It is a shame!
It is a shame because this browser
is not even in the lists
of the top 5 internet browsers,
when its really, really powerful!

I think the Maxthon team forgot
what made Maxthon 2 great,
and that was that it was packed
with usefull features by default
which were highly customizable.

I follow the development progress
of Maxthon 3 for about 2 years now,
and every end of the week they upload
a new version and its changelog.

It is still of bugs, missing usefull tools
and its half as customizable as version 2.

I didnt mind continuing using version 2
until version 3 had reached a desent point,
but the problem is that ever since
I installed the latest version of 2,
it had HUGE memory leak problems,
to the point of tabs crashing literaly every 5 to 10 mins.
I even tried rolling back to previous versions
but it was too late.
The problem persisted.

DON’T EVEN GO CLOSE TO MAXTHON!

Why 8 years then, you might wonder?
Well, its true that Maxthon in its 2nd version (its now 3)
had a lot of neat features that it came with by default
and I honestly didn’t think were available on other browsers.
It was those features that kept me to this browser,
even though the others were faster and more reliable.
Oh yeah,
I forgot to mention…

IT CRASHES LIKE 1930′s TEST PLANE!

If it wasn’t for its crashed tabs recovery list, every time you reopened it after a crash, I would have been completely un-usable.

Well it was a bit difficult,
but after 32(!) plugin installations on Firefox,
I get the same power as i did on Maxthon,
only now everything is faster, more reliable
and more customizable to my needs than even before!

As for the 3rd version of Maxthon,
the new engine does make it as fast as other modern browsers,
but what good is that when it lacks important features, and its less customizable than its predecessor?

And believe me,
the developers are taking their sweet time developing this one.
I’ve been asking for 9 months for them to make mouse gestures
as customizable as it used to be in version 2,
but that never happened,
Instead they prefer to solve problems,
like “compatibility with the webpage of the game Cut the Rope” when their browser is full of important bugs that need immediate attention.

It’s a bit like Firefox with wings!

It’s in Beta at the moment and does shut down once in a while but I like it.

Give it a good go. It’s a really nice piece of software. Ignore what the Firefox fanboys say. Try it out and make up your own mind.

I’ve used Maxthon from its first release and when I last experienced problems in the autumn I tested it on two different pc’s with different o/s’s with the same effect.

Its well documented on their forum and Tara who moderates there and as made many plugins freely acknowledges that maxthon 1x has tended to sacrifice resolving longstanding bugs in favour off constantly adding more minor features

Maxthon 2.0 is a new start but it too has struggled with bugs.

I don’t see Maxthon doing much growth in the US, because it doesn’t really offer that much more than IE7.

Sure, plugins can be an issue with major revisions of Maxthon, but my point is, you don’t need any plugins with Maxthon to get the user experience that otherwise requires a dozen plugins and the plugin merry-go-round of Firefox…

um, since ff2 it recovers tabs after a crash. it called session restore … http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/