Maxthon’s MX5 browser offers free features that you’d normally pay for, like password management—and that alone makes it worth checking out.
You’re forgiven if you’ve never heard of Maxthon: The company releases major updates to its browser every two years or so, with an emphasis on cloud data that debuted in conjunction with its 2014 release, Maxthon 4. The company doesn’t register on NetApplications' list of the top browsers, falling somewhere into the last 0.14 percent of the browser market under “other.”
That isn’t stopping Maxthon chief executive Jeff Chen. The goal of the new browser, he said, was to provide an “information assistant” with three key features: an “infobox” to save web pages to the cloud; a Passkeeper password vault; and UUMail, a way of developing email aliases or “shadow email” addresses to insulate you from spam.
As before, Maxthon uses both the Trident and Webkit rendering engines in a bid to render older and newer web pages efficiently. But it’s the additional value-added features that the company wants to make its selling points.
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