techcrunch.com — Multiple sources are confirming that the Chinese/Israeli startup behind the Maxthon Browser has sold a minority stake to Google. The total investment size is rumored to be around $1 million. We are also hearing that this investment is part of a ?much larger strategic deal? between the two companies.
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numfar28Apr 10, 2007
@stoppedcodeFunny you should mention that. According to this page:<a class="user" href="http://www.webdevout.net/browser-support-summary">http://www.webdevout.net/browser-support-summary</a>Both Opera and Firefox are shown to have their shortcomings when it comes to adhering to web standards. Actually Opera is technically ahead of Firefox in CSS 2.1 and DOM compliance. Are there any particular issues incompatibilities you are aware of?
sid0Apr 10, 2007
"Some web pages are a mess in IE. They render fine in Maxthon."That doesn't even begin to compute... except if you have ads on the page which are f**king up the layout, and which Maxthon has blocked.
anastropheApr 10, 2007
absolutely right. i have the following browsers installed:IE7 Maxthon 1.5x Flock Opera Firefoxoccasionally i use firefox, for the occasional site by the occassional asshat true-believer who refuses to even let you look at his website if you're using IE. the others are hardly ever touched.right now, i have 57 tabs open. absolutely, positively, ZERO degradation of performance or responsiveness. click a tab, no delay, no lag going to that tab. memory usage....quite high! that's to be expected with that many pages open - about 232M/215M res/vm. i've had more than 100 tabs open with again no degradation of performance. firefox on the other hand becomes sluggish as hell with more than about 50 tabs open.and yeah, the mouse gestures rock. not that they're unique to maxthon. my PC has never been compromised. the argument that running IEx puts you at risk is meritless. there've been more exploits published for firefox the last couple of years than for IE, if i recall correctly.
jammerdelrayApr 10, 2007
Maxthon & K-melon are both nice.
stoppedcode12Apr 10, 2007
I don't know if it's Google, but Google calendar, Google Notebook, and sometimes Gmail does not work in Opera, these are just a few web apps that I use everyday, but there are also others that I can't think of right now.
psilanthropistApr 10, 2007
google just took some stake and they probably agreed to make them the default search engine (which they prolly already did, but now its offcial) and there will prolly be a mozilla-like google homepage. why is that such a ground breaking story.
Closed AccountApr 11, 2007
Interesting article. Thanks you!Thanks
wiselyApr 12, 2007
I loved Maxthon for over a year until it so easily allowed malwares to infect it and thereafter infect every other application.