Web Browser Maxthon

BillW50 has written on 1/1/2014 4:20 PM:

True, but there are four totally different versions of Maxthon and they
are all different. You can complain all you want about one of them and
you might be right, but not necessary right with the other versions. It
is kind of like Windows versions, kind of alike and kind of different.

Bill
Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 SP2


Good point! I'm asking about Maxthon Cloud Browser, specifically v4.x

Juan Wei wrote:
Ken Blake has written on 1/1/2014 3:27 PM:
On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:11:43 -0600, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:36:24 -0500, Juan Wei
wrote:

In the meantime, I had asked earlier what it is that MAxthon browser
lovers like about it and I have yet to see an answer.

The bottom line will only come when you try it for yourself, if you're
curious enough to do so. The killer features that others love may mean
nothing to you, and vice versa.


Ditto! Although Maxthon is my favorite browser, I completely agree
that "the killer features that others love may mean nothing to you,
and vice versa."


If I had a clue as to what the killer features were... I use it like an
ordinary browser.

And I don't ask about what you love in order to mock you or criticize you.

I must be a minimalist. The less "features", the better. (Except I drew
the line with Chrome and its too simplistic interface. :-) My vote is for
IE8, FF, and Pale Moon, but they don't have all that extra stuff they must
be talking about. So perhaps "less is more", or at least can be, for some
of us. :-) Ditto on the newer software revisions, too. (aka: Bloatware,
Inc.)

In m,
Bill in Co typed:
I must be a minimalist. The less "features", the better. (Except I
drew the line with Chrome and its too simplistic interface. :-) My
vote is for IE8, FF, and Pale Moon, but they don't have all that
extra stuff they must be talking about. So perhaps "less is more",
or at least can be, for some of us. :-) Ditto on the newer
software revisions, too. (aka: Bloatware, Inc.)

Not me! IE8, FF, and Pale Moon requires far more clicks and keypresses
to do something. I like Maxthon v3 (some other versions of Maxthon does
this stuff too) because it requires the least amount of effort. For
example for me to go to youtube.com I just type yt and enter (you can
set it for anything). Amazon is am, etc. Then there are Mouse Gestures
that are so cool with a mouse or a pen. And to open a link in a new tab,
just left drag it a hair and bingo there you go. Lots of other cool
things to speed everything up too. Like closing all all tabs to the
right of the current one, etc.

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Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 SP2

BillW50 wrote:
In m,
Bill in Co typed:
I must be a minimalist. The less "features", the better. (Except I
drew the line with Chrome and its too simplistic interface. :-) My
vote is for IE8, FF, and Pale Moon, but they don't have all that
extra stuff they must be talking about. So perhaps "less is more",
or at least can be, for some of us. :-) Ditto on the newer
software revisions, too. (aka: Bloatware, Inc.)

Not me! IE8, FF, and Pale Moon requires far more clicks and keypresses
to do something. I like Maxthon v3 (some other versions of Maxthon does
this stuff too) because it requires the least amount of effort. For
example for me to go to youtube.com I just type yt and enter (you can
set it for anything). Amazon is am, etc. Then there are Mouse Gestures
that are so cool with a mouse or a pen. And to open a link in a new tab,
just left drag it a hair and bingo there you go. Lots of other cool
things to speed everything up too. Like closing all all tabs to the
right of the current one, etc.

Interesting. I guess I don't see it as much extra work, but then again,
I've got time on my hands. :-) And I don't use (or remember) many
shortcuts, either - instead mousing to the menus for almost anything and
everything. With the possible exception of Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V, LOL.

BillW50 has written on 1/2/2014 3:50 PM:
In m,
Bill in Co typed:
I must be a minimalist. The less "features", the better. (Except I
drew the line with Chrome and its too simplistic interface. :-) My
vote is for IE8, FF, and Pale Moon, but they don't have all that
extra stuff they must be talking about. So perhaps "less is more",
or at least can be, for some of us. :-) Ditto on the newer
software revisions, too. (aka: Bloatware, Inc.)

