OT: Firefox and Maxthon
Funny how different stuff acts differently on everyone's machines. For me, Maxthon is way, way faster than Firefox.
The other thing that bugs me about Firefox is that everytime they upgrade, half your extensions stop working. I've also had the problem of becoming dependent on an extension and then the developer stops updating it and nobody takes over. You can sort of become dependent on a 18 year old kid who takes off for college and stops updating things. I had to add many extensions to get the same features already in maxthon.
The other thing i really like in Maxthon is everthing you can do by right-clicking on a tab. All very intuitive. Assigning aliases is especially easy compared to Firefox.
Having said that, I'm not religious about any technology. If Firefox starts doing things better than maxthon, I'll use it more than maxthon.
One more thing. I'm on Vista and am not impressed. Quite a bit slower than XP. Only reason I got it was because my old machine broke down the week before Vista was coming out, so I waited. Would actually rather have XP. Vista just seems overly bloated and slow and no real upgrades other than eye candy, imo.
