Maxthon Cloud Browser 4.1.3.2000 Released!

Here's a bit of what Maxthon says about it's security:
http://forum.maxthon.com/thread-3695-1-1.html

 

I am pretty confident with Maxthon's security. In the three years I have been using Maxthon I have never been infected with anything whilst running it.

 

Has anyone tried NoAds? I tried it a while ago with little success. I just wondered if any other Mx users had any experience of using it.

 

PortableApps Maxthon v4.1.3.4000

 

Maxthon Cloud Browser 4.1.3.5000 Official Released!

 

Got it this morning when I turned on the computer, it popped up with update notice.
When I installed Maxthon, I didn't install a flash player, but Maxthon plays flash - I'm assuming it has a built-in flash player?

 

AFAIK Mx does indeed have a built in flash:

"The following are accumulated features of the Maxthon browser, culminating in Maxthon 4.

Split screen option: divides open tabs into left and right of screen when this option is chosen; Sides operate independently.

Tabbed document interface

Saves open tabs in case of program shutdown or system crash

Undo for any tabs accidentally closed

AD Hunter - an ad blocking utility that blocks pop-up ads, Web banner and floating ads in webpages

Adobe Flash, Java applet and ActiveX blocker

Support for custom skins

Customisable tabs and user interface

Programmable mouse gestures and mouse chording

External utility bar – a toolbar that allows you to open third-party programs

RSS reader

Supports many Internet Explorer plugins as well as plugins of its own

Partial Gecko engine support with the use of a third-party program

A user extensible search toolbar with 8 default search engines

Automatic updates

Groups – the ability to bookmark & open multiple pages simultaneously

URL aliases – open URLs by just typing a word in the address bar

Simple collector – a small notepad-like utility, used to collect text from web pages. Scripts and macros can be run in the current web page

Integrated web services – user extensible, including by default translators, Google's cached version of pages, Whois, and anonymous web proxies"

(Wikipedia)

 

I tried it and couldn't see any difference it made.

 

I don't think it is very successful, I don't know why though. Probably something to do with the filters. AdHunter has vastly improved over the past couple of years. Having said that though, I think that even QupZilla's built-in adblocker with a choice of multiple filter lists is far more effective than AdHunter. Maxthon has just about everything you could want in a browser already built-in. But a built-in flashblocker & really good adblocker would be the icing on the cake so to speak. LOL

It will be interesting to see what the Blink-engined Mx will be like. Jeff Chen has promised that there will be no loss of functionality. So I doubt it will end up like Opera.

 

PortableApps Mx v4.1.3.5000

This is a stability fix predominantly.

 

It looks like the Maxthon Flag extension (similar to Flagfox) has been updated for Mx 4. It seems to be running well.

 

Maxthon Cloud Browser Beta Gets Performance Improvements

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Maxthon-Cloud-Browser-Beta-Gets-Performance-Improvements-Free-Download-402480.shtml

 

I've never actually run the beta. The PortableApps stable release version is buggy enough!