Tag: MAXTHON

Android users already have a number of capable mobile browsers to choose from: Dolphin HD and Mini, Opera Mobile, Firefox, Skyfire, and even the stock browser are all quite good. Now there's a new challenger: Maxthon. The Chinese makers of the popular-even-though-most-of-the-west-has-never-heard-of-it desktop browser has released a version for Android, and it's a very nice app. Out of the box, ...

Maxthon isn't a browser you hear about much on the usual news outlets. It's hugely popular in Asia, but not so much elsewhere in the world. Late last year, work began on Maxthon 3 which brought with it the speedy WebKit rendering engine. With the latest alpha release, Maxthon has a new look -- and it's clearly inspired by other browsers. Tabs (which were previously located beneath the ...

If there's a solid browser out there that gets less coverage than Opera, it's got to be Maxthon. After testing out the latest alpha build of version 3, it appears that they're going to make sure people start taking notice. Witness the V8 benchmark score above - that's Maxthon on the left and Chrome 4.0.203.2 on the right. As you can see, Maxthon 3 puts up pretty competitive numbers. In ...

Firefox and Internet Explorer get most of the attention, but they're not the only web browsers out there. There's also Safari, Opera, and Konqueror. But if you want to try a web browser that is guaranteed to work with every page designed for Internet Explorer without actually you know, using Internet Explorer, you might want to check out Maxthon. Maxthon is based on Internet Explorer, so it uses ...

Seeing a bunch of lean code jockeys building the next generation of web browsers is a reality TV show I'd watch. Since that's probably not happening any time soon, I'll take the next best thing: Read/WriteWeb's Web Browser Faceoff, by Alex Iskold. Iskold reviews six of the latest crop of web bowsers: Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 7, Safari, Opera 9, Flock, and Maxthon. I highly recommend reading ...

The official Maxthon blog has a post that announces the release (finally) of the 2.0 public preview version of their IE-based browser. The link they point to (which is the one I'm linking directly to here) is sort of confusing, since there's nothing about the 2.0 preview version on the page you land at. You first have to create a Maxthon account, at which time they present the link to the ...

In today's day and age of multiple viable browsers, it can be a minor annoyance to have to copy and paste URLs from one browser window to another to move a page from, say, Opera to Firefox. Or IE to Netcaptor. Or Maxthon to Firefox. You get the picture. For many, simply having the option of rendering a page with the IE engine as an alternative to Firefox is all you need; in that case give the IE ...

InternetWeek has an interesting round-up review of Internet Explorer 7, Firefox, Opera, and Maxthon. Four editors go to bat for each of the Windows browsers, and included is a nice "Visual Tour" of each plus side-by-side comparisons of some key features. There's no "this one is best" conclusion but it's a nice way to get an idea of what each browser does best. ...