MichaelC362

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  1. Hello! Manually installed 7.1.7.9000 - wasn't prompted about update & said was up-to-date before - didn't restart after finishing & when manually started, had white screen for quite a while. Also didn't offer to create a shortcut on taskbar. Then went to check version & said need to restart to apply(!), did & now upgraded to 7.1.7.6001. The "Follow Twitter/X" text should be changed to "Follow on X (Twitter)" as it's not been called Twitter for quite some time! When the info page is displayed after an upgrade, the 'bird' logo isn't correct for "X" as that's the old one for "Twitter", which is no more. For me, the video download feature has never worked
  2. Hello! Re. "Supermium" (above) - Windows XP, Vista, 7, etc compatible, latest Chromium browser fork... This clearly isn't a huge/major company developing this project, but 3 points I'd like to bring to your attention: -Turnaround for major vulnerability patches generally less than one week from upstream disclosure -Google Sync -On Windows 7 and up, Widevine CDM support for viewing DRM content If they can do it, so can you (Maxthon). Sorry, but I just don't believe you when you say Google aren't replying to you when you requested Widevine - obviously, even if they had a backlog, this has been ongoing for YEARS & you can't simply ignore it, Maxthon MUST have Widevine support. These people, who aren't well known, have it, so Maxthon, who are internationally known for over 20 years, certainly should have it too. Whatever the real reason for not having it, get over it as it's preventing anyone who wants to stream DRM content from using Maxthon. If a user can't use a browser for all web content, they'll simply change to another that does work. All you're doing here, not updating the core & being compatible, is lose ever more users!
  3. Hello! From Quick Launch, clicking 'MaxNote' at the top & then moving cursor to the sidebar edge, so the cursor changes to "<-|->" & clicking to resize, the vertical line moves with the mouse, but then can't be released! Clicking left or middle button or pressing ESCape does nothing, right click brings up menu, but only refreshing (F5) the page exits the resize & it drops back to where it was!
  4. I've installed Qihoo 360 Total Security 100s of times on customers computers in the past & even used it myself for a while, but since they dropped Bitdefender & then Avira scanning engines, I can't really recommend it anymore... It's saving grace however, is the sandbox, so as long as you don't allow anything to run that you don't recognize, then you would probably be fine (run scans with ADWCleaner, HitmanPro & AutoRuns (with VirusTotal lookup)). For me, what I've seen with Maxthon before, is old settings affecting a new installation, even showing something different on the menus or screen. Quickest test would be to backup your current Maxthon folder, uninstall it (using HiBit Uninstaller to show/remove 'leftovers'), restart Windows & then reinstall Maxthon. If that doesn't work, then implies Windows issues (assuming you've already tested your SSD/HDD & RAM).
  5. Loads ok for me in Maxthon (reports: 581/594) Could be a plugin (but would need to have same one installed on all browsers!) or anti-virus/firewall issue... what security do you use? (could also be issue with ISP, but less likely)
  6. Hello! Went to Help, About & Maxthon auto-downloaded & installed the update (didn't show the 'red dot' at top to let me know about it though). Upon restarting, MaxAsk requested advertising permissions... With no 'reject all' option, I had to manually untick around 60 permission boxes! How often will this occur now? Can you add a 'reject all' option or is this just a 3rd-party plugin that you have no control of!? I will NEVER give advertising permissions, so if this is too frequent, I guess that means either I have to stop using Maxthon or, I've read, using 'incognito mode' erases cookies on exit, but does that also remove any & all permissions given too? Is there anywhere, within Maxthon (or on the web) I can see what permissions I have given to what organisations? In Maxthon settings, under 'permissions', I can see which websites I've allowed cookies, but not what permissions they have. Would be good if there were 'tick boxes' next to each so I could remove more than one at a time. You'd have thought they would at least mention that! However, goto: https://chromiumchecker.com/ & it says "It doesn't look like your using a browser that's built on Chromium."! (poor they can't spell "you're"!) Additionally, if you're still using Windows 7 then this new version shouldn't be compatible, so that's suspect too!
  7. Hello! That sounds good, but you've said much the same for the last year, so that implies you've been repeatedly working on the 'then' current version, not releasing it & starting all over again when the next version was released! Since EVERY other browser (at least all the ones I've heard of) include the latest core not long after release, even the 'little ones', surely Maxthon can/should do the same? You always say the 'development team' are working on it, but even if the 'team' consisted of just one person, in the 15 months since v109 was released, they've had plenty of time to incorporated a newer core! In the past, Maxthon was first to market with pretty much all major browser innovations & that's why you built up such a dedicated following, but leaving the core so far behind (I assume just to keep the few Windows 7 & 8 users happy), is losing users, who have no choice but to change to another browser, as Maxthon is too old to be safe or compatible now! Luckily, I'm not yet one of them as the websites I goto are, at least currently, still working, but for how much longer!?
  8. Hello! What's changed between 7.1.8.6600 & 7.1.8.6601? Obviously not Chromium 109 to something newer! I hope, when one fine day you actually do update the core, it will be to the current version at time. Today, 20 February 2024, v122 is released as stable, so 'hopefully', that's the one you've been working on!?
  9. Hello! Going into menu, Help, About is still including the features page, but not every time!
  10. Hello! On quick launch shortcuts, for "Color" (still spelt wrong for UK English, as reported multiple times over many years!), could you add yellow? Also, as I see Opera is now offering it, I'll ask again, could you also add browse for local image? For me, sync works fine, no issues, so possible firewall, anti-virus or extension issue for others?
  11. Hello! Getting duplicate entries in download manager again - not had this for a few versions, but been an on/off problem since v6 released & never fixed. It's clearly a caching issue, so should be a quick fix. Like many, I'd rather you release ZERO updates, add ZERO new features & fix ZERO bugs until you update Chromium &, after that, KEEP it up-to-date! Also, from what I see, Widevine support from Google doesn't appear to cost you anything, the fees seem to be for content generation, not playback. Not having Widevine really isn't acceptable due to the large number of streaming services that use it & are therefore inaccessible via Maxthon. In Amazon Prime, can only get standard (poor!) quality playback:
  12. Although spread out more, that's still basically the same changelog as the previous version!
  13. Hello! Maxthon just auto-updated to v7.1.8.6000 (64-bit) 0125 23:01 The changelog reported though is the same as v7.1.7.9200 beta... What's actually changed?
  14. Hello! Well that's odd as I've been using it for years to simultaneously log into 2 different email accounts (outlook & hotmail) & I never used incognito mode once as the option for a new session was already on the main menu & worked perfectly!