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Which Browser Do You Use?
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What's the point of specifying IE7 and not IE6? I use IE6 - powered by the Maxthon interface. One of the features I can't live without is Options > Download Control > (Disable) JavaScript - so useful; and it only affects the currently open tab (and all of its "child tabs"). I find Mozilla's tabs more annoying - they're not as customizable; and when you open a new tab it always opens at the end rather then to the right of the selected tab!
Hi Colin, allow me to list the reasons I love Maxthon. I've never used Opera, and you've probably never used Maxthon...
Futhermore, Maxthon treats ALL "new windows" as new tabs, which is a feature I can't live without. It means I can do anything that IE would treat as opening a new window - and it will open in a new tab. I usually hold-down shift when I click a link I want in a new tab; but there's also an "open links in new tabs" option on the status bar I use all the time when I want to open a bunch of tabs (for instance - when visiting forums). As it is so easy to switch between opening new tabs or not, that is a feature I can't live without. On the other hand, Firefox doesn't offer any of these options. I know you can use middle-click; but you can use that in Maxthon too - and I still prefer to use shift-click.
Maxthon also respects Window's autocomplete settings. I don't like the drop-down menu; I disable it and use in-line autocomplete - if I want the drop down menu I'll click the down arrow thanks. Firefox has no setting to use in-line autocomplete, and always uses the drop-down menu.
You can also disable fixed-windows sizes - this works with pop-up blocker; but it means that genuine javascript pop-ups that you don't block won't be in fixed size windows you can't resize; etc.
Besides all that, it also has every standard feature of IE - which includes fullscreen, and whatever else.
You can remove any menu-bar items you don't want. For instance I removed Groups, Window and Help. I also have the menu bar, address bar and standard buttons all on one line - you can lock/unlock the toolbars too (I have them locked). Tabs are automatically re-opened if the browser crashes. You can select whether outside links from other programs open in the current instance of Maxthon or a new one. The pop-up blocker works a treat; and you can open any pop-up that you wanted open very easily. You can select whether new tabs are highlighted or not (very useful).
And there are, of course, plug-ins/extensions available. Also - it doesn't automically force updates the way that Firefox does!
BTW; I agree that Safari and Opera are the world's fastest browsers loading web pages.
And BTW, anyone who thinks the Gecko engine is better then the Trident IV engine is deluding themselves.
Maxthon had this way back when it was MyIE2; and in fact Internet Explorer has always had this feature right back to version 5 and probably versions 4 and 3 as well. You can use anything you want as an alias in the address bar, basically. Sure it's not the "same" as Opera's thumbnail version, but it works just fine; I used to use it (with Internet Explorer... added any site I wanted on "speed dial" into the registry), but I don't anymore just because it's just as easy typing a full url - and more secure. For instance I do not have a bookmark for my bank's online website - I always manually type it in because anything else is less secure (imagine if you will someone else using the computer downloaded a trojan that would redirect to fake bank sites by replacing your bookmarks and speeddials with their phising site).
Maxthon's tabs are fully customizable - can display the favicon in it (which you can disable), you can select which one opens when you close one; where new tabs appear, you can switch between them with Ctrl-Tab, or the Mouse Wheel (over the tabs), you can close them by right-clicking them - using an "X" in the tab (which I turn off), or (which I typically use) clicking a static "X" for the tab that you can place where you want (for me, it's next to the address bar).
Futhermore, Maxthon treats ALL "new windows" as new tabs, which is a feature I can't live without. It means I can do anything that IE would treat as opening a new window - and it will open in a new tab. I usually hold-down shift when I click a link I want in a new tab; but there's also an "open links in new tabs" option on the status bar I use all the time when I want to open a bunch of tabs (for instance - when visiting forums). As it is so easy to switch between opening new tabs or not, that is a feature I can't live without. On the other hand, Firefox doesn't offer any of these options. I know you can use middle-click; but you can use that in Maxthon too - and I still prefer to use shift-click.
Maxthon also respects Window's autocomplete settings. I don't like the drop-down menu; I disable it and use in-line autocomplete - if I want the drop down menu I'll click the down arrow thanks. Firefox has no setting to use in-line autocomplete, and always uses the drop-down menu.
Well that does sound useful for some people; the feature I can't live without in Maxthon though would have to be the ability to use "Download Control" on a tab-by-tab basis. You set up whatever you want as default (script on/off, images, sound, video, java, active-x, flash) - and then you can change any for the current tab -and it will affect its children tabs.
You can also disable fixed-windows sizes - this works with pop-up blocker; but it means that genuine javascript pop-ups that you don't block won't be in fixed size windows you can't resize; etc.
Besides all that, it also has every standard feature of IE - which includes fullscreen, and whatever else.
Good for you, speaking personally I don't like everything being "all in one"; but there are certainly some people who that would appeal to.