Not me! IE8, FF, and Pale Moon requires far more clicks and keypresses
to do something. I like Maxthon v3 (some other versions of Maxthon does
this stuff too) because it requires the least amount of effort. For
example for me to go to youtube.com I just type yt and enter (you can
set it for anything). Amazon is am, etc.

Didn't work in Max Cld Browser 4.2.x

Then there are Mouse Gestures that are so cool with a mouse or a pen. And to open a link in a new tab, just left drag it a hair and bingo there you go.

Didn't work in Max Cld Browser 4.2.x

Lots of other cool things to speed everything up too. Like closing all all tabs to the
right of the current one, etc.

That worked.

On 1/2/2014 9:50 PM, BillW50 wrote:
For
example for me to go to youtube.com I just type yt and enter

With FF, you type yo. For Yahoo, you type ya. Course, you're probably
using an old version of FF.

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Alias typed:
On 1/2/2014 9:50 PM, BillW50 wrote:
For example for me to go to youtube.com I just type yt and enter

With FF, you type yo. For Yahoo, you type ya. Course, you're probably
using an old version of FF.

Naw that isn't what I am talking about. All browsers including Maxthon
will show a list of possible websites that match while you are typing in
the URL (auto complete). What Maxthon v3 adds is URL Alias. And there
isn't any list of URL that are possible matches. As it allows you to
rename any website to whatever name you want. This is far faster than
any auto complete to do.

And yes, I also do use Firefox v26. And frankly it isn't much different
than v4. I guess Mozilla wants to prove they can never get it right and
just keeps cranking out version after version. And still, it is a pretty
featureless browser. And Firefox is still flaky if you open up too many
tabs. Maybe it will get better once v1001 is released.

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Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 SP2

On 1/3/2014 11:16 AM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
Alias typed:
On 1/2/2014 9:50 PM, BillW50 wrote:
For example for me to go to youtube.com I just type yt and enter

With FF, you type yo. For Yahoo, you type ya. Course, you're probably
using an old version of FF.

Naw that isn't what I am talking about. All browsers including Maxthon
will show a list of possible websites that match while you are typing in
the URL (auto complete). What Maxthon v3 adds is URL Alias. And there
isn't any list of URL that are possible matches. As it allows you to
rename any website to whatever name you want. This is far faster than
any auto complete to do.

Sounds terrible.


And yes, I also do use Firefox v26. And frankly it isn't much different
than v4. I guess Mozilla wants to prove they can never get it right and
just keeps cranking out version after version. And still, it is a pretty
featureless browser. And Firefox is still flaky if you open up too many
tabs. Maybe it will get better once v1001 is released.


Is that your *professional* opinion?

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In ,
Alias typed:
On 1/3/2014 11:16 AM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
Alias typed:
On 1/2/2014 9:50 PM, BillW50 wrote:
For example for me to go to youtube.com I just type yt and enter

With FF, you type yo. For Yahoo, you type ya. Course, you're
probably using an old version of FF.

Naw that isn't what I am talking about. All browsers including
Maxthon will show a list of possible websites that match while you
are typing in the URL (auto complete). What Maxthon v3 adds is URL
Alias. And there isn't any list of URL that are possible matches. As
it allows you to rename any website to whatever name you want. This
is far faster than any auto complete to do.

Sounds terrible.

Yes, renaming especially those mile long URLs to tiny alias is just
awful! ROTFL

And yes, I also do use Firefox v26. And frankly it isn't much
different than v4. I guess Mozilla wants to prove they can never get
it right and just keeps cranking out version after version. And
still, it is a pretty featureless browser. And Firefox is still
flaky if you open up too many tabs. Maybe it will get better once
v1001 is released.

Is that your *professional* opinion?

Naw, just Google search for browser wars and you get a lot of experts
comparing browsers to each other. And you will find lots of complaints
with Firefox and the many tab freeze up gripe is a very common one.

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Bill
Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 SP2

On 1/3/2014 2:11 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
Alias typed:
On 1/3/2014 11:16 AM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
Alias typed:
On 1/2/2014 9:50 PM, BillW50 wrote:
For example for me to go to youtube.com I just type yt and enter

With FF, you type yo. For Yahoo, you type ya. Course, you're
probably using an old version of FF.

