There are so many great Web browsers available today that the superpower struggle between IE and Netscape sometimes seems as distant as the Cold War between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. We recently became acquainted with Maxthon, a free browser that offers some unique advantages, such as its Dual Display Modes, Ultra and Retro. Maxthon automatically switches between Ultra Mode, which uses WebKit to render up-to-date sites, and Retro mode, which uses a legacy engine for older sites built with earlier tools. It also offers safe browsing; toolbar apps like notekeeping, translations, feeds, and screen capture; mouse gestures; smart drag-and-drop; autofill; multisearch; and ad and pop-up blockers.

Maxthon installed very quickly, a good start. Its tabbed interface, customizable toolbars, integrated search field, and Favorites menu give Maxthon a familiar feel that we quickly enhanced by importing our bookmarks, something Maxthon can do from IE or any HTML-based browser bookmark file. Like all contenders in the increasingly crowded browser field, Maxthon’s look and features can be customized to suit your needs and moods. The highlighted Safe icon indicated we were visiting a validated Web site; clicking it opened information about the site. The Ad Hunter feature worked quite well, blocking ad pop-ups on the most annoying sites we visit without blocking content we wanted to see; in any case, it’s easy to toggle on and off via an icon on the bottom right. There’s even a mute button built into the lower frame to quickly silence noisy sites. In fact, Maxthon offers a full complement of features and options, and everything we tried worked well.

Now, on to the dual-mode browsing. It’s, in a word, cool. To our knowledge, this is a unique capability that worked very well. A small square on the address bar changes from a yellow lightning bolt to a blue graph icon to indicate which rendering engine is in use. Browsing to a Web site rendered with WebKit tended to make the difference obvious, with crisp graphics that loaded with lightning speed. We could switch manually between Ultra and Retro Mode, too, for Web sites that didn’t render perfectly in WebKit. Try it for yourself and see what makes Maxthon different before the others catch up.

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A browser based on the Internet Explorer engine, Maxthon is probably something of a curiosity for most North American users. It never really caught on there, but elsewhere–especially China–it’s one of the most popular browsers around. It renders pages fast and comes loaded with features, as if Firefox came with 90 percent of its most popular plug-ins.

All the basics are represented here, from tabbed browsing to skins to add-ons, and many of the rolled-in features make Maxthon hard to ignore. Some of our favorite features include rolled-in auto-form filling, the ability to set up bookmark groups that open on start-up–excellent for news or blogs, the ability to autoscroll Web pages, and pop-up and content filters for blocking ads and specific content formats you don’t want. There are also customizable hotkey commands for such nifty features as auto-completing URLs, so if you type “download” and hold down the Ctrl key, it will auto-fill the “http://” and the “.com”.

We also like the super drag-and-drop feature, which lets you directly select and drag keywords to a current Web page or directly to the address bar. Maxthon is fast, small, flexible, and easy to use, and the extra features make it a browser we highly recommend. This version, Classic, differs from the newer Maxthon in several ways–notably by being more stable and less customizable.

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Maxthon for Mac offers everything one would expect from a fully-featured Web browser, with a few innovative features you won’t find anywhere else–yet. Cloud Push is the application’s real standout, though a lack of documentation and support really hinders the learning curve.

Maxthon for Mac installed with ease, and we were online surfing in no time. The browser’s uncluttered interface, similar to Google Chrome’s, leaves plenty of room to display Web sites, though a full-screen option is also available. The lack of Help files within the app, or on the official Web site, left us pushing every button and scanning every menu in search of its much-touted Cloud functions. Eventually, we figured it out and everything functioned as promised. We browsed a random site, right-clicked, and selected Cloud Push. Here we were given the option to push this site to our cloud, to a specific device, or to a friend. We pushed to our iPhone’s Maxthon installation and within seconds it beeped with a notification. We fired up the app on the phone and there was a new tab already open, loading the site we’d just sent. Additionally Cloud Push also worked with individual elements on a Web site, like a picture. Downloaded files could also be saved to our cloud, making it easy to access them from several locations.

Maxthon for Mac offers a solid choice for professionals or students, who find themselves surfing the Web from multiple devices during the day.

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Based on Internet Explorer’s engine, Maxthon is probably something of a curiosity for most North American users. It never really caught on there, but elsewhere–especially China–it’s one of the most popular browsers around. It renders pages fast and comes loaded with features, as if Firefox came with 90 percent of its most popular plug-ins. Maxthon 2 features loads more customization ability, but sacrifices a bit of stability for the privilege. Its design is stylish compared to the old version, and its new approach to accessing functions makes this free browser more competitive.

All the basics are represented here, from tabbed browsing to skins to add-ons, and many of the rolled-in features make Maxthon hard to ignore. Some of our favorite features include rolled-in auto-form filling, the ability to set up bookmark groups that open on start-up–excellent for news or blogs, the ability to autoscroll Web pages, and pop-up and content filters for blocking ads and specific content formats you don’t want. There are also customizable hotkey commands for such nifty features as auto-completing URLs, so if you type “download” and hold down the Ctrl key, it will auto-fill the “http://” and the “.com”. The online favorites service is similar to that offered by other browsers, and works well.

We also like the super drag-and-drop feature, which lets you directly select and drag keywords to a current Web page or directly to the address bar. Maxthon is fast, small, flexible, and easy to use, and the extra features make it a browser we highly recommend for those looking for a change of pace.

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