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General Software Discussion / Re: Maxthon or Avant?

« on: April 29, 2008, 05:54 AM »

actually, the lightest on resources with a Trident core, and possibly the lightest on resource with a GUI, is MiniIE

-wellofsouls (April 29, 2008, 03:35 AM)

Well well, actually I think that title might belong to Winamp minibrowser
The lowest resource "full" browser utilizing Trident OTOH might well be either Scope or Networker.
Granted, neither has been updated in half a decade (MiniIE isn't exactly up-to-date either) and don't have native Mouse Gestures (so use eg. StrokeIT), but like Classic Maxthon, do have the option to use both Trident and Gecko.

Scope is fully portable (unpacks with 7z , .ini files stored in program dir), Networker a little less (unpacks with UniExctract, stores settings in HKEY_CURRENT_USER/software/famel/networker/ )

As neither is listed at evolt.org browser archive or http://en.wikipedia....List_of_web_browsers :

Scope: http://cyberian.tripod.com/Scope.htm , http://fileforum.bet...il/Scope/984724962/1
Networker: http://www.geocities.com/famelstudio/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Maxthon or Avant?

« on: April 28, 2008, 08:58 AM »

Ah, I see Maxthon's download manager has support for multipart downloads, that explains those speeds. Instead of stablishing a sole connection to the download server, the program shares equal chunks of the file between various connections, so the speed is combined.

-Lashiec (April 22, 2008, 07:24 PM)

Not multipart , but multisource - P2P even.
Read up at http://blog.maxthon.com/?p=82

Huh? I've never understood this. You have a fixed bandwidth, so if your bandwidth is X and you open 1 HTTP connection to it it will use X.

-nontroppo (April 28, 2008, 02:28 AM)

That's assuming that your download speed is not faster than the upstream bandwidth allocated to each download by wherever you download from. Of course on faster connections the limiting factor may well become your 100Mbit network interface or your HDD speed.