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An IE-Based Tabbed Browser from China
wannabgeek writes "CNET reports that a new browser, Maxthon is gaining wide popularity in China. 14 percent of Chinese websurfers have used it ... Part of the reason, it has features that help in circumventing the Chinese government censors. CNET says it was shown at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas this year, and is slowly gaining foothold in Europe as well as the U.S."
"CNET reports that a new browser, Maxthon is gaining wide popularity in China. 14 percent of Chinese websurfers have used it ... Part of the reason, it has features that help in circumventing the Shinese government censors. CNET says it was shown at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas this year, and is slowly gaining foothold in Europe as well as the U.S."
First, women slaving away making iPods. Now, they've got trained dogs doing their network censorship. This could have an impact on Shinese-American relations.
Where will it end?
Perhaps China will start using Slashdot editors to proofread the English versions of official propaganda for spelling and grammar! That's almost like trained dogs!
So that means that the goverment can exploit it to add censoring? Won't that be a switch from what we're used to?
- Kal`Goblez
I for one (as a Chinese person) welcome our new Shinese puppy overlords...
I'm the Devil the Windows users warned you about.
"...features that help in circumventing the Shinese government censors."
Hrm. It almost sounds like one of our Engrish-reading friends submitted this story from behind the Great Firewall of Shina.
No sig for you! Come back one year!
Ooh... Shinese!
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
Maxthon hasn't been new for a long time. In fact, the only thing in the article I hadn't heard a million times already was that it's made by a Chinese company. And this "parallels" feature they're working on--sounds like MDI.
Maxthon's been around for years. It used to be called MyIE.
Very True. It used to be called MyIE, and was renamed. It's an add-on for Internet Explorer, and has Asian language support front and center. That's why it's so popular in China. First thing it asks when you start the install is what language you want to use.
It's not too bad, except that it's pretty cluttered, and it's still MSIE.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
"Browsers are very much like a car," said Jacobsson. "Most people don't care what engine is inside, (they) choose which type fits, with the right shape and color."
Yes, I use Opera because it's round & red.
Maxthon isn't all that new. Long time users know it as MyIE2.
If you've ever wondered what a browser with an IE-engine and tabs that didn't suck is like, try Maxthon. It's really lightweight.
For development purposes and sometimes just pure speed (IE feels faster than Firefox sometimes), I keep a copy on my machines alone Firefox.
You should be modded down as redundant anyway, because the title of the story begins "An IE-Based" [...] which makes it quite fucking clear that it's Windows-only, since IE/mac is gone, gone, gone.
If linux users want to run it, they can do it in vmware on a pirated copy of windows like everyone else.*
*Actually, I only run Windows 98 in my vmware right now, and I actually have a license for it... but this is a statistical anomaly.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
So...3 percent of the Chinese Web population employs the Maxthon browser for Web search without having used it?From TFA:
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~ |rip/\/\aster /\/\onkey
You're an idiot.
With that out of the way, Opera doesn't use any part of IE at all. Hell, it barely even uses Windows libraries, since the UI is built using Qt.
Opera uses as much IE as Firefox uses IE: practically none. (Practically because some people might consider opening downloaded files in the Windows shell to be part of IE - namely Microsoft lawyers when trying to prove that IE is a core part of Windows.)
I wonder if Chinese users are aware of TorPack, it is Tor + portable Firefox + some extensions. Being Firefox-based, it can benefit from the wide range of extensions available, and is arguably more secure.
python>>> q="'";s='q="%c";s=%c%s%c;print s%%(q,q,s,q)';print s%(q,q,s,q)
python>>> q="'";s='q="%c";s=%c%s%c;print s%%(q,q,s,q)';print s%(q,q,s,q)
In communist china, search engines search YOU!
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Avant Browser is another tabbed browser based on the IE engine. I prefer firefox for most of my browsing, but I use avant when I have to load up my company's intranet site, which breaks in firefox.