Firefox vs. Maxthon

One Maxthon user, Nauman Leghari,  compared Firefox with Maxthon:

Well you better believe it! It is true..thanks Nauman for spreading letting the word know and spreading the good news about Maxthon!

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Comments

[Losers below]

lmao. People get so aggressive over browsers, calm down. There's no need for those racist comments.

[moserw]

I have just started using Maxthon and one of the reasons I tried Maxthon was because Opera and Firefox were taking too much RAM and CPU on my system. Hopefully these figures are true and will reflect on my system too...

[Andy]

Ktulu

you must be in a IBM supercomputer,

oh, may be the SUN guys made one that you sed may, the SGI, who, knows

the fact is that it uses the IE engine, which is the most sick, including the 6.0 and 7.0 series,

you enjoy your private family videos being stolen from your computer, and you wll discover after MS is dead that oh my GOD, it was the IE Engine afterall that the maxtheon guys are shouting about it,.

have they really done anything at all ?

pitty you

[Andy]

Rui Castro dear,

Hey world, we are waiting for the windows Bingo from his cowshed, or may be his from his milk dairy.

[Andy]

Oh Did I forget, the chinese are really crap
they steal,

they do not have a government, and they are licking the king's ass and of course sure lick their followers too.

Canada, GOD Save you

[Andy]

have you found a worse browser than one based on the ie ingine :)

LOL

even today, porn sites manage to open opups that are fired through a page in maxthon and open in IE>

IE is bastard, and so is any browser which is dependant on that.

Fuck this sick sick broswer, the only thing i liked it probably its ability to block advertisements in page, however, it loves to open up them in IE :) LOL, what a gradma fucker browser.

i hate anyone who propogates this half hearted and bull shit borwser, and did I forget, this is no comparision to FF, anything that it does it perfectly possible with FF. Maxthon guys wait till ur ass is fucked by the FF team, u know ur inherent sick IE engine for sure.

all of you till the time you appreciate a piece of crap based on windows, enjoy being fucked

good luck

[HAHAHA]

I PUT MY BALLS ON YOUR NOSE NUB.

[none]

maxthon is a chinese crap. you are an idiot if you trust something from china.

fuck maxthon and fuck lazy and dumb chinese which the only thing they can do is to still or copy something from everyone else.

make your own things you dumb and lazy chinese idiots.

[Ronald]

Try K-meleon its around the 24,600 k memory usage and fast as hell

[ecslipe]

when i minimise firefox and maxthon. Maxthon use about 7000 and firefox use 38000!

[random]

FUCK Maxthon. YAY FIREFOX.(Sorry I had to post it. ^_^)

[Dead Maxthon]

IE runs native under Microsoft OS, all the resources that Maxthon uses are hence not shown when we look at the exe, we have to add explorer+Maxthon++++ to get the real figure

[penisface]

UHHHHH Memory leak anyone?
Photoshop?

Firefox >>> All.

Fuck you.

[jovanni]

how about security? is it safe for a maxthon browser to go to sites which are adware inclined?

[djhorserider]

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[Rui Castro]

I have always noticed that Maxthon used less more and is much faster, you you use a slow computer you will notice that Firefox is real slow. By the way I have noticed that Maxthon 2 uses more memory then Maxthon 1.5.9, any thoughts?

[Ktulu]

james on feb 15: "Ofcourse in task manager maxthon.exe will use less memory than firefox.exe... comparing those two browsers is not fair - maxthon is IE based browser and uses memory from explorer which is pre-loaded with the OS..."

James, just kill the process of explorer and the entire process tree of IE and Maxthon will keep up running and working fine. That is also for those who say that Mx shares memory resources with IE as it is preloaded by the OS. Anyway, when navigating with Mx no other processes show changes on memory usage nor page usage (swap memory).
Also, Mx has an option (Options/Mx options/Advanced/Free memory regularly) that lets it use less memory. I don't know how it works but thats the little secret, I think...
I have tested Mx against IE with the same pages opened (different pages, one at a time, ie: blank, google (plain, not logged in, nor gadgets on), and asus (it has flash)) and Mx did always use less memory, even with "free memory regularly" turned off.
And if your talking about security... it doesn't matters wich browser a user uses when he likes to click averything, sooner or later things will mess up and wait for the browser to get massive and averybody will know it's details.

