Maxthon - Web Browser

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Maxthon Internet Browser software is a powerful tabbed browser with a highly customisable interface. It is based on the Internet Explorer browser engine (your most likely current web browser) which means that what works in the IE browser will work the same in Maxthon tabbed browser but with many additional efficient features:

The Ultimate Out-of-box Experience
  • Easy to use and powerful straight out of the box
  • Download now for free, forever!

Maxthon Works the Way You Want It To
  • Swap, add, move, remove, and change Maxthon's tool bars, icons, menus, colors, skins, and layouts until it looks the way you would have designed it.
  • Don't like menus? Use hot keys, word aliases, toolbars, or mouse gestures - it's all up to you.
  • Pick from more than 1,400 plug-ins that make Maxthon the do-all of browsers.
  • Remote conferencing, screen capture, electronic passports, and automatic password inlcuded, free.

Security.
  • Maxthon is 100% free of viruses, spyware, adware – any kind of malware.
  • The built-in Ad Hunter blocks harmful, or just irritating ads, images and pages.
  • Filter packs screen out offensive and irritating Web pages.

Change Log - Link.

New Features:
  • Added "Duplicate Tab" option to the tab right-click menu.
  • Added "Duplicate Tab" to mouse gesture and shortcut keys.

Improvements:
  • Improved the support to Thunder Downloader.
  • Supported the download from kuai.thunder.com in Ultra Mode.
  • Optimized the memory usage of Ultra Mode.
  • It allowed turning pages by "left/right" mouse gesture in Quick Access.
  • Used "Modern Skin" as the default skin.
  • Improved showBadge() and newTab() interfaces of Maxthon extension platform.

Fixes:
  • Main Frame
    • The browser window restored to an incorrect position after exited Full Screen.
    • Night Mode could not switch automatically according to customized time if restarted the browser after turned off the computer.
  • Webkit
    • Some crash problems.
    • Some page compatibility problems about page rendering.
    • A freeze problem.
    • A memory leak problem related to flash player.
    • A memory leak problem about Webkit Core.
    • Some other high memory usage problems.
    • Cursor display problem of Developer Tools' search box.
    • A security hole problem.
    • It could not display Quick Access page when closed the last tab.
    • FTP time display problem.
    • The blank tabs opened by mailto:could not close automatically.
    • The scroll bar of Quick Access could not work.
    • It could not open the pages if dragged UNC links.
    • Bad function effect of animate() in jquery.
  • Magic Fill
    • It could not modify the name when modified FTP items.
  • Source Sniffer
    • It could not get some HTML5 audios and videos.
  • AdHunter
    • Blocking number display problem.
  • Extension Platform
    • Fixed some sidebar problems.
    • Fixed a extension update problem.
    • ef.json files identification problems.
    • Judgment problems of action name response.
    • Webpage right-click unlock feature could work on Side Bar extensions.

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RE: Maxthon 3.3.4.1200 Beta

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Updated:

New Feature:
  • SkyNote (called Online Notepad before).

Improvement:
  • The auto switching logic of Ultra Mode/Retro Mode.

Fixes:
  • Main Frame
    • Some auxiliary information's in Status Bar could not load properly.
    • No traffic moderating data if logged in Maxthon Account manually.
    • It could not open a new tab when dragged & dropped external links to Maxthon Browser.
    • It could not open .url files with Drag & Drop.
    • Auto Refresh status display problem.
    • It would still open the page if dragged & dropped Favorite items from Favorite Bar to the page and pressed ESC for canceling.
    • UI display problem if changed the DPI of OS to 125%.
    • Freeze problem when dragged & dropped Favorite items for ordering.
  • Webkit Core
    • Some crash problems.
    • Some messy code problems.
    • Inspect Element display problem.
    • Freeze problem related to applet pages.
    • Right-click menu display problem.
  • AdHunter
    • Borders were still there after filtered .gif files.
  • Extension Platform
    • Some interface realization problems.
    • js problem of extension's drop-down list.

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RE: Maxthon 3.3.4.1200 Beta

FileHippo said:
Updated:

New Feature:
  • Switched unsupported AxtiveX pages to Retro Mode automatically.

Fixes:
  • Main Frame
    • Page Zoom setting did not work in New Session.
  • Webkit Core
    • Some crash problems.
    • It could not login codeproject.cm with the specific UA setting.
    • It could not visit local pages.
    • Incorrect interception of one download link in 115.com by Popup Blocker.
    • Extra spaces adding problem when used correction feature of Spell Checker.
    • It could not enter Chinese in some Flash Apps.
    • Invalidation of Mouse Gesture and New Tab in some pages.
    • window.onstorage event got triggered repeatedly.
    • Initialization failure of File System API:requestFileSystem.
  • Extension Platform
    • Some interface realization problems.

