I don’t have anything against Firefox. It’s a nice little program – nice in the same way  roller skates are a nice means of transportation compared to a Ferrari. What gets me is how overrated it its.  I can only imagine that people who go all orgasmic over Fiirefox just haven’t drive  the Ferrari of browsers,  Maxthon.  One of those people is Chris Null, whom I worked with in a previous incarnation.   Chris  recently wrote  a story for PCWorld online  about how to improve how your software works.  When it came to browsers,  Chris limited his tips to Internet Explorer and Firefox—mostly Firefox.  Nothing wrong with that. A lot of people use Firefox, and I’m sure they appreciated his explanations of how to expand the capabilities of Firefox through plug-ins.  And I’m sure they would have appreciated being told that most of the functions added to Firefox through plug-ins come built into Maxthon 2. 

For eight of his tips, six took the form of add-ins for Firefox, and one of them cost $30. Maxthon installs with six of those same features built in. No more downloading to do. No more buying add-ins.  My biggest laugh, though, came when Mr. Null explained how  to make Firefox’s sidebar move to the right side of the screen. It involved finding Firefox’s  sometimes hidden userChrome.css file  and adding three lines of code.  In Maxthon, you click on the sidebar and drag it to the right side of the screen.  Or, back to the left side. Or, to the top, or to the bottom, or to a second screen if you’re two-timing  your displays.Chris should do his readers and himself a favor and just see how much you can do with Maxthon without adding on a single plug-in or paying a penny.