abc@home

After long time development, Maxthon is pleased to announce the release of Maxthon 2.0 official. Maxthon 2.0 does not only inherit Maxthon 1.x's excellence, but also introduces many innovative/unique features and improvements. New Skinning System Maxthon 2.0 has a much refined, and one of the most sophisticated skinning systems. Just take a look at the dozens of beautiful 2.0 skins available in the Maxthon Resources Center: http://http://addons.maxthon.com/category/MX2+Skins Highly Customizable Interface Few applications have interface as customizable as Maxthon 2.0, not to mention that without manually editing configuration files, installing extensions, or hacking the executable. Creating a highly personalized interface in Maxthon 2.0 can be as simple as holding a button and a few mouse drags: http://forum.maxthon.com/index.php?showtopic=62624 Ads and Annoyances Blocking In addition to the good old content filter, which has also been improved to support regular expression, Maxthon 2.0 supports sophisticated text filter, which was previously available only in advanced and dedicated applications like proxomitron and privoxy. With text filter, Maxthon 2.0 can not only block any ad or unwanted content, also also block any annoying or malicious code: http://forum.maxthon.com/index.php?showtopic=62875 Maxthon Smart Acceleration By utilizing the internet cache more smartly, Maxthon 2.0 can considerably improve the ordinary browsing speed. Speed improvement will be especially noticeable for users having slow connection or browsing sites with slow connection: http://forum.maxthon.com/index.php?showtopic=56889 Advanced Proxy Proxies are often necessary for speed, accessibility or annoymity. But no single proxy serves all purposes, so Maxthon 2.0 enables the use of different proxies for different sites automatically. Setting a site to automatically use or not use a proxy can be as simple as a few mouse clicks: http://forum.maxthon.com/index.php?showtopic=62865 Multi-Users Support Maxthon 2.0 supports both Windows user account and custom Maxthon User Profile. The password protected Maxthon User profile can protect user privacy without compromising portability. Both Maxthon 2.0 and Maxthon User Profiles can be carried in portable devices and used in any compatible windows system. CPU Saving Mode Option Turn off media playback and other CPU intensive activities in the background tabs to enable much smoother browsing in the active tab. Activities turned off will be resumed when the background tab is activated. Multi-Thread UI Technology A technology which can greatly reduces the occurrence of browser lock up and crash due to various web page issues. [Anti-Lockup Test] Online Favorites Users can use the same favorites and groups in any computer, eg. home, work, internet cafe, without using portable devices or 3rd-party web services. Magic Fill Advanced form filling function comparable to dedicated commercial form filling tools. Save filled forms for auto filling, and fill forms with multiple preset general profiles. Flash Back and Forward Maxthon 2.0 supports near instant back and forward function, and it does not consume several dozen MBs extra memory for holding the viewed pages. Trusted Website Check Address Bar will show the Trusted icon and its background will turn green when trusted/genuine website is visited. Help you secure your online transcations. Security Updates Extra defence against malicious codes, which can mitigate the risk of most upatched IE vulnerabilities which may affect Maxthon. Changes from Maxthon 2.0 RC4 are as follows: Anti-Freeze The emergence of Tabbed Browsing Mode and the increasing usage of Ajax Technology in websites might cause frequent freezing while browsing. [Test] Maxthon Browser has developed a new technology to solve this problem, makes your surfing more fluently. Trusted Website Check Address Bar will show the Trusted icon and its background will turn green when you visit a trusted website. Help you secure your online transcations. Fix several bugs that might cause freeze or crash Other Changes: * Fixed "Add to Favorites" command in Right-Click Menu on Page Links will not use Link's URL * Improved the speed of internal functions * New About Dialog * Fixed Some Options will not take effects after clicking Apply in Setup Center + Added Single-Click on Tray Icon to Show/Hide Maxthon Window - Split Screen View is temporary removed * Fixed Drag&Drop Utilities onto Main Toolbar and display Text Label under Icon cause Crash * Fixed Uninstaller will delete all sub-folders under installation folder * Better support for Socks4/5 proxies * Fixed Switch Tabs too fast might cause crash * Drag&Drop the end of Address Box and Search Box can change their sizes * Fxied Close Tab in Multi-Thread Tab Mode might cause crash Download Maxthon 2.0

