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July 2010 Progress Report

08.12.2010 · Posted in Browser Wire

New releases On July 4th, we released Tor Browser Bundle 1.3.7 for Microsoft Windows. This is a security update for Firefox and Pidgin. The changes are: update to Firefox 3.5.10 and Pidgin Instant Messenger 2.7.1r2 to fix some security issues. On July... ...

Never Browse in a Straight Line

08.11.2010 · Posted in Browser Wire

We all get the feeling at one time or another that someone’s looking over our shoulders while we search the Internet, someone worse than your boss or spouse. And all of us are right. There are a lot of snoops on the net trailing us like a bloodhound. Luckily, it’s a bloodhound with stuff noise, ...

A User Interface Tweaker for Maxthon 3

08.10.2010 · Posted in Browser Wire

Those of you who don’t hang around much at the Maxthon Forum should jetski–not surf–over to the forum to pick up abc@home’s Maxthon 3 Interface Tweaker. Maxthon 3 isn’t even out officially yet, and abc@home has devised an unofficial tool to modify the look and function of Max3’s menus and toolbars. Here. A screenshot will gives ...

A Great Video about a Great Browser

07.10.2010 · Posted in Browser Wire

Computers Zine has posted a video review of Maxthon that will warm the cockles of any Maxthon enthusiast. The video by ZOmbieKangarO was actually posted on YouTube several months ago, and since then it has been watched more than 4,000 times. I think the reason for its popularity is the unbridled joy that ZOmbieKangarO has ...

Maxthon Developer Silences the Deadly Vuvuzela

07.01.2010 · Posted in Browser Wire

Like most sane people in the world, Maxthon developer Mr. K  could feel his nerves crawl as he watched the World Cup soccer games whenever someone blew a vuvuzela, a cheap plastic horn that makes a sound that’s a cross between fingers scratching on a blackboard and the mating call of a hyena being stung ...

Be a Windows God. Really. You Gotta Do This.

06.23.2010 · Posted in Browser Wire

Usually this blog is devoted to Maxthon or at least pointing out the advantages of Maxthon over Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Microsoft Internet Explorer or any other browser you can find on the Internet. But when I came across this tip for evoking Windows Godmode from Craig Buckner at Sitepoint, it was too ...

Firefox’s Tail’s on Fire

04.22.2010 · Posted in Browser Wire

Something politicians like to do–at least in the U.S.–is create truth squads to track what their opponents say and then, when an opponents makes a slip, accuse the rival of being the vilest sort of liar – the kind who would accuse this grandmother of eating the last piece of cake, Now, we at Maxthon wouldn’t ...

Maxthon Adds GPU Rendering for Smoother Text on Web Pages

04.15.2010 · Posted in Browser Wire

Beijing–April 14, 2010–Browser developer Maxthon International this week announced a technical preview version of the upcoming Maxthon 3.0 that uses a computer’s graphics processing unit (GPU), a microprocessor on a PC’s graphics card, to display smoother text on Web pages. GPU rendering will used in conjunction with Webkit, one of two code sets that make up ...