Maxthon Browser : Your Other Alternative Browser

by Siddartha on September 11, 2009

This alternative Web browser is best described as an Internet Explorer skin; it requires IE to be installed to work correctly.
However, Maxthon is so different from IE as far as features and add-ons, that it’s odd that Maxthon International tied it in with IE in the first place.
The browser uses the Trident layout engine, just like IE, and therefore should have increased compatibility in those few Web sites that still require IE to function.

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Maxthon is free and small, so if you’re fed up with your existing browser, take it for a test drive.
Unlike most modern Web browsers, the current version of Maxthon isn’t Webkit-based.
The upcoming version 3 promises this design, which will bring it in line with its competition, as well as allowing it to score 100 on the Acid 3 web standards test.
It’s a good bet, though I can’t be sure, that the new version will not require IE at all, since IE is still Trident-based and Maxthon will be Webkit-based.

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Maxthon takes up very little memory and CPU, especially compared to Firefox. With a whole row of tabs open, Maxthon only took up 66 megabytes of RAM, compared to 246 megabytes for a similar Firefox setup.
Maxthon also includes an ad-blocker standard, which offers a welcome respite from the proliferation of advertising across the Internet, especially audio Flash-based ads, the worst kind. Other browsers require a separate install of AdBlock to do so.


The Ultimate Out-of-box Experience
  • Easy to use and powerful straight out of the box
  • Created by people thinking out of the box to come up with new ways to use the Internet
  • Free for all! Over 200 million downloads worldwide!
Maxthon Works the Way You Want It To
  • Swap, add, move, remove, and change Maxthon’s tool bars, icons, menus, colors, skins, and layouts until it looks the way you would have designed it.
  • Don’t like menus? Use hot keys. Don’t like hot keys? Use word aliases. Don’t like aliases? Use toolbars. Don’t like toolbars? Then use mouse gestures. It’s all up to you.
  • Think we left something out? Pick from more than 1,400 plug-ins that make Maxthon the do-all of browsers.
  • Other companies sell remote conferencing, screen capture, electronic passports, and automatic password managers as separate programs. With Max, they’re free – just like Maxthon itself.
Maxthon’s so secure you can throw away that blanket
  • Maxthon is 100% free of viruses, spyware, adware – any kind of malware.
  • The built-in Ad Hunter blocks harmful, or just irritating ads, images and pages.
  • Filter packs screen out offensive and irritating Web pages, and you decide what’s offensive and irritating.
Features of Maxthon Browser:
Easy Sufing
  • Tabbed Browsing : All the web pages are arranged as tabs inside main window to ease your navigation.
  • Mouse Gestures : Hold right mouse button and perform the gestures to access common features such as Back, Forward, Refresh and Close Tab.
  • Maxthon Smart Acceleration : Boost the browsing speed of your frequent visit websites.
  • Magic Fill : Fill all the forms with Magic Fill by a single click. It can recognize almost any form fields automatically.
  • Feed Reader : With the built-in Feed Reader, you don’t have to install other software to subscribe and read RSS 0.9/1.0/2.0 and Atom 0.3/1.0 Feeds.
  • URL Alias : Give a name to your favorite website, and then visit it by simply typing the name in the Address Bar.
  • Online Favorites Service : Access your Favorites content anywhere with Maxthon Online Favorites Service.
  • Web Bar :This little toolbar provides a lots of small features that aid your browsing, and can be toggled on and off easily.
  • Screen Capture : Capture Full Screen, Selected Area, Selected Window and Page Content as an image.
  • Utilities : You can add shortcuts of your programs in Maxthon, and start them with a single click.
  • Anti-Freeze : The emergence of Tabbed Browsing Mode and the increasing usage of Ajax Technology in websites might cause frequent freezing while browsing.

Secured Browsing

  • Security Updates : Maxthon Security Updates reduce the risk of certain unpatched Internet Explorer vulnerabilities while browsing.
  • Trusted Website Check : Address Bar will show the Trusted icon and its background will turn green when you visit a trusted website.
  • Clean Private Data : You can erase all your browsing information easily.

Fully Customizable The Way You Surf the World

  • Plugins : Add more features into Maxthon Browser with plugins.
  • Filter Packs : Remove ads on a specified website or implement a special feature. The whole new Filter Pack system gives you the possibility of modifying web page source code.
  • Skins : Install Skins to change the look of your Maxthon Browser and make it different, or create one by yourself.
  • Multi-language : Maxthon Browser has Language Packs in 19 different languages, all made by our community users.
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