An Even Better Browser - Not IE, Netscape or Firefox
Can it be? Is it possible?
Everyone who has spent a little while surfing the web will have had more than enough problems with IE, not least being very serious security risks. No wonder several competing browsers have been spawned.
To its credit, Microsoft has always taken the browser market seriously. Early recognition of just how important the web would become resulted in them 'hardwiring' the software into their operating systems. We know this landed them in court and after exhaustingly protracted legal tactics they lost. Did it change anything? Not much really.
So the market has responded to do what the courts couldn't. Real competition has emerged. No, I don't mean Netscape's attempts. I mean, does anyone really use thier stuff anymore? Netscape offered the most significant competition originally, but it seems to offer little more than bloatware. I can't consider it a serious technological competitor for IE, though it will always attract some of the doggedly anti-Microsoft fraternity.
A recent and fast moving player in the market has been Firefox. I have been using it for months now myself. However, I have noticed that I have had to do several important upgrades (actually, reinstallations) due to serious security vulnerabilities. Admitedly, the Firefox developers are quick to respond and openly get the message out to users. In fact, the notification of the need to upgrade is built into the browser, which is an excellent idea. But given that security issues are what drive many of us away from IE, it is disappointing, to say the least, to have these security weaknesses occuring in Firefox.
Today I learned of another browser. It came very highly recommended by someone I know spends a great deal of time on the web. Indeed, his business is totally web based. That browser is Maxthon.
Evidently Maxthon has been around for a while and previously went by the name MyIE2. Like Firefox, Maxthon is free. It also offers a tabbed interface and permits reskinning to change its appearance and has a related plugin developer community. I have just downloaded version 1.3.1 and will be installing it shortly to evaluate it.
At the time of my download, there had already been 28,432,651 downloads so this product may just prove to be worth a close look. You can find the Maxthon browser by clicking here.
Everyone who has spent a little while surfing the web will have had more than enough problems with IE, not least being very serious security risks. No wonder several competing browsers have been spawned.
To its credit, Microsoft has always taken the browser market seriously. Early recognition of just how important the web would become resulted in them 'hardwiring' the software into their operating systems. We know this landed them in court and after exhaustingly protracted legal tactics they lost. Did it change anything? Not much really.
So the market has responded to do what the courts couldn't. Real competition has emerged. No, I don't mean Netscape's attempts. I mean, does anyone really use thier stuff anymore? Netscape offered the most significant competition originally, but it seems to offer little more than bloatware. I can't consider it a serious technological competitor for IE, though it will always attract some of the doggedly anti-Microsoft fraternity.
A recent and fast moving player in the market has been Firefox. I have been using it for months now myself. However, I have noticed that I have had to do several important upgrades (actually, reinstallations) due to serious security vulnerabilities. Admitedly, the Firefox developers are quick to respond and openly get the message out to users. In fact, the notification of the need to upgrade is built into the browser, which is an excellent idea. But given that security issues are what drive many of us away from IE, it is disappointing, to say the least, to have these security weaknesses occuring in Firefox.
Today I learned of another browser. It came very highly recommended by someone I know spends a great deal of time on the web. Indeed, his business is totally web based. That browser is Maxthon.
Evidently Maxthon has been around for a while and previously went by the name MyIE2. Like Firefox, Maxthon is free. It also offers a tabbed interface and permits reskinning to change its appearance and has a related plugin developer community. I have just downloaded version 1.3.1 and will be installing it shortly to evaluate it.
At the time of my download, there had already been 28,432,651 downloads so this product may just prove to be worth a close look. You can find the Maxthon browser by clicking here.
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