tried Maxthon, and it is Ok browser, and there are many decent alternatives to major players, and many specialise in particular features like privacy, proxy support, ect. yet in tearms of loading speed Firefox and Chrome are the fastest.