Andreasvb

Thanks for the new version. Let's see what it goes for. * Allow only one Maxthon window - Greyed out. * There's no visible option for %tab * Open Blank Tab & Duplicate Current Tab - Both are greyed out. * Show notification window when feeds are found - Greyed out. * Show Tooltip for Super Drag&Drop and Mouse Gestures - Greyed out * Open all links in selection while performing Super Drag&Drop Show user-friendly error page Ignore ID attribute in frameset Handle DDE Call from other programs while running (Restart Required) - All are greyed out * Enable Aero Glass effect of Windows Vista (Restart Required) - Doesn't work. * Show "Tab Manager" button when X or more tabs are opened - Won't show for me. * Screen Capture options looks unfinished. * And still when you save tabs in order 1,2,3,4,5 it will open as 1,5,4,3,2. Why isn't this fixed yet? This doesn't seem like final to me. Don't know if the greyed out options are disabled only because I removed my config.ini to make it use default.

abc@home

The official version is a milestone for stability and useability. The advanced options will be enabled in future versions. [:smile:]

elias

- No expedient popups - No toolbar support - Not even online update for the core components? Don't rest here, there is a lot to do []

linx05

'Use CTRL+ARROW key to switch tabs' feature still doesn't work for me. Is it just me? I remember when we were all clambering over the preview pics of Maxthon 2.0. Now it is final. Time flies. Although I think there is still a lot of work to do, this new version of Maxthon has come a long way. Good job developers!

pekkle

Congratulation to Maxthon! []

johnny-legend

Fastest and most stable Maxthon2 release for a long time.

Direct2Brain

The most important good news for this final version are: - Max 2.0 seems fast and stable; - Finally the memory usage is good for me, always under 100 Mb. of RAM with 8-10 tabs open. Great work BC. []

Swimm12984

so far so good [] still a few more things promised and not seen yet but I'm not complaining. All in all, very good work!

tomclarence

congratulations...

Whiteshark

Other changes: The "Proxy Management" and "Check for Updates" dialog boxes are now fully translatable [] []

shaana

congratulations too []

sasquach

great news but what about firefox you promised official release of 2.0? for me it's the most awaited feature.

linx05

Firefox? I assume you mean browsing with the Gecko engine. That wasn't promised for the 2.0 final. We'll have to wait some time for that.

bryan

What is the MEM usage of about 5 tabs after the final release? Still very high?

kana48

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Original posted byabc@home at 2007-07-23 11:18 After long time development, Maxthon is pleased to announce the release of Maxthon 2.0 official. Changes from Maxthon 2.0 RC4 are as follows: Anti-Freeze The emergence of Tabbed Browsing Mode and the increasing usage of Ajax Technology in websites might cause frequent freezing while browsing. [Test] Maxthon Browser has developed a new technology to solve this problem, makes your surfing more fluently. Trusted Website Check Address Bar will show the Trusted icon and its background will turn green when you visit a trusted website. Help you secure your online transcations. Fix several bugs that might cause freeze or crash Other Changes: * Fixed "Add to Favorites" command in Right-Click Menu on Page Links will not use Link's URL * Improved the speed of internal functions * New About Dialog * Fixed Some Options will not take effects after clicking Apply in Setup Center + Added Single-Click on Tray Icon to Show/Hide Maxthon Window - Split Screen View is temporary removed * Fixed Drag&Drop Utilities onto Main Toolbar and display Text Label under Icon cause Crash * Fixed Uninstaller will delete all sub-folders under installation folder * Better support for Socks4/5 proxies * Fixed Switch Tabs too fast might cause crash * Drag&Drop the end of Address Box and Search Box can change their sizes * Fxied Close Tab in Multi-Thread Tab Mode might cause crash Download Maxthon 2.0

Tanks a lot for the new version. I suppose there is a little inconsistence in the downloading page mirror. You write this version is the 2.0.2.2961, but after clicking the Download Maxthon 2.0 the version dowloading is 2.0.2.2324 RC4 beta instead!!!!! [] Thanks again and have a nice day

UFO

cool. shouldn't the forum remove the "beta" from "maxthon 2 beta" now?

linx05

QUOTE(bryan @ 2007-07-23 10:23:45 PM) [snapback]405414[/snapback]

What is the MEM usage of about 5 tabs after the final release? Still very high?

It is a lot better in this version. Maybe it was to do with debugging code. It's under 100mb here. I use to easily hit 200mb+. If you minimise Maxthon and then bring it back up, the memory reduces a lot. With one tab it's 15mb.

QUOTE(linx05 @ 2007-07-23 07:48:22 PM) [snapback]405398[/snapback]

'Use CTRL+ARROW key to switch tabs' feature still doesn't work for me. Is it just me?

Can anybody check this please?

@kana48
Clear your cache.

UFO

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'Use CTRL+ARROW key to switch tabs' feature still doesn't work for me. Is it just me?

Can anybody check this please?

-from some reason, it doesn't work for me as well.
i also sometimes get an ajax error, and sometimes maxthon crash. i feel as if RC3 was better than this version and rc4 .

UFO

ummm... why did maxthon put my post so many times? can any of the moderators please delete them? EDIT: also this one.