Comments on: Maxthon 2 Released as they near 100 Million Downloads

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:31:39 +0000

What puzzles me is why Yahoo search engine used by default when Google has invested so much? Why should Yahoo be there in the first place?

My guess is that Yahoo's offering them a better cut of the ad revenue than Google.

By: DaComboMan

DaComboMan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:25:00 +0000

What puzzles me is why Yahoo search engine used by default when Google has invested so much? Why should Yahoo be there in the first place?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:13:35 +0000

I would say that the performance improvements in Maxthon 2 outweigh any negative areas. Compared to Maxthon 1 I think it is significantly better, but it does have quite a few things that have changed.

By: leland

leland — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 03:35:23 +0000

I have used both Maxthon 1.x (Classic) and Maxthon 2.x. I will say Maxthon 1 is much closer to what you will find in Avant, as it is a true shell for Internet Explorer. However in Maxthon 2 they really reworked all the internals which for IE fans will come as quite a shock. It keeps it’s own bookmarks database completely separate from IE. I believe there is a way to synchronize between the two, but it’s very different from being able to know if you bookmark something in IE it would be in Maxthon and vice versa. I’m still trying to decide if I like the changes, but I think the speed difference probably makes it worth it, it just takes longer to get used to. One area where Maxthon is better than Firefox is you can apply skins without a restart, that feature is very nice. Other than that I will stick with Firefox for day to day browsing.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:09:34 +0000

But the benefit of using the IE rendering engine is that every site has been tested against it. That means that almost all services will work flawlessly in it, and will sometimes even have more features than what Firefox users are able to have.

The thought of running Windows ME in a virtual machine on Vista made me cringe though.

By: Inferno_str1ke

Inferno_str1ke — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:40:45 +0000

You say people use this browser because it uses the IE rendering engine… that’s similar to people liking cars because they can run you over. These days there are very few problems with IE, but the most glaring one remains the fact that its rendering engine is pure crap, lacking a fair bit of CSS support, lots of CSS2 support and it hasn’t heard of CSS3. If it had a decent rendering engine and extensions then I’d use it over Firefox as its faster to load and doesn’t memory leak as much. However the good rendering engine and the extensions have always been Firefox’s best feature and remain so. The idea of using a browser based on IE seems akin to running Windows ME in a virtual machine on Vista.

By: Technology Talk - 07/27/2007 | Kyle's Cove dot Com

Technology Talk - 07/27/2007 | Kyle's Cove dot Com — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:01:46 +0000

[...] talks a bit about the Maxathon 2 browser and the influence it is having in Asia. The fact that they are nearing 100 million downloads is [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:00:07 +0000

Yeah, I think that if I was going to use Internet Explorer then I would probably use Maxthon or Avant Browser because they offer a lot of great features. But as you mentioned…they share a lot of the same IE vulnerabilities that never get fixed.

By: Mohan

Mohan — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:48:12 +0000

Not a bad browser, I test drove it for a few days and went quickly back to Firefox (as it is cross platform and doesn’t share the same vulnerability as IE does). It is pretty good all around browser and functions well for anyone who is looking use browser that isn’t too far off from IE.