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RE: Maxthon 3.3.4.1200 Beta

FileHippo said:
Updated:

New Feature:
  • Updated Side Bar Layout.
  • Support HTML5 Application cache, Geolocation and Dom download.
  • Support "Do Not Track".
  • Support Web Audio API.
  • Auomatic update of Maxthon Browser.

Fixes:
  • Main Frame
    • Fixed a Tab UI problem.
    • Display problem of the drop-down list icon in Quick Tools Bar.
    • Fixed a sequence problem of Favorites items.
    • The login window pop-up when used proxy.
    • Download dialog window display problem.
    • Boss Key did not work.
    • Some dialogues could not display in the main screen when used multiple screens.
    • Fixed loading problem of the auxiliary information in Status Bar and icons in Tool Bar.
  • Webkit Core
    • Could not visit https sites over proxy.
    • Improved the processing to JS alert dialogue
    • Improved the support to the HTML5 game "Gravity Maze".
    • Improved the support to HTML 5 Creatures and Castles pages.
  • Trident Core
    • Customizing color in Night Mode did not work.
  • Maxthon Download
    • File name display error.
  • Source Sniffer
    • Some Youtube videos could not be detected.
  • MaxSnap
    • It could not snap some kinds of dialogues.
  • AdHunter
    • "Backspace" did not work when edited blocking rules.
    • Invalid in "New Session "window.
  • Extension Platform
    • Some interface problem.
    • Ajax request would be rejected in script injection.
    • PAGE_LOADED triggered twice problem.

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RE: Maxthon 3.3.4.1200 Beta

FileHippo said:
Updated:

New Feature:
  • Updated Side Bar Layout.
  • Support HTML5 Application cache, Geolocation and Dom download.
  • Support "Do Not Track".
  • Support Web Audio API.
  • Auomatic update of Maxthon Browser.

Fixes:
  • Main Frame
    • Display problem of right arrow's drop-down list in Favorites Bar.
    • Display problem when dragged the icons in Side Bar.
    • "Get More Apps" button did not work.
    • It could not select the related folder when added favorites if there were too many directories.
    • Search Bar focus lost problem.
  • Webkit Core
    • Browser crashed if closed the browser after locked tabs.
    • Mouse Gesture did not work.
    • Incomplete display of <ol> bullets.
    • Page layout problem of ebay and astronet.
  • Maxthon Download
    • "Browse" could not locate the related folder.
    • Display problem of the download dialogue.
  • Platform
    • The tab title and the content in Address Bar did not change when switched the pages from extensions.

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RE: Maxthon 3.3.4.1200 Beta

FileHippo said:
Updated:

New Feature:
  • Tab Sync.

Improvement:
  • Improved Mouse Gesture and the right-click menu of webpage.

Fixes:
  • Webkit Core
    • Caches needed to be cleared manually when they worked exceptionally.
    • It could not save the certified dialog passwords.
    • Right-click menu did not work well.
    • Support blob:file protocol.
    • It could not open some pages.
    • Application cache events could not log in Console of Developer Tools.
    • Mouse scrolling problem in some vedio pages.
    • Diplay problem of http://www.5eplay.com/ .
  • Platform
    • Multiple language support in development.
    • Some interface problems.

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RE: Maxthon 3.3.4.1200 Beta

FileHippo said:
Updated:

Fix:
  • UI problem when there were few download items in Maxthon Downloader.

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RE: Maxthon 3.3.4.1200 Beta

FileHippo said:
Updated:

New Feature:
  • Updated JavaScript engine.

Fixes:
  • Main Frame
    • Side Bar and Status Bar could be dragged if the browser window was maximized.
    • Quick App exited improperly.
    • Sequence problem of the icons in Side Bar.
    • Incorrect task number displayed in Download Manager.
    • Tab "close" button display problem.
  • Webkit Core
    • Fixed one Inertia-Clickjacking security breach.
    • Several stability problems related to Webkit Core.
    • The username displayed as messy code in kyohk.net.
    • Night Mode did not work in some sites.
    • Some page loading problems.
    • Two scroll bar problems.
  • Extension Interface of IE Core
    • Interface problem in Retro Mode.
  • RSS
    • Data import problem.

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RE: Maxthon 3.3.4.1200 Beta

FileHippo said:
Updated:

Fixes:
  • Main Frame
    • No response to the newly registers login sometimes.
    • Failed to unlock the locked tabs.
  • Webkit Core
    • Certain page elements could be dragged&dropped accidentally into search.
    • No response when clicking download buttons in certain pages.
    • The download dialog message prompted improperly
    • The right click menu displayed incompletely
    • A CSS support problem.

