Who here has used Maxthon browser?

[antowan]

Who here has used Maxthon browser?

Impressions?

[SecretCode]

Not recently. Years ago, in fact. It was a great improvement over IE 5 and 6, and better at handling badly-written (ie, for IE) websites than Opera. I don't think I've bothered with it since firefox 1.5 ... but it probably still has some neat features.

[antowan]

The Chinese apparently love it! Will try it later today.

[spiderz]

I'm using it now....love the mouse gestures...

[w1z4rd]

Used it back in the day before a nicely working Firefox. Enjoyed it back then. Its basically just IE enhancements.

[wizzard]

Also used it a while back. It was nice but all it really did was remind me that Opera existed so I moved away from it after a few weeks

[general_koffi]

It makes IE much better.

But it's still IE...

[Globetrotter]

I also used it back in the day mainly due to the mouse gestures but I switched to Firefox since it gives me mouse gestures (Mouse Gestures Redox) and so much more.

[Globetrotter]

The Chinese apparently love it! Will try it later today.

The fact that it's based in China and developed by a guy named Changyou probably helped.

[PsyWulf]

Used it for a long time while IE didn't handle tabs all too well when you needed the functionality ( read nnon-compatibility with any form of standards ) of IE in a tabbed browser

[Claymore]

I use it, and love it.

Things I like:
- Very solid tab functionality - save tab groups, etc, etc.
- Comes with a boatload of features out of the box
- Really decent ad-blocking
- Extremely configurable - multiple proxies, configurable search engines, skins, customisable keyboard command, etc etc.
- Online settings and favorites synchronisation
- IE compatible (it runs on the IE rendering engine)
- Has its own plugins, and supports IE plugins.
- Built-in form-filling/login facility
- Pretty solid downloader
- Page zoom

Things that could be better:
- Speed. Not bad, but depends on IE javascript rendering, so not as quick as Opera/Chrome. It does have some perfomance improvers though, like enhanced caching.
- Some aspects are bitch to configure, like proxy setup for online login, because the dialog box is in Chinese.

[PVTele]

Really excellent browser, far nicer to use, IMHO, than Firefox, which is getting too lumpy and bloated for me these days. Not fair to call it just an IE shell - it uses the Trident rendering engine, but the rest is all Maxthon. Claymore's run-down is pretty much my own experience - only things he didn't mention were the quite decent built-in feed reader, and the fact that the Maxthon people periodically issue security updates intended to cover any currently unpatched vulnerabilities in the Trident engine.

By the way, TheWorld Browser, another excellent Chinese offering, is quicker and lighter than Maxthon, but has a rather different feature set, including a very good version of Firefox 3's "awesome bar"! (When Googling for link, spell theworld as all one word.)

[charlie_82]

Years ago...
I quite liked it

[cyberarmy]

I am still using it.

[Browser]

Loved it when it was still MyIE and Maxthon 1.x.

Though I don't really like the newer Maxthon 2x, it's the slowest by quite a bit, for example I opened the same page in Opera, Maxthon 2 and FF, Maxthon started first and finished last. It just seems to have really gone downhill.