With the complexity that composes any modern browser, I'm surprised we're not charged for them.It uses the IE engine, so it's not as big a task as writing a browser completely from scratch-zridling
i'll stick with maxthon 1.6.1
lets me use and arrange all the toolbars and buttons that i want. loads in faster than opera and firefox and just seems to have things worked out better. no doubt i could find plugins for firefox that would provide the same functionality (and more) but why bother when it will still load in slower - plus i'll have to spend all that time looking and testing the plugins. (load times are important to me because i do a lot of opening and closing; maybe that's a bad habit.)
okay, my web pages are rendered crap because of the ie engine - but not very often. perhaps i'll give maxthon 2 a try again but the beta didn't do it for me - simply depends on how much i can customise the layout...-nudone (July 24, 2007, 01:20 AM)
I removed Maxthon 2 again and went back to 1.6
- but I expect to try again after the next major update.-Curt (July 26, 2007, 01:18 PM)
i'll stick with maxthon 1.6.1
- very small memory footprint (maybe is just a trick though... but I have never been able to find out how it does it).-Armando (July 26, 2007, 02:41 PM)
- you told it to, at the setup: "Do you want Maxthon to often release memory?"
(or how it was phrased).-Curt (July 26, 2007, 04:53 PM)
I'm still on 1.6. M2 is nice, but I don't find it as easy to use as M1.6...i'm still stuck at 1.5.9 but then i use MyIE2/Maxthon just to view pages that aren't compatible with Firefox.. :)-Darwin (July 31, 2007, 11:42 AM)
.. disables things like flash for all tabs except the active tab ...-skywalka (August 04, 2007, 05:29 PM)
i'll stick with maxthon 1.6.1Actually M2 is milles away fromm M1 in terms of customizabl-ity (If that was even a word :P), M2 uses a framework similar to Office 2003's interface, You can basically drag anything to anywhere, make new buttons from menus, customizing their look...etc
lets me use and arrange all the toolbars and buttons that i want. loads in faster than opera and firefox and just seems to have things worked out better. no doubt i could find plugins for firefox that would provide the same functionality (and more) but why bother when it will still load in slower - plus i'll have to spend all that time looking and testing the plugins. (load times are important to me because i do a lot of opening and closing; maybe that's a bad habit.)
okay, my web pages are rendered crap because of the ie engine - but not very often. perhaps i'll give maxthon 2 a try again but the beta didn't do it for me - simply depends on how much i can customise the layout...-nudone (July 24, 2007, 01:20 AM)
thanks for being here, Mamoun.I have done the customizations for you, download the attachment then extract it to your Maxthon folder / Your e-mail account in case you are using a personal account, or the folder shared account in case of a shared account (Duh! :P) / config /
i have tried to arrange the toolbar and buttons around in maxthon 2 and i really can't get the same layout i'm happy with when using the older version of maxthon.
here's a screen shot of what i use.
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it might seem trivial but this is what i'm used to and i find the position of the 'go' and 'back' button to be just how i want them, i.e. in the center of the toolbar.
i tried to set the maxthon 2 toolbar and menus the same but i couldn't do it. i will try again just to be sure.-nudone (August 09, 2007, 02:18 PM)
Yup, I'm with Curt on this one. Another biggie for me is that a number of IE plugins that I like and use under 1.6.1 aren't supported under M2 and/or aren't as nice to use under M2 (Roboform, for example. Netsnippets is on that I simply cannot get to work. Period.). These are deal breakers for me, for now. M2 is installed but I am not using it, still defaulting to M 1.6.1 :-*Yeah, IE plugins don't work (at least until now), but roboform's lower toolbar works, only the native support is not available, Use the system tray icon of roboform to attach it to Maxthon's windows...-Darwin (August 09, 2007, 02:41 PM)
Yeah, IE plugins don't work (at least until now), but roboform's lower toolbar works, only the native support is not available, Use the system tray icon of roboform to attach it to Maxthon's windows...
I'm confident that these issues will be resolved over time and comtent to bide my time.Fingers crossed. :)-Darwin (August 09, 2007, 04:46 PM)