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February 28, 2006
MyIE becomes the new Maxthon Browser
A browser named Maxthon has become very popular in China. It started in 2000, and was known as MyIE. It is also available for free to the North American market.
Apparently it is the second most popular browser in China with an estimated online population of 110 million.
The browser is built on the Trident rendering engine which is the same engine used by Internet Explorer. This browser has a number of new features and enhancements
From an article on eWeek written by Matt Hines, he says:
Like Opera, Firefox and even beta versions of Microsoft's next-generation Internet Explorer 7, Maxthon offers so-called tabbed browsing controls, onboard security tools and an RSS reader, along with a range of user interface customization options.
It is claimed on the Maxathon website that the browser uses very few resources, resulting in an average of 65% less RAM usage compares to IE when having the same large number of pages open.
From their features page they also claim there are 400+ plugins that are available, but when I clicked the URL to have a look at the "plugin site" I was returned an error message saying the site couldn't be found.
Still... if you're looking for a Microsoft compatible browser, and are not concerned about using a standards compliant browser you can have a look at http://www.maxthon.com and at least get what could be considered a long awaited, updated version of Internet Explorer.
Best Regards,
Steve MacLellan
Posted by Steve MacLellan at February 28, 2006 03:55 PM
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