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Then I probably shouldn't tell you about Maxthon or any of the other IE wrappers that add tabs and retain all the ActiveX holes.

To give firefox some credit...it's a lot more clean

the fact that maxthon is used over IE...makes it very compatible...it also has many extensions just like firefox, but lots of the stuff has been integrated and runs very smooth

I also liked so minor features...like highlighting text and dropping to open all the highlighted links. I felt it was easier for me to operate the way things were setup

forumthe community is pretty fast and requests often get a good quick reply a lot of the stuff is run by Tara, who's extremely responsive

here's a linky Maxthon, try it out if you want

To give firefox some credit...it's a lot more clean

the fact that maxthon is used over IE...makes it very compatible...it also has many extensions just like firefox, but lots of the stuff has been integrated and runs very smooth

I also liked so minor features...like highlighting text and dropping to open all the highlighted links. I felt it was easier for me to operate the way things were setup

forumthe community is pretty fast and requests often get a good quick reply a lot of the stuff is run by Tara, who's extremely responsive

here's a linky Maxthon, try it out if you want

That's the job of one of the first extensions I downloaded. I originally used Maxthon, and I was disappointed with the tab issues with FF, but then I got that extension and haven't had problems since.

If you want to keep IE but lose the pop-ups, try Maxthon. It's add-on that gives the best of both worlds.

and if IE gets tabbed browsing I'll probably switch back.

Then I probably shouldn't tell you about the popular IE wrapper known as Maxthon.

- denying it all access to the internet using your favourite personal firewall
- install Maxthon for all your IE-only needs

Here is the correct link for StrokeIt - Mouse Gestures for Windows. Personally, I found it too convoluted to set up, although I do enjoy mouse gestures in my browser.

However... you run a $29 Internet Explorer Shell?

Have you not heard of free shells such as Maxthon? Or even Avant?

Using either over Opera or Firefox is just silly, though.

Though I've advocated (read, bored ppl with) firefox (FF) usage over the last 2 years, I've been brought to the boil with the pop-up ads coming to view on FF over the last few months, my tolerance having been extensively tested with the very sluggish page rendering of FF on Win XP as compared to FF on my Mandrake (Does anyone know why and can he/she be bothered to tune up the engine?) and I decided to try out Maxthon, despite knowing it's built on IE. Maxthon's not as versatile and add-on friendly as FF (unless someone can point me to untapped un-Googled resources out there?), but it's holding up to the pop-up on-slaught very well so far. And hopefully, :-p, this post won't bring Maxthon's usage to the attention of the pop-up coders...

Which, if I may digress, brings to mind the question, who are the people responsible for the evils- pop-ups, spamming, spyware? (ok, before you release the hounds, I'm not looking for M$ as an answer) Gasp, could they be among us? :-/ I mean theses are geeks and/or coders, who are they? Can someone drive some civic sense into their selfish criminal little brains?

Lynch them but don't you dare Flame away!

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Have been around as long as Firefox has, both have tabbed browsing, ad blocking and popup blocking, plus mouse gestures and all the other stuff.

myie2 wasnt even invented until 2002, 2002-07-11.

looks like netcaptor started in 1997, here. (arguably, looks to me like no evidence prior to 1999).

Opera: 1994 Yes, 1994. (mdi)

So, you were only like 5 years out. oh well.

Funny, my version of IE makes tabs pretty darn quick!

It's shocking how aggressive Slashdotters are being toward the simple idea of there being another choice. It's not like Firefox is some perfect, holy browser that everyone and their mothers are switching to. I hate to tell you this, but Maxthon probably gets more users switching to them then to Firefox.

I've never used Maxthon, but I might give it a try.

That's all I can think of for now...how about listing some free (good) games too? :)

Yeah, I went to Maxthon for grins ... it's some kind of enhanced browser based upon the Explorer engine. Which, presumably, means that while it has some Firefox-like features it still has all the Explorer-like security problems. I think I'll stick with Firefox.