Maxthon has an undo-close list.
Maxthon has those, and the mouse-gestures are fully customizable. Speaking personally I don't use them.
Maxthon has that feature, but I don't use it - I just let them all use up the full page.
You can remove any menu-bar items you don't want. For instance I removed Groups, Window and Help. I also have the menu bar, address bar and standard buttons all on one line - you can lock/unlock the toolbars too (I have them locked). Tabs are automatically re-opened if the browser crashes. You can select whether outside links from other programs open in the current instance of Maxthon or a new one. The pop-up blocker works a treat; and you can open any pop-up that you wanted open very easily. You can select whether new tabs are highlighted or not (very useful).
And there are, of course, plug-ins/extensions available. Also - it doesn't automically force updates the way that Firefox does!
BTW; I agree that Safari and Opera are the world's fastest browsers loading web pages.
See I agree with you; but I can't live without the features Maxthon has that Firefox doesn't. Firefox has no in-line autocomplete. It can block images, java, javascript and pop-ups - but it can't load activex - or block vidoes, sounds or flash - and it can't do them on a tab-by-tab basis like Maxthon can (with the exception of Flash which is either blocked or unblocked). It can't replace "open new window" with "open new tab". It doesn't have the status-bar features like "open in new window on/off" that Mazthon has.
And BTW, anyone who thinks the Gecko engine is better then the Trident IV engine is deluding themselves.
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Very good, educated reply! +rep
You can get flashblock, that blocks individual flash plugins or video plugins.
Open New Window can be replaced with Open New Tab.
Otherwise, I think you proved a very good point. The browser war will never be won because we all have our preferences! And thank goodness we have options and competition, otherwise we'd still be using browsers that sucked.
Also, and I say this purely because I noticed a typo in my previous post - I personally don't like in-browser spell-checkers. I know you can add them easily to Maxthon; and Firefox has it as standard, but I swear my spelling has improved to no end due to the fact that I've always copied and pasted into Word to check (after proof-reading it). I don't bother with most replies any more - and I spot other people's spelling errors easily. So that, for instance, is a feature I'm happy to live without!
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You can get flashblock, that blocks individual flash plugins or video plugins.
Maybe, but adding those plug-ins wouldn't give you the same thing:
Open New Window can be replaced with Open New Tab.
But even with that option selected Shift-Click opens in New Windows.
And also, on the point of Opera's speed-dial, allow me to just show you my custom home page (which you are welcome to save and use yourself if you like it): http://plamdi.com/files/home.php My version doesn't have any links - I added those for the download version on my site.
Now, obviously I could edit and add any links I wanted as well; Opera's version is just something to please the people who want the browser to do it for them. And as a final note; if "open links in new windows (ie tabs)" is selected in Maxthon then clicking any form link will automatically open in a new tab - which I find very handy. On the other hand Firefox does not seem to have this ability (and even if you right click it there's no open in new tab/window) - and it doesn't highlight the default button of forms like Microsoft's Trident engine does. And you're probably thinking "yes, but the first button is always the default" - well true, however if you look at my home page you'll see I put the I'm Feeling Lucky button before the default "Google Search" button (this was done by modifying tab-order and using artificial placement). On the other hand the default button for Wikipedia is Go. There are many of those "little things" that make me prefer the Trident engine above Gecko. With that said, I do use Firefox so that I can be logged into the same site under different usernames - example eBay or Hotmail, or whatever - it's easier then logging out and logging in under the other one every time.
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You can get flashblock, that blocks individual flash plugins or video plugins.
Maybe, but adding those plug-ins wouldn't give you the same thing:
Open New Window can be replaced with Open New Tab.
But even with that option selected Shift-Click opens in New Windows.
And also, on the point of Opera's speed-dial, allow me to just show you my custom home page (which you are welcome to save and use yourself if you like it): http://plamdi.com/files/home.php My version doesn't have any links - I added those for the download version on my site.
Now, obviously I could edit and add any links I wanted as well; Opera's version is just something to please the people who want the browser to do it for them. And as a final note; if "open links in new windows (ie tabs)" is selected in Maxthon then clicking any form link will automatically open in a new tab - which I find very handy. On the other hand Firefox does not seem to have this ability (and even if you right click it there's no open in new tab/window) - and it doesn't highlight the default button of forms like Microsoft's Trident engine does. And you're probably thinking "yes, but the first button is always the default" - well true, however if you look at my home page you'll see I put the I'm Feeling Lucky button before the default "Google Search" button (this was done by modifying tab-order and using artificial placement). On the other hand the default button for Wikipedia is Go. There are many of those "little things" that make me prefer the Trident engine above Gecko. With that said, I do use Firefox so that I can be logged into the same site under different usernames - example eBay or Hotmail, or whatever - it's easier then logging out and logging in under the other one every time.
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