Really want to speed up your browsing? Switch to Maxthon.
January 4, 2007 by Tris Hussey
Filed under Jobs
Maxthon is one of those browsers built using the IE engine, but it’s different. It had tabbed browsing long before IE (even with Yahoo’s toolbar). Oh, it’s Chris Pirillo’s fav too. I tried it a while ago, but I ditched for Firefox after a while, well Scoble did an interview with the guys behind Maxthon and a demo of Maxthon 2 b2. Truth be told, I haven’t even watched the videos yet (bad Tris, bad), but I felt that I should give it another shot. Maxthon is supposed to be faster, safer, and you can use most of your IE plugins with it (this isn’t working in the beta yet). And … you ask. Yep, sure it. Faster? Man is it faster. New tabs, switching tabs, closing tabs. IE favourites, history, passwords? All there. No issues.
Yep, I’m liking Maxthon and not looking back. It has a ton more features than I’ve talked about here, but really what’s going to count is speed and ease of switching. While I am trying the beta, the latest stable release is great too (I have it installed as well). Most of my IE plugins work with it. Attensa kinda flips it out, but I’m not surprised.
Feature requests? Support the Common Feed List so I can use Maxthon’s feed subscribing tools to add to Attensa without copying and pasting.
This is certainly worth a try. Check out the Maxthon blog too
Tags: Maxthon, Maxthon 2 Beta
Tris! Happy to hear that you like Maxthon so far. Please feel free to get in touch with me if you have any specific request. We will add that Common feed list as well as simple ways to add feeds to Google Reader, Bloglines etc.
Netanel! Thanks for stopping by! I know that Maxthon 2 is a work in progress, but man it’s pretty darn good work! Only had a few crashes with it. Can’t wait to be able to add stuff like the Google toolbar back.
One bug, I think, I found is that if Maxthon is closed, but set to re-open with a bunch of tabs, but another app opens it (like clicking a link from Outlook), the other tabs don’t open. Since the History isn’t implemented in v2, I had to go back to the stable version to get the pages back.
Beyond that the speed is sweet.