According to their website, Maxthon is based on the IE engine, which leads me to believe that its rendering is equally broken (I'm especially thinking about the CSS box model, although there are other problems too).

Not that users will notice, since web designers are forced to support the most common browser out there anyway. But having seen demos such as Eric Meyer's Complex Spiral, I wonder about how many interesting designs we're missing out on because of this limitation...

Anyway, I use Firefox for many reasons, but yeah, speed is not one of them (I don't notice much of a difference in either direction, actually).

The author of this article, is a Linux system Administrator, I can't blame him for not knowing how to secure Windows/ securely use Windows. Linux most likely won't solve the problem, and it also requires tweaking to make it secure. Besides, we still have to deal with IE only websites. Then upgrading to linux is not going to help. Switching browsers will do a better job, especially if she runs programs that only work on MS Windows. And incase switching browsers is not an option, than various IE wrappers exist: http://www.maxthon.com/ http://www.avantbrowser.com/ And there is: http://www.pivx.com/qwikfix.asp I don't have experience with these products, firefox does it all for me.

America Online is creating its own standalone browser,

Does stand-alone mean that it wouldnt take the OS with it when it crashes ? :-D.Stop trying to make the shit taste better.There are already stuff available that do that. Try Avant Browser
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Just STOP re-inventing the wheel !

A lot of folks have thus used IE's rendering engine to enable tabbed browsing, plugin architecture, integrated popup blocking, etc. As a matter of fact, though I use IE's rendering engine, I probably haven't seriously used IE in 4+ years. Using IE as the base of the browser allows me to avoid all the incompatibilities of Mozilla/Opera/Firefox. On my PIII-350 IE is also a lot faster than Firefox. Tabbed browsing, popup blockers, etc. (currently by way of CrazyBrowser, though Maxthon/MyIE2 is more powerful and has plugins to block ads, restructure content, etc.) keep me sane.

A lot of folks have thus used IE's rendering engine to enable tabbed browsing, plugin architecture, integrated popup blocking, etc. As a matter of fact, though I use IE's rendering engine, I probably haven't seriously used IE in 4+ years. Using IE as the base of the browser allows me to avoid all the incompatibilities of Mozilla/Opera/Firefox. On my PIII-350 IE is also a lot faster than Firefox. Tabbed browsing, popup blockers, etc. (currently by way of CrazyBrowser, though Maxthon/MyIE2 is more powerful and has plugins to block ads, restructure content, etc.) keep me sane.

What about Maxthon? It uses the IE engine with almost none of the problems, so websites actually do render correctly. Among other stuff: fast, configurable, tabbed navigation, mouse gestures, very efficient popup/content-ad blocker, shitload of plugins...

Ah, and for the OSS-obssed: it can also use the Gecko engine (some features, like advanced drag and drop stuff, are disabled because of it though).

If only Microsoft followed the W3C in web page parsing and also got rid of all those other technologies (like ActiveX). What advantages would FireFox/Netscape have that Maxthon doesn't then?

Oops. First /. post and I mistype the link html. Smooth. I'll be going now.

Corrected post:

I use Maxthon(formerly MyIE2), which is a shell on top of the IE core. I've tried most major browsers and this is the one I've ended up with. I program and have a couple Linux computers.

[2nd /. post ever]

I was dead certain it used the IE engine, so I checked the new site at http://www.maxthon.com/ - lo and behold:

Maxthon is a powerful web browser with a highly customizable interface. It is based on the Internet Explorer engine (your most likely current web browser) ...

That said, the original MyIE2 site's screenshots do look a lot like Mozilla in places. But the site never mentions Mozilla, while Maxthon's (stupid name) site mentions IE explicitly.

That's interesting to me, since Maxthon is built using the IE core libs.

Maxthon has brought IE back into the game for myself. IE is still about the same speed to render, faster on autoscroll & google bar highlighting.

I still swap with Firefox about half the time. Extensions like googlebar and the web developer extension are definitely bringin it into competition.

Mozilla is technically superior.