Post by mikkh on Aug 27, 2014 12:25:45 GMT
I've mentioned this in another thread, but having just been offered the latest update in Synaptic (PClinuxOS) and spotting a rather neat addition to it, I'll bring it to Linux users attention again
For anyone who knows Maxthon in Windows, they may be a little puzzled by the Linux version because it (the Windows version) uses parts of the Microsoft IE browser and IE isn't available for Linux right?
Correct, well not natively anyway - you could run it via the 'Wine' emulator if you wanted, but that always seems pointless to me when any emulated software is a compromise and invariably incurs a speed loss at best and glitches galore at worst.
Maxthon for Linux is a bit of a cheat though, it's a Maxthon 'skin' to the Chromium browser, rather than a real Linux port of the Windows version - and that turns out to be not such a bad thing
It comes with adblock as standard and the latest little tweak I mentioned is a little 'f' representing another extension installed by default
'f' basically means Flash and allows you to switch between the latest Flash (currently 14.0.0.177) and the 'official' Adobe Linux (11.2 r202) version. This can be useful for sites not geared towards the latest versions of Flash or ones that seem quicker on the older version.
Some people in Linux switch between Chrome and Firefox to achieve the same effect, but now you can do it within the same browser and get some Maxthon features as a bonus
You don't get all the features of Maxthon, but I find the Windows version a bit too busy and cluttered for my liking, so I consider that a bonus myself
For anyone who knows Maxthon in Windows, they may be a little puzzled by the Linux version because it (the Windows version) uses parts of the Microsoft IE browser and IE isn't available for Linux right?
Correct, well not natively anyway - you could run it via the 'Wine' emulator if you wanted, but that always seems pointless to me when any emulated software is a compromise and invariably incurs a speed loss at best and glitches galore at worst.
Maxthon for Linux is a bit of a cheat though, it's a Maxthon 'skin' to the Chromium browser, rather than a real Linux port of the Windows version - and that turns out to be not such a bad thing
It comes with adblock as standard and the latest little tweak I mentioned is a little 'f' representing another extension installed by default
'f' basically means Flash and allows you to switch between the latest Flash (currently 14.0.0.177) and the 'official' Adobe Linux (11.2 r202) version. This can be useful for sites not geared towards the latest versions of Flash or ones that seem quicker on the older version.
Some people in Linux switch between Chrome and Firefox to achieve the same effect, but now you can do it within the same browser and get some Maxthon features as a bonus
You don't get all the features of Maxthon, but I find the Windows version a bit too busy and cluttered for my liking, so I consider that a bonus myself
