I have a policy of running a lot of different browsers on my computers. The idea is to gain experience of what works and what won't. When doing web development, any run-of-the-mill developer gets a tunnel vision and starts spewing out the classic "it works for me!" -style answers, when there are issues with a site.
So, I'm fighting hard to defeat that by using a lot of different browsers. One of my tools has been Maxthon browser. It isn't anymore. Goodbye Maxthon!
I was reading an article about "Lenovo PCs ship with man-in-the-middle adware that breaks HTTPS connections" and went to https://filippo.io/Badfish/ to check my browser. Amazingly it showed YES:
Whaat!
If I download the https://badfish.filippo.io/yes.png directly, then there is a proper notification about the problem:
... but seeing the picture embedded nicely in a website means, that the browser won't bother checking while rendering a page. Anybody can display anything on a web page and I won't get any information about the dropped security. Not good.
There is no other way, than to uninstall. I absolutely won't recommend using anything that insecure!
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The thing with Chrome is, that Google pays well for people informing them about security flaws. So, that browser really doesn't have any serious ones in it.