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Is the love affair with FireFox beginning to die? ZDNet carries a column about the browser headed Firefox is slow and buggy (but I'm hooked anyway) and there's a lot subsequent correspondence from people who experience the same kinds of problems, especially FireFox crashing. Which makes one wonder why these people continue to say... 'But I'm sticking with it'. I've pretty well given up on FireFox after numerous attempts to get my favourite extensions to work with version 1.5 - all to no avail, and enquiries on the Mozillazine discussion lists brought no solution. So I switched to Maxthon - not perfect, but what is? Maxthon runs on the IE engine, but you can switch to using the Gecko engine if you wish. I find fewer problems in loading certain files (e.g., .pdf files) and the pop-up blocker really blocks, rather than simply tucking the pop-up window behind the 'live' window. If you like to play with skins - there's plenty for Maxthon. And, of course, it will load pretty well all pages - not good for Web standards, but...