While the userbase definitely isn't as large as Chrome or Firefox, the community around Maxthon does the best they can and plugins from News to Email Alerts, Development, Multimedia are available from their plugin web site. Support for addons in this branch of Maxthon will be implemented in November 2011, but a slew of different plugins exist for previous versions.

When comes to support for addons and skins, Maxthon doesn't let down. this is probably because it takes the best from two of the most popular display engines. On testing the newest version of Maxthon, we were very (very, very) pleased to see that the interface has been cleaned up and up until now, CSS support seems flawless. It supports private browsing, per-page audio muting (most versions, actually) and language translations to name a few.

On the technical side, Maxthon actually utilizes two display engines, those being Trident and Webkit.

Upon installation, you'll be greeted on the first run with the option to setup the Maxthon Passport which syncs your favourites and other settings anywhere you install it. Fast Chromium-based web browser with private browsing, focus on security, download manager and support for mouse gestures.Īnother entry into the web browser market is Maxthon Browser, an alternative that is based on the Chromium engine like Google's Chrome browser.Ī very lightweight Internet browser, Maxthon offers many features you'd expect to find in a modern browser with an extremely fast and well-built backend.

Download Maxthon 7.0.2.2000