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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: December 19, 2005
- Total Downloads: 5,314,424
- Downloads last week: 1,321
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 264 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
A browser based on the Internet Explorer engine, Maxthon is probably something of a curiosity for most North American users. It never really caught on there, but elsewhere--especially China--it's one of the most popular browsers around. It renders pages fast and comes loaded with features, as if Firefox came with 90 percent of its most popular plug-ins.
All the basics are represented here, from tabbed browsing to skins to add-ons, and many of the rolled-in features make Maxthon hard to ignore. Some of our favorite features include rolled-in auto-form filling, the ability to set up bookmark groups that open on start-up--excellent for news or blogs, the ability to autoscroll Web pages, and pop-up and content filters for blocking ads and specific content formats you don't want. There are also customizable hotkey commands for such nifty features as auto-completing URLs, so if you type "download" and hold down the Ctrl key, it will auto-fill the "http://" and the ".com".
We also like the super drag-and-drop feature, which lets you directly select and drag keywords to a current Web page or directly to the address bar. Maxthon is fast, small, flexible, and easy to use, and the extra features make it a browser we highly recommend. This version, Classic, differs from the newer Maxthon in several ways--notably by being more stable and less customizable.
Publisher's description
From Maxthon International :Maxthon (formerly MyIE2) is a multipage browser based on the Internet Explorer core (IE 5 or 6 required). It can open multiple Web pages in just one window, and it takes only a few system resources when you're surfing with the integrated user interface. The application supports special plug-ins and IE extensions, and its features include autoscrolling, form autofilling, external tools, plug-in support, a newsgroup-browsing mode, mouse gestures, customizable skins, and an Autohide panel. The latest release features improved theme support, enhanced stability, and updated skinning.
Version 1.5.2.21 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of Maxthon 1.5.2.21
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 264 votes
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10 out of 24 people found this review helpful
Version: Maxthon 1.5.2.21
"Good Internet Explorer front-end. Just find one you like and use it."
Pros: Its free.
It brings tabbed browsing to Internet Explorer.
Has a lot of cool features Internet Explorer doesn't have.
Some added security features over Internet Explorer.
Cons: A little bloated.
All of these Internet Explorer front-ends are all the same. None of them bring anything original to the table. They all do the same things while looking exactly like Internet Explorer. Program should strive to be like AOL Explorer, which is a lot more original with an original looking interface.
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Version: Maxthon 1.5.2.21
Pros: If you are in need of features that requires IE, this could be the best. It's is less memory hogging compared to Firefox.
Plus, it also has many useful features such as Roboform, RSS Readers, Groupings, etc etc.
Cons: Because it is IE basd, certainly the security is not good. And also it always crashed by shutting itself down, whcih alsways interrupts works.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Maxthon 1.5.2.21
Pros: fast, and neat program
Cons: In my opinion, this cant compete to Firefox.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Maxthon 1.5.2.21
Cons: There isn't anything about this program that I don't like.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Maxthon 1.5.2.21
Pros: this my favorite explorer // the best
Cons: no cons
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