Naw that isn't what I am talking about. All browsers including
Maxthon will show a list of possible websites that match while you
are typing in the URL (auto complete). What Maxthon v3 adds is URL
Alias. And there isn't any list of URL that are possible matches. As
it allows you to rename any website to whatever name you want. This
is far faster than any auto complete to do.

Sounds terrible.

Yes, renaming especially those mile long URLs to tiny alias is just
awful! ROTFL

No, what I mean is you may get what you don't want.


And yes, I also do use Firefox v26. And frankly it isn't much
different than v4. I guess Mozilla wants to prove they can never get
it right and just keeps cranking out version after version. And
still, it is a pretty featureless browser. And Firefox is still
flaky if you open up too many tabs. Maybe it will get better once
v1001 is released.

Is that your *professional* opinion?

Naw, just Google search for browser wars and you get a lot of experts
comparing browsers to each other. And you will find lots of complaints
with Firefox and the many tab freeze up gripe is a very common one.


Not here.

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Alias

On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 14:17:49 +0100, Alias
wrote:

On 1/3/2014 2:11 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,

Naw, just Google search for browser wars and you get a lot of experts
comparing browsers to each other. And you will find lots of complaints
with Firefox and the many tab freeze up gripe is a very common one.


Not here.

Freeze up? Not here, either, but I did see some sluggishness recently when I
had 261 tabs open, according to Session Manager. (Not a typo.) I usually
seem to have only 120-150 tabs open, which doesn't cause any issues except
some rather large RAM usage. I suspect the people reporting freeze ups are
doing things that I'm not.

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Char Jackson

In ,
Alias typed:
On 1/3/2014 2:11 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
Alias typed:
On 1/3/2014 11:16 AM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
Alias typed:
On 1/2/2014 9:50 PM, BillW50 wrote:
For example for me to go to youtube.com I just type yt and enter

With FF, you type yo. For Yahoo, you type ya. Course, you're
probably using an old version of FF.

Naw that isn't what I am talking about. All browsers including
Maxthon will show a list of possible websites that match while you
are typing in the URL (auto complete). What Maxthon v3 adds is URL
Alias. And there isn't any list of URL that are possible matches.
As it allows you to rename any website to whatever name you want.
This is far faster than any auto complete to do.

Sounds terrible.

Yes, renaming especially those mile long URLs to tiny alias is just
awful! ROTFL

No, what I mean is you may get what you don't want.

How in the world would that happen?

And yes, I also do use Firefox v26. And frankly it isn't much
different than v4. I guess Mozilla wants to prove they can never
get it right and just keeps cranking out version after version. And
still, it is a pretty featureless browser. And Firefox is still
flaky if you open up too many tabs. Maybe it will get better once
v1001 is released.

Is that your *professional* opinion?

Naw, just Google search for browser wars and you get a lot of experts
comparing browsers to each other. And you will find lots of
complaints with Firefox and the many tab freeze up gripe is a very
common one.

Not here.

I know, your world is different than the rest of us.

--
Bill
Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 SP2

In ,
Char Jackson typed:
On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 14:17:49 +0100, Alias
wrote:

On 1/3/2014 2:11 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,

Naw, just Google search for browser wars and you get a lot of
experts comparing browsers to each other. And you will find lots of
complaints with Firefox and the many tab freeze up gripe is a very
common one.


Not here.

Freeze up? Not here, either, but I did see some sluggishness recently
when I had 261 tabs open, according to Session Manager. (Not a typo.)
I usually seem to have only 120-150 tabs open, which doesn't cause
any issues except some rather large RAM usage. I suspect the people
reporting freeze ups are doing things that I'm not.

Some never seem to experience Mozilla's Thunderbird suddenly freeze up
on them either. It happens to me all of the time on either Windows or
Linux. Especially whenever I am composing a reply. It could last for
seconds or on very slow processors like Atoms, practically minutes (CPU
use pegs too from Thunderbird). Yet any other non-Mozilla product, that
never happens. I haven't tried this on any of my AMD machines, just my
Intel processors. Although nobody seems to know why it happens to some
and not others.

