Two interesting Browsers to try out.

[Aquafire]

Guys,

While Safari is my mainstay with both Macs & PC's, I also like giving other browsers a spin.

Other than Safari, most of us use Firefox or Explorer etc when using PC's.

Well, to add more spice to our PC diets, I thought I'd like to share two interesting Browsers.

One is fully fledged with a massive following in China.

It's loosely based on Firefox, but in my opinion is actually better.

There are tons of plugins like a Picasa plugin and skins galore.

It is called Maxthon

You can get it here.

http://www.maxthon.com/

This will give you an overview of its features.

http://www.maxthon.com/overview.htm

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In the other corner, is a very tiny browser called "Browzar".

What is really interesting about this browser, is that it doesn't install anything onto your drive.

Its so small, that it works out of Ram. The whole thing generates pages in a blink of an eye because it is only a couple of hundred K in size.

You can get it here.

http://www.browzar.com/index.html

While its features can be seen here.

http://www.browzar.com/keyfeatures/index.html

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In both cases, they are only available for Windows machines.

They work perfectly with Windows 7, Vista, XP & Windows 2000

There is talk about them being adapted for OS-X in which case, I will be looking forward to trying them out.


Security issues.

The ONE key feature they have in common, is that they have a very high regard for privacy issues, with both deleting any fingerprint of your web travels.

Give them a play and tell me what you think.

I know for my part, they are most likely to become part of my way of exploring the net.

Cheers

Aqua
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[Aquafire]

Errmmm

A little feed back (bump)....?

Has anyone downloaded & tried these browsers yet ?

Aqua
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Of the four X systems in the world.

Which would you choose?

OS X : LinuX : UniX or MS-BolloX.

[MacDSmith2]

Browzer is very interesting. I am entering this reply using Browzer instead of IE. It is very fast and uncluttered. But I think it lost all my "new posts" settings on 123Macmin. Will have to investigate that. It might be TOO private! But it didn't affect my IE favorites, thankfully.
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[MacDSmith2]

Update:

I got the blue screen of death on exit while Browzer was "cleaning up". I think attempting to overwrite files without the use of the file system may be dangerous and unstable. They may need to debug that a little more or stop trying to be quite so annal about the file removal process.
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Active: Mac Mini (OCT 09) 4 GB RAM, 2.66 GHz, 500 GB HDD

[Smithcraft]

Next time I fire up the peecee I'll have to check those two out.

SC
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[Desktop] G4 mini - 1.5Ghz 1GB 80GB HDD - Newer miniStack v2 500GB - 10.5.8

[Media System] Intel i5 mini - 2.33Ghz 8GB 500GB HDD - 4 x Hitachi 2TB HDD in a qBOX-SF - 10.7.5 (Thanks Phil!)

Make sure it has pins!

[Aquafire]

[MacDSmith2]

I ran it on Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3. I actually really like that it is clean and snappy. But I'm nervous about the clean up methodology they are using in regards to the file system.
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20th Anniversary Mac, iMac Purple, G4 Blue & White, iBook Clamshell
Active: Mac Mini (OCT 09) 4 GB RAM, 2.66 GHz, 500 GB HDD

[Aquafire]