I've been using an IE shell called Maxthon since it was MYIE. I find it very functional and responsive, just right for my power-surfing needs. I know it's IE and I know the dangers of surfing with IE. Hey, I live on the razor edge all the time anyway--not really. But Maxthon just kicks Firefox's butt out of contention. Maxthon opens faster, has a smaller memory footprint, has plug-ins, and a lot of stuff that I can't enumerate here.
The big minus for Maxthon is the IE engine, but soon that will be solved when Maxthon version 2 will support the Gecko engine. I'm not holding my breath, but whatever, it could still happen. I have nothing against Firefox except my computer is about 10 years old and can barely run the damn thing.
I love Firefox, but Maxthon is much more practical for me to use as of now. In fact, I'm blogging right now with Maxthon using Blogex 1.2.0., plus IeSpell. That's all I need in my browser. So if you love to live in constant fear of viruses and spyware, join us Maxthonites. I love to live dangerously.
Note: Maxthon is actually much safer than plain-vanilla IE since it has patched most of IE's flaws.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Maxthon + Blogex + IeSpell = goodbye FF
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