Software Update: Maxthon 3.4.2.2000

Version 3.4.2 of Maxthon has been released. This web browser uses the Trident or WebKit engine to display web pages, but has its own interface with many additional features. functionality, including mouse gestures and online bookmarks. In version 3.0, the Trident IE engine is still present, but the WebKit engine is used by default. This is used by Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome, among others. It is easy to switch between the two engines. Since version 3.4.1, the following changes and improvements have been made:

New Features:

• Supported HTML5 Custom search providers
• New Reader Mode
• Added update of site icons in Favorites
• Supported saving pages as mht files in Ultra Mode
• Added tooltip when extensions successfully installed
• Reserved “Forward/Back” list and scroll bar position in Duplicate Tab
• Added auto update and syncing service of extensions
• Supported HTML5 color input

Improvements:

• Optimized the transcoding efficiency
• Improved the browser startup speed

Fixes:

Main Frame

• Crash problem caused by installing an incomplete skin file
• https security icon display problem
• The tooltip of Safe URL Checker displayed incorrectly
• Tab sync problem
• Improved the interface support for HTML5 Notification
• Tool Bar display problem
• Icon display problem in Source Sniffer
• Side Bar display problem
• Focus lose problem of Address Bar

Web Kit Core

• Slight improvement on WebGL support.
• Incorrect download path when dragged some shortcuts from desktop to Maxthon 3
• The mouse cursor moved following the image after “Quick Saved” Images
• Browsing mode switching problem for some urls
• File name display problem in Source Sniffer
• It printed out the incorrect number of copies
• It did not display .mov videos well through Quicktime
• Maxthon Downloader could not download the programs to a shared computer
• It could not invoke the third-party downloader tools
• Supported searching by drag & drop in address bar
• It could not close Maxthon Downloader dialog box by pressing Alt+F4
• Maxthon Download Manager could not save files into network shared path
• It might fail when downloaded to specific paths
• It did not display the correct icon after download completed
• Some pages displayed as messy code
• Source Sniffer could not recognize the video types when downloaded in bulk
• Some language characters display problem
• No response problem of the browser
• Some ads were displayed by mistake
• Page display problem
• Some error pages did not show completely
• Proxy identity authentication did not work well
• mailto protocol could not invoke mail clients
• Sometimes site background images could not display in Night Mode
• Sync problem of Quick Access background images
• “Save as” dialog box could not remember the type
• It might lose cookies when switched the browsing mode in some pages

Extension Platform

• Sometimes extension status displayed incorrectly in Extension Manager
• Right-click menu of extensions displayed errors
• Focus loss problem of extension windows

Maxthon 3.3.2.1000 screenshot, click on the image for a larger version.