Comments on: Maxthon 2.0 Problems

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:34:48 +0000

Uhm.. what ever happened to my last comment? Moderated? Why??

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:07:20 +0000

I agree with you Chris. For me both version 1 and 2 have been working quite poorly in terms of CPU and memory usage. I used MyIE since 0.7 and was very happy with it while it lasted (0.9.27). It seems that they lost a good developer when they started to develop Maxthon.

If you still want to play with IE based browsers, you might want to give a try to GreenBrowser (http://www.morequick.com/indexen.htm) and AcooBrowser (http://www.acoobrowser.com/).

By: Gordon McCracken

Gordon McCracken — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:40:37 +0000

I have just quit using Maxthon 1.6.1 (Build 22) 2007-5-31
Because after closing the browser, Maxthon runs in the background using 90 to 100% of the CPU. Only way I can stop it is to go to Task Manager and clost it there. If Maxthon 2.x has all these bugs….Goodbye Maxthon for me!

By: qqryq

qqryq — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:02:09 +0000

Maxthon is wonderful! But the 2.0 is buggy. Right. I confirm most of your observations. And those crazy tabs make me feel crazy.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:55:48 +0000

Keep Maxthon 1xxx for now, I update Maxthon2 everytime a new one rolls around and see all the problems too, but then I close it and wait.
In the meantime v1 is running just fine….dont quite know why they started the new one in the first place.

Using the security control plug-in button with scripts,java and active-x turned off in Maxthons settings makes it pretty secure, then if you know your on a safe site that needs those, hit the button![configure it properly first].

By: Bill @ Racine

Bill @ Racine — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:43:15 +0000

I too have tried several RCs of Maxthon 2 and found it to be a bitter dissapointment over Maxthon 1.x I don’t know why they changed things around so much. The whole UI seems more like IE 7 which I really can’t stand.

By: Britto Arthur

Britto Arthur — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:03:00 +0000

One more… you can never open multiple instances of Maxthon2.

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:53:47 +0000

I’ve been using Maxthon since MyIE and I cannot use anything else without suffering exreme frustration. It’s true that Maxthon 2.0 is bit buggy but I still prefer it to Maxthon 1. I had the same error message as Chris and found out that it was because I used “open a folder of favorites” when starting up, but had done some favorite management and I had moved the links. Maxthon in general IS for people who know their way around computers as for example the various popup blockers and filters can prevent pages loading and you have to be prepared to overide them.
Some people simply cannot handle the tab way of working. I personally open everything in new tab but some friends using my computer simply don’t get it. I love it, even just for dragging text to search. Firefox or Opera do very little for me.

By: Nick Moscato

Nick Moscato — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:08:55 +0000

Chris,

I have been using Maxthon 2 since the first public beta and use it as my primary browser at home and work. I also have my issues with it (no CTRL+N for a new tab being a big one and the lack of support for anything other than US English) but have to say that I haven’t had the crashing that you describe, nor the Favicon problems. Overall am very happy with 2 but agree that it has a long way to go before I absolutely love it like 1.x.
Some of the things that you describe such as the sidebar & plugins issues I think that I’ve seen talked about it the forums.
As for the signing in, this is something that I remember from the early releases but was changed so that you could choose to ignore this but that had to be chosen at install. Again, check the forums
Whatever they do / don’t do it’s still better than IE7 (which my wife uses – I can’t get here to use Maxthon – go fig) and will continue to use & support it…unless something REALLY good comes along (and Firefox ain’t it).

By: Craig Robinett

Craig Robinett — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:31:44 +0000

Thanks for your insights.
I recently have stopped using Maxthon myself. I have been using K-Meleon and have found it to be a very lightweight and effecient web browser. It is an open source program. You may want to take a look at it yourself.

By: Kent Smith

Kent Smith — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:21:10 +0000

No offense meant, but after complaining that Maxthon 2.0 is in need of “cleaning up grammar, wording” etc., it’s pretty funny that you’d have a long list of complaints spotted with misspellings, bad grammar, missing words and out-and-out mistakes (you’ve got to decide whether you’re talking about Maxthon 2.0 or 1.x — your use of the labels is a bit arbitrary a couple of times).

By: abc@home

abc@home — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:51:04 +0000

Thanks for review. A very good list to start with for the finishing touches.

By: The Marsh Log

The Marsh Log — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I am currently using Maxthon version 1.6.1 yet version 2.0 is now ready for download. They just finished the beta testing. I am going to wait until they get some kinks out of it. You can read about some of the issues of 2.0 atChris Pirillo's site. To download Maxthon Click Here

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By: izotov

izotov — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Maxthon 2.0 Problems2007.10.08. 00:22 Chris Pirillo sztahanov