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Bill
Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet ('09 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core2 Duo L7400 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 SP2

On 1/3/2014 5:08 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
Alias typed:
On 1/3/2014 2:11 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
Alias typed:
On 1/3/2014 11:16 AM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
Alias typed:
On 1/2/2014 9:50 PM, BillW50 wrote:
For example for me to go to youtube.com I just type yt and enter

With FF, you type yo. For Yahoo, you type ya. Course, you're
probably using an old version of FF.

Naw that isn't what I am talking about. All browsers including
Maxthon will show a list of possible websites that match while you
are typing in the URL (auto complete). What Maxthon v3 adds is URL
Alias. And there isn't any list of URL that are possible matches.
As it allows you to rename any website to whatever name you want.
This is far faster than any auto complete to do.

Sounds terrible.

Yes, renaming especially those mile long URLs to tiny alias is just
awful! ROTFL

No, what I mean is you may get what you don't want.

How in the world would that happen?

You weren't expected to understand and you met all expectations. I
prefer to choose from a drop down than rely on a browser to guess where
I want to go.


And yes, I also do use Firefox v26. And frankly it isn't much
different than v4. I guess Mozilla wants to prove they can never
get it right and just keeps cranking out version after version. And
still, it is a pretty featureless browser. And Firefox is still
flaky if you open up too many tabs. Maybe it will get better once
v1001 is released.

Is that your *professional* opinion?

Naw, just Google search for browser wars and you get a lot of experts
comparing browsers to each other. And you will find lots of
complaints with Firefox and the many tab freeze up gripe is a very
common one.

Not here.

I know, your world is different than the rest of us.


Yeah, I update and you don't. You advise people to not update and I
don't. For crying out loud, you're still on XP SP2 and, what's worse,
you advise folks to do the same.

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On 1/3/2014 10:59 AM, Alias wrote:
On 1/3/2014 5:08 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
Alias typed:
On 1/3/2014 2:11 PM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
Alias typed:
On 1/3/2014 11:16 AM, BillW50 wrote:
In ,
Alias typed:
On 1/2/2014 9:50 PM, BillW50 wrote:
For example for me to go to youtube.com I just type yt and enter

With FF, you type yo. For Yahoo, you type ya. Course, you're
probably using an old version of FF.

Naw that isn't what I am talking about. All browsers including
Maxthon will show a list of possible websites that match while you
are typing in the URL (auto complete). What Maxthon v3 adds is URL
Alias. And there isn't any list of URL that are possible matches.
As it allows you to rename any website to whatever name you want.
This is far faster than any auto complete to do.

Sounds terrible.

Yes, renaming especially those mile long URLs to tiny alias is just
awful! ROTFL

No, what I mean is you may get what you don't want.

How in the world would that happen?

You weren't expected to understand and you met all expectations. I
prefer to choose from a drop down than rely on a browser to guess where
I want to go.

There is no guessing where you want to go. It goes where you told it to go.

And yes, I also do use Firefox v26. And frankly it isn't much
different than v4. I guess Mozilla wants to prove they can never
get it right and just keeps cranking out version after version. And
still, it is a pretty featureless browser. And Firefox is still
flaky if you open up too many tabs. Maybe it will get better once
v1001 is released.

Is that your *professional* opinion?

Naw, just Google search for browser wars and you get a lot of experts
comparing browsers to each other. And you will find lots of
complaints with Firefox and the many tab freeze up gripe is a very
common one.

Not here.

I know, your world is different than the rest of us.

Yeah, I update and you don't.

Sure I do.

You advise people to not update and I don't.

I never tell people not to update.

For crying out loud, you're still on XP SP2 and, what's worse,
you advise folks to do the same.

No I am not. I am on Windows 8 right now while you are using the older
outdated Windows 7. Nor do I advise people to use XP SP2. Why would I do
that when I am running Windows 8 on three different machines for?

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Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 4GB - Windows 8 Pro w/Media Center