It has been a while… (again)

Just like last year, my exams kept me from posting here or on Maxthon forum, I apologise for not leaving a note or something, you know when you keep thinking: “I will do it today” but you never do it? it was exactly like that, I spent more time trying to post a notice than studying, nah, just kidding.

What happened during that quiet month? new Maxthon 3 public release and a final 2.5.2 version, just in case you were absent during June too.

Back to business now, see ya in my next post.

Back to Maxthon 2: 2.5.2.6608

Have you been worried that the Maxthon 3 buzz was taking over M2 and M2 was going the way of Maxthon classic? worry no more; a new update for M2 has been released, 2.5.2 beta4, click Read the rest of this entry for the changelog…

Download: http://dl.maxthon.cn/mx2/mx_2.5.2.6608.exe

View your online favorites…online

Have you ever wanted, when you are at work, to open a link in your Maxthon favorites? installing Maxthon itself is not an option as in this pretty close environment, IE (Internet explorer) and only IE is used and you can’t have anything else more usable. So what would you do in this case?

You can open the newly released favorites website with any browser, where you can log in using your Maxthon passport and view all the favorites you have uploaded on the server using Maxthon, you can’t edit the favorites as for now but it’s still pretty cool to have this service. Thanks Maxthon team!

Take a look

New Maxthon 3 release and Webware100 award

A lot has happened in the past few days in the world of Maxthon, one of the attention-worthy events was that Maxthon won the webware100 award for the second time in a row, which is really great for a browser that is not one of the popular “big players”. We all hope that the final release of Maxthon 3 would keep the awards coming. 

Mentioning Maxthon 3, a new update has been also released for it with no invitations needed to be downloaded! this is a bug-fixes update only. Don’t worry, once the alpha is stable enough the developers will go crazy with the features additions.

Forum announcement of alpha 3 release (includes changelog and a public download link)

How to improve Maxthon’s compatibility with Internet Explorer 8

If you have installed the latest version of internet explorer already, you would have noticed that the compatibility of Maxthon 2 with IE8 is less than perfect, particularly when it comes to supporting IE8’s improvements like the faster speed and better websites designing standards compatibility. Also there are some IE8 problems and bugs that affects Maxthon.

So here’s a few tweaks that should bring the goodness of IE8 to your comfy Maxthon 2 installation and even fix some of IE8’s issues:

Tip: “Magically” login to your favorite websites with one click

Maxthon 2 introduced a nifty feature called Magic Fill, this little tool can fill forms with pre-saved data either login information for websites or personal information in registration forms (from what you fill in the Setup Center).

Play button opens the website then fill and submit the login form

Unlike Opera’s Magic wand (and a lot like Roboform’s feature “fill and submit”) you can with Magic fill save time opening a website, clicking the fill button and clicking the submit button by using the sub-menu of the Magic fill button to access your favorite websites, this way it only needs one click to open the site, fill the data and then submitting it.

Clicking the item itself opens the website and fill only while the little “play” button on the right of each item works as a “fill and submit” option.

 

 

 

 

You can choose what sites you would like to keep in this menu by putting a “tick” next to them in Tools > Maxthon setup center > Magic Fill

Maxthon Setup Center's Magic fill section

Follow Maxthon fans on Twitter

Twitter is a simple micro-blogging service where you can post updates under 140 letters as the latest news, comments on what you are doing right now or just what you are having for dinner today.

The twitter phenomena has spread everywhere, from celebrities and Hollywood stars to companies and even presidents. Maxthon fans, developers and users followed the trend and created several Twitter accounts, listed below, we are not aiming at having 1 million followers of course but some shameless promotion won’t harm.

Another update for 2.5.2 (beta3)

It has been a while since the last update for Maxthon 2.x, thankfully the buzz of version 3.0 hasn’t kept the developers team from continuing to improve the 2.x branch and has released another bug fixes beta for 2.5.2 recently (2.5.2.5442 to be exact).

Download
Forum Announcement  (includes changelog)

Vote for Maxthon in 2009′s Webware100 Awards

Another year, another nomination for a “Webware 100″ award, a contest ran by CNet to choose the best 100 programs and services by public voting.

Last year, Maxthon has received an award in the browser category. This year, we hope we can do it again, excited about recent Maxthon 3 news? then go and vote for Maxthon to become a winner again:

http://www.cnet.com/html/ww/100/2009/poll/browsing.html?tag=mncol

You can also put a badge in your forums’ signature or in your site to spread the word:

Maxthon reaches a new milestone with 200,000,000 downloads

 Yes, you read it right, it’s 2 hundred million downloads, while some may think it’s not a big deal, it’s certainly a proof that Maxthon has been growing constantly.*

From the early MyIE2 days till the announcement of version 3.0, Maxthon had an increase in users number, fans number and a heck lot of downloads.

 

* I know that downloads are not equal to users number, but there must be at least 1 new user download between 100 upgrade download, isn’t it?