[Joules]

Maxthon indeed consumed lesser memory than other browsers...

those mentioned 36 tabs? why not run both browsers and visit the same websites.. and see the difference of memory consumption... i even end tasked explorer.exe leaving both browsers up.. still maxthon prevails..

how about anyone who are using other OS? what say you?

[xTerminus nDefinitive]

I find Firefox opens up at about 23mb, Opera around 16mb, & Internet Explorer 40mb+, while Maxthon fluctuates between a measly 3-7mb. I don't usually have more than half a dozen or so tabs open at once but even with multiple tabs Maxthon is most often sitting in the 4-5mb range.

Not sure how it manages to use so much less RAM than others but having plenty that is not my main concern. I like the features, functionality, interface, looks & most importantly the fact that Maxthon renders web pages correctly as IE does. I've never been able to get into the whole Firefox craze, no matter how many times I've tried it, it just doesn't quite cut it. Opera is pretty decent except the fact that like Firefox neither are capable of rendering a good percentage of webpages correctly.

I don't understand how people can rave about those browsers when pages don't even display properly half the time. Realisticly more like 90% of pages it seems have something wrong with them. Various anomalies of sorts - font issues, margin issues, broken, misplaced or incorrectly displayed frames, tables, images, malfunctioning or nonfunctioning scripts etc. Sometimes subtle, other times glaringly obvious foulups in the display/layout of pages. My own websites may tend to be somewhat complex in the way everything fits together, but still they function perfectly fine in IE/Maxthon & adhere to internet standards, yet neither Firefox nor Opera can handle them, but then they often can't handle even basic plain text pages properly either. Are they built for a different nonstandard/nonexistent brand of HTML or something? It's as if they just can't read pages quite right, even very basic HTML/CSS they seem to not understand how to render as is intended.

It's great that everyone wants to make a browser to counter the so called Internet Explorer "monopoly" but it would be nice if they would all interpret the HTML in the same manner. Knowing that IE is a majority, whether they like it or not it would be better if they all rendered webpages similarly so as not to alienate potential users of their browsers. Most people probably don't want to use a browser which messes pages up so badly, hence Firefox is often considered a "leet dude's" browser, a must have for people that love to hate microsoft or for folks that are particularly paranoid about security issues, whether it actually provides any greater level of security, or not.

Another thing I like about Maxthon in addition to the low resource usage & the numerous features it has over IE or Firefox is that it matches my Windows skin. Although it has many skins of it's own available, it's nice that the default allows my custom Windows skin to carry through so everything is congruous.

[PETER]

HEY sEAN:
Posted by: Sean | February 02, 2006 at 11:37 PM

I use something called "sessionsaver" with Firefox which lets me save sets of tabs. Is there any feature either native or plugin like this with Maxthon. If you want to have more information google for "sessionsaver".

yes - under the groups menu: 'save windows [tabs] as ....

[Computadoras]

Its a great browser and i like the fact that it uses less memory.

[Shukaido]

I use Maxthon on U3 USB drive, and it's more versitile than the U3 version of firefox, but the fact that it uses IE means that all my favs get bumped every time... the memory usage is beside the point, firefox didn't use IE for a reason, it's because Microslack has been plagued with security issues with it. I have no qualms with the maxthon users, i use it primarily off my USB drive over firefox, but gimme a break. They're both decent browsers, if u want more security, though, stay away from IE, it's that simple...

'Nuff Said

[Robert]

I loved the MYIE2 browser and have finally decided to upgrade to Maxthon. I used Firefox since it's been touted as the browser to set the new standards but have switched back. Firefox just is too plain vanilla. MYIE2 was the first browser I had used with all the helpful extensions, ie. mouse gestures, saved groups and personalizeable (is that a word?) GUI. I spent too long finding all the helpful extensions on Firefox and then they upgraded the version. My only issue with Maxthon is that it's an IE shell but with my firewall and antivirus updated regularly, I'll throw caution to the wind and settle with the easiest to use browser, Maxthon.

[Netanel Jacobsson]

Hey John, that was really funny :)

[John Mitchell]

If Firefox and IE had babies, it would be called Maxthon!

So Maxthon it is! Btw, IE7 still isn't going to be as good as Maxthon, but at least PNGs will work then!