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FileHippo said:
Updated:

New Features:
  • Supported H.264 Hardware acceleration.

Fixes:
  • Main Frame
    • Improved input experience for Address Bar.
  • Webkit Core
    • Browser crashed when opening certain mht files.
    • Improved HTML5 animation features.
    • Failed to open certain pages of kooora.com.
    • Fixed a CSS support problem.
  • Extension Platform
    • Improved the interface implementation.
  • Maxthon Thunder Downloader
    • Removed Maxthon Thunder Downloader.

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FileHippo said:
Updated:

New Features:
  • New Download Manager interface.

Improvements:
  • Optimized Retro/Ultra Mode smart switch logic

Fixes:
  • Main Frame
    • The auxiliary information display problem in Status Bar.
    • Failed to add urls and titles of Tabs to Favorites via Sidebar.
  • Webkit Core
    • Certain Chinese Character overlapped.
    • Crashed when visiting cttbchinese.org.
    • No response when opening certain htm File.
    • Reader Mode failed to exit when pressing ESC.
    • Some pages failed to apply the screen definition.
    • File access protocol problem.
  • I.E Core
    • Default zoom size problem sometimes.
    • Pop-up videos were pinned by default sometimes.

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most of them are useless, it why i moved to FF, the addon developper community is weak.
 

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umbrapolaris said:
most of them are useless, it why i moved to FF, the addon developper community is weak.

I use this as an alternitive for Opera for Android because at TAFE Opera has connection issues while Maxthon doesn't.
 

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FileHippo said:
Updated:
Fixes:
  • Webkit Core
    • Crash problem related to right-click menu.
    • Opening png images would popup the download dialog.
    • Image zooming did not work well.* Some extensions still ran even after being disabled.
  • Maxthon Downloader
    • Improved download directory checking.

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FileHippo said:
Updated:
Fixes:
  • Main Frame
    • Failed to delete the data in Address Bar drop-down menu.
  • Webkit Core
    • Some Chinese characters displayed incorrectly.
    • Failed to create Canvas.
    • Blocked Gmail popup windows by mistake.
  • Magic Fill
    • Improved the support to Magic Fill in some sites.
    • "Name" of Magic Fill displayed as url in Maxthon Options.
  • Extension Platform
    • Icon display problem.
    • Unqualified extensions might cause crashes.
    • Improved the extension interface calls.

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FileHippo said:
Updated:
Fixes:
  • Main Frame
    • Search Bar display problem.
    • What's New Page displayed each time when opened Maxthon.
  • Webkit Core
    • One crash problem caused by visiting win8 download page.
    • Gmail popup window would be blocked by mistake.
    • Could not get the correct XML file parameters.
  • IE Core
    • It did not support third-party downloader well.
  • Extension Platform
    • Improved the extension JavaScript Apis for extensions.

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FileHippo said:
Updated:
New Features:
  • New Quick Access.
  • Supported playing .flv files.
  • Improved the support for HTML5 datalist.
  • Updated JavaScript engine.
  • Added right-click menu into Side Bar extensions.
  • Added search suggestion into Search Bar.
  • Proxy white list.
  • "Always use Ultra Mode" option.
  • "Don't track me" option.
Fixes:
  • Main Frame
    • Search Bar did not work well sometimes.
    • Some site icons did not display in Quick Access.
  • Webkit Core
    • It did not display the error page correctly.
    • Gmail Spell Check problem.
    • Some pages did not display well in Ultra Mode.
    • Some buttons in the pages did not work.
    • Could not view or open the folder after saving images by shortcut keys.
    • The Chinese file names displayed as messy codes in Maxthon Downloader when downloaded from dbank.
    • Improved the support for text-transform.
    • Improved Magic Fill to support more pages well.
    • It said that Maxthon did not support MPEG-4 in html5test page.
    • Sometimes it did not work well when copied images.
  • IE Core
    • Opening a new tab may cause the browser unresponsive.
  • Extension Platform
    • Improved Extension Platform

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FileHippo said:
Updated:
New Features:
  • Supported HTML5 Custom search providers.
  • New Reader Mode.
Fixes:
  • Main Frame
    • Crash problem caused by installing an incomplete skin file.
  • Webkit Core
    • Improved the support for WebGL.
    • Incorrect download path when dragged some shortcuts from desktop to Maxthon 3.
    • The mouse cursor moved following the image after "Quick Saved" Images.
    • Browsing mode switching problem for some urls.
    • File name display problem in Source Sniffer.

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