Browser Wars: Maxthon 2 vs Firefox 3

I have installed Maxthon 2 and Firefox 3 many times on my computer. I use Firefox as my main browser? In this post I take Maxthon 2.1.1 and Firefox 3 to the challenge to see which one has more features and what not. Of course the choice remains for you to decide which one works best for you. All of the comparisons below use fresh installed browsers, no new installed plug-ins, themes, and so on.

This is all based on my personal preference. Meaning to other people their pros and cons list might be different based on an average user or their preferences.

“Maxthon User” responded:

Thanks for the comparison. But it looks like below Cons about Maxthon is not really problems but your personal browsing style.

I personally don’t like the spell check to appear whenever I write something.

I think popup dialog is more visible to Internet average users.You don’t have to keep IE installed as long as Trident render dll is there.I see it as one of the great leap of Maxthon. Why shall it use slow, bulky IE’s favorite system.

What’s wrong to have the download manager in a tab page? Actually it’s used widely in a lot of software, like Opera, uTorrent web admin etc. A popup download manager is just ‘old style’ UI.
All download history is in the download manager tab… Hey, you said you don’t like popup dialog with spell check and now you like it? What a double standard.

I don’t know what you refer to. But Maxthon can drag and drop text,link or whatever you do with IE. Yes. Maxthon does not have such feature. But if you call it Cons just because Firefox has this feature and Maxthon does not have. You can find really a lot of Cons in Firefox. Just name a few: Screen Capture feature, Advanced Ads blocker, Advanced Proxy, CPU saving mode, File sniffer, Translations, External tools, Boss Key…

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Maxthon Internet Browser is another internet browser that has powerful tabbed browser with a highly customizable interface.It is based on the Internet Explorer browser engine but it may have some additional feature than Internet Explorer like: mouse gesture and others.It just like a little bit of Microsoft Internet Explorer and a little bit Mozilla Firefox feature are add so the result is Maxthon. Or you can say....in mathmatecial situation it is like Internet Explorer + Mozilla Firefox.
But I ve always used Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer(though I ve used Maxthon as well but for short period as I m addicted to Mozilla Firefox) ...From both of them I ve always preffered Mozilla firefox because of its add ons it provides.
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Maxthon 2.0 Features :

* Advanced proxy function allows the use of different proxy for different web site automatically ensuring the best browsing speed and web site accessibility.
* User Interface Multi-Thread technology greatly reduces the chance of browser lockup e.g. caused by some ajax operations and browser crash.
* Modular design loads only used components ensuring the most efficient use of system resources.
* Highly customisable skinning and interface system supports from simple windows classic to the most crafted skins and advanced layouts.
* Ultra powerful filter system can filter not only any advertisements but also any malicious codes removing web annoynances and improving browser safety.
* Multi-users password protected profile system protects users privacy without compromising program portability.
* Maxthon Web Acceleration greatly improves ordinary browsing speed especially when the internet connection is slow.
* Maxthon Security Updates reduces the risks of certain unpatched Internet Explorer vulnerabilities which might affect Maxthon.

Changes in Maxthon 2.1.0.2082 :

* Remember active sidebar of last session
* Added Web Bar and Sidebar entries to Toolbar Right-Click menu and View menu
* Fixed several problems that might affect Scroll Up and Scroll Down one page(76862)
* Screen Capture file quality is set to High by default
* Changed associated right-click menu item text of Windows Explorer in Chinese version
* Fixed Add Favorite dialog not filling with corresponding info when adding via Link right-click menu (76641)

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Recently a Maxthon user has successfully installed Maxthon 2.1.0 in Ubuntu 8.04 and shared his experience in our Forum. Maxthon seems to work fine from the preliminary usage.

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It is a new search engine which has been downloaded more than 147 million times and is one of the few browsers to have mouse gestures as a standard feature. Users can hold the right mouse button and use a variety of motions to emulate clicking navigation buttons. It’s also got a built-in RSS reader and a screen-capture utility. Its development started when the creator, fed up with the lack of customization in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, decided to make his own browser.

While Maxthon doesn’t show up as a major contender in most market share reports, it’s worth noting it’s the second-most popular browser in China and holds 30 percent of the market there as of late April 2008.

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Maxthon has a lot of features. However this doesn’t seem to be much of a selling point these days due to the ability Firefox users have of downloading just about anything and adding it to their browser.

Screen Capture :

Maxthon comes with a decent screen capturing tool available through the tools menu. Thinking ahead, the Maxthon team has created a keypad shortcut for the ‘Capture Region’ option which is the one people are likely to use the most.

Magic Fill

I really liked this one.

With Magic Fill you can save any number of online identities and all the associated details. You could have one identity with fake details for signing up to forums or other websites where spam may be a risk. You can save another identity containing real details for when you wish to use those. And of course, like all the browsers, Maxthon also saves username and password details for websites automatically.

Multisearch :

I think this is one of the best features of Maxthon. You can customize and import the search engines you wish to use, then after a search you can rapidly flick between them to compare results - this is especially useful for image searches.

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