Maxthon Looks to Cement Its Status as One of the Best Web Browser

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Tue Apr 14, 2009 8:01am EDT

BEIJING, April 14 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- The users of Maxthon browser and
its developers are hoping to make it two in a row -- a second top win among
internet products voted into the Webware 100 for best Web 2.0 apps and
services. The voting process will continue until April 30, and winners will be
announced on May 19.
    Last year in the competition sponsored by Webware and CNET, Maxthon
garnered a fourth of all of the 2 million votes in all categories.
    In early April of 2009, downloads of Maxthon from the browser's official
site -- http://www.maxthon.com -- reached the 200 million mark. This figure
does not include other millions of users that downloaded Maxthon from
individual sites.
    Maxthon's development team recently disclosed that Maxthon 3.0, the latest
version, to be due out later this year, will support dual Web-page rendering
engines. One engine, based on the same Webkit development software as Google
Chrome and Apple Safari, will provide fast rendering of pages that are
creating using the latest standard methods. The other engine, Trident, is the
same as that used by Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and provides the greatest
compatibility with pages using old coding standards.
    Users can vote for Maxthon as the best web browser at
http://www.cnet.com/html/ww/100/2009/poll/browsing.html?tag=mncol
    Further information about Webware100:
    Webware100 is an annual program in which CNET readers select the top Web
2.0 apps and services from a hand-picked list of 300 finalists. This year --
the third year for the competition, CNET received about 5,000 qualifying
submissions from which CNET editors selected the final 300. The 2009 Webware
100 Awards will honor the people's choice.
SOURCE  Maxthon

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