[ShadowAce]

[frogjerk]

Firefox may die so I'll just move on to the next generation browser...and that ain't IE 7.

[FoxInSocks]

Yeah, like I'm going to install that ChiCom software on my computer.

[ikka]

If it won't run on any Unixes, it won't be very relevant in a few years.

[facedown]

...(Firefox regularly eats up 200-300 Mbytes on my systems).

It only uses 60-80 megs on mine.

[Centurion2000]

Worst of all, perhaps, is that the Maxthon browser is actually better than Firefox. That is, it offers all of the features we have come to know and love on Firefox - tabbed browsing, adblocks, skins, plugins - together with several innovative ideas, such as automatic detection of RSS feeds, built-in Babel Fish translation, quick links to Google's cache, mouse gestures as standard, and plugins for Gmail, Hotmail, Bloglines, and coComment already installed.

And a nice backdoor that will let the Chinese Ministry of State Security and Chinese Red Army InfoWarfare Battalions 0wn your box at will.

[Cicero]

built-in Babel Fish translation, quick links to Google's cache, mouse gestures as standard, and plugins for Gmail, Hotmail, Bloglines, and coComment already installed.

Why is this a plus? Few people would use all of these gadgets, and if they don't, then it's just so much bloatware. You really don't want a bunch of plugins you don't intend to use.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

This new competitor is called Maxthon

Not new. Same old story as "MYIE", "Greenbrowser" and a host of others that are overlays for Internet Explorer.

I have tried them and have tried Maxthon. It is no real competition for Firefox.
I like Greenbrowser better than Maxthon because it is mere an executable with no install necessary, can be run from a flash drive and uses IE on the backend so it is compatible with my company's webpages which require IE.

But I will not give up Firefox.

[JerseyHighlander]

The author is a self admitted idiot. how can you work in the IT field reviewing browsers, know about and explicitly mention firefox's user community bug reporting system, and yet not figure out why you have a memory leak.

Also, everything he said Maxthon has that Firefox doesn;t, well, I'm running firefox 2 and I have everyone of those options.

Worst of all, perhaps, is that the Maxthon browser is actually better than Firefox. That is, it offers all of the features we have come to know and love on Firefox - tabbed browsing, adblocks, skins, plugins - together with several innovative ideas, such as automatic detection of RSS feeds, built-in Babel Fish translation, quick links to Google's cache, mouse gestures as standard, and plugins for Gmail, Hotmail, Bloglines, and coComment already installed.

autdetection of RSS - Live Bookmarks and/or Sage

built in translation - http://backword.gneheix.com or https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3361/

quick links to google cache - Diggler - use force version compatibility extension first: http://diggler.mozdev.org/

mouse gestures as standard - Firefox2 has several competing gesture extensions

plugin for gmail - that' s a 1 minute change to chrome to make right click go to gmail or yahoo mail or gmail, or use http://www.addonzilla.com/index.php?mod=content&read=5 to put a gmail yahoo or whatevermail icon on a toolbar

Blogging quicklinks - firefox2 has plugins for at least 2 dozen blog sites and backends.

As for working with CoComment this author is straight out lieing, or was hoping so few of his readers use it they wouldn't notice he is pulling shit out of his arse. CoComment and maxthon are simply incompatible at this time. There is a big warning on cocomment.com's compatibility page describing how maxthon doesn't work with cocomment, and how a firefox/flock/netscape greasemonkey script makes it extremely easy to use CoComment with the mozilla forks.

I want to get paid to right total garbage and not have to make coherent commentary.

[WireAndWood]

I tried Maxthon a coule of years ago - just as it was changing to that name. Better than Firefox? No.

I used Firefox for quite a while, although I didn't like the way it handled a few things... and no matter how many times I re-installed (or whatever) it refused to remember my preferences on SOME things.

Recently I discovered K-Meleon. So far, I like it a lot.

[Professional Engineer]

I received a new computer recently.

IE has been opened and run one time. To download Firefox.

[lesser_satan]

No way in hell will I take anything from China over Firefox.

[indcons]

Been an Opera user and fan since version 3.0. Think it is the best browser out there for Windoze.

[Clara Lou]

together with several innovative ideas, such as automatic detection of RSS feeds, built-in Babel Fish translation, quick links to Google's cache, mouse gestures as standard, and plugins for Gmail, Hotmail, Bloglines, and coComment already installed.
For me, this is a "so what?" I don't need or want all of that.