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September 25, 2006

Google Bookmarks Sidebar

The Google Bookmarks Sidebar Plugin for Maxthon was recently released.

This Plugin:

  • Loads your Google Bookmarks favorites in the Maxthon Sidebar
  • Let’s you easily add, edit and delete you Google Bookmarks
  • Includes an incremental (search as you type) searchbox

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David Winer & Maxthon & Gnomedex06!

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This is awesome! Chris Pirillo a.k.a known as "Lockergnome" probably our biggest, pro-active and most passionate evangelists out there, and organiser of the the famous Gnomedex, was using Maxthon as the default browser for all the presentations at Gnomedex06!

Now some of them are available at Podtech.net. Watch them here at PodTech.net . Or what do you say about seeing David Winer talking about " How to make money on the Internet" with a huge projection of Maxthon in the background.

I especially like the one with Farecast, where they guys got a bit confused at the set up and Chris comes in and says " BTW, I use Maxthon as my browser so it opens up as a background Tab.."

This is marketing at it’s best:

  1. A real usage in the right context
  2. A natural part of the presentations
  3. In front of a highly demanding tech, nerd and geek audience (where the majority is probably Firefox users)

We love you forever Chris! There is nothing more passionate than this...

September 20, 2006

Next Maxthon Upgrade to Support Google Toolbar

Just wanted to tell you all that then next Maxthon 1.x release will support the Google Toolbar, so keep your eyes open over the next couple of days. Finally all Maxthon users can enjoy all the benefits the Google Toolbar brings.  On another note we are also happy to announce that Maxthon will be supporting most IE-based toolbars too.

Maxthon Installation on a Mac!


Maxthon Installation...
Originally uploaded by iSomebody.

I thought I was going to be the first to do this. But it seems that somebody else was faster :). Found this pictures of a Maxthon installation on a Mac using CrossoverMac. Cool!

September 19, 2006

Maxthon Developers Conference in Beijing

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Last weekend we invited 10 of our most active Chinese Maxthon developers to Beijing for the first Maxthon developer conference. We had developers coming from all parts of China to the Maxthon headquarters in Beijing. The first day was spend at the Maxthon headquarters meeting with Jeff Chen, Maxthon CEO and founder, the rest of the Maxthon team and a visit to the Tian'nemen square. The second day included a trip to the Great Wall and the Kunming Lake and the Yihe palace. The conference was a hit and we have decided to do a similar developers conference for the international audience in Beijing, time and place yet to be decided. Here’s some picture from the event by Richard (one of the main Maxthon team developers).

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Above is Jeff Chen.. Maxthon founder and CEO welcomes the the crowd and spoke about Maxthon’s history and what lies ahead.

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Breakfast and another presentation about the latest development by the Maxthon team

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Group photo in front of the Maxthon entrance and a happy Maxthon gang at the Great Wall (see the new cool Maxthon flag?).

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The obligatory pictures at Tian’anmen Square, Beijing. For several of the developers this was their first time in Beijing.

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Hanging out at the Kunming Lake, Yihe Palace.

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Saying goodbye is always difficult, but see you again soon. This was the first, but certainly not the last Maxthon developers conference. It was great Maxthon developers bonding after having only known each others by their screen names before in the Maxthon forum. It was also very valuable for us to get input from these core users – after all it is great users like these that makes Maxthon the success that it is.

September 14, 2006

Meeting with abc@home in Hong Kong

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Yesterday I had the opportunity to meet one of the most active Maxthon forum members and plugin developers, Alik Yong a.k.a abc@home. Alik is really a very nice guy who is a finance controller by training, but hangs out it the Maxthon forum when ever he can. We had a great time together chatting about Maxthon and trying to hunt down a Camcorder in a terribly rainy Hong Kong. Unfortunately it was so wet and humid that the picture came out all fuzzy. Anyway it was fun to meet yet another face behind those cryptic screen names. I will try to do this more often when I can and even Vlog it as well in the future. A great thanks to Alik for helping me get a camcorder and a MacBook Pro (do I dare to say that here?) in a soaking wet Hong Kong.

September 11, 2006

Guide to Create Maxthon Plugins

We just released a long waited for Guide to create Maxthon Plugins (PDF). This Guide gives you a clear overview on how to create:

  • Sidebar Plugins
  • Toolbar Plugins
  • COM – Plugins

Please feel free to pass it on to any services out there that you would like to develop plugins for in Maxthon. Since this is the first version, we would love to hear from you on how we can make it better and if anything is missing etc.

September 10, 2006

Typepad, Technorati, coComment in Maxthon

Maxthon has finally got a number of Blog-related Plugins:

  • Technorati
  • Typepad
  • Co.comments

Technorati

The Technorati Sidebar plugin functions similarly to the Technorati Mini . In addition you can:

Typepad

With the Typepad Plugin, you can easily post about something you’ve read Online to your Typepad blog. Just select the text on a website, press the plugin button and post it to your blog. It works just like the “Quick Post” bookmarklet, but can also copy the full html-code from any selection.

Cocomments

The co.Comments Plugin allows you to:

  • Track all the comments you make on blogs and other sites like Digg or forums etc. You can then view the follow-up comments on co.Comment.com .
  • Besides working just like the coComment bookmarklet in Internet Explorer, it also includes links to the coComment homepage and "Your conversations".

Hope that you enjoy them!

 

Meeting with Glaxstar

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Today I met wit Ian Hayward & Willem-Jan Schutte from Glaxstar at the LundKenner office in Copenhagen. Glaxstar is the biggest commercial developer of Firefox extensions and are responsible for the very successful Spread Firefox campaign. Ian & Willem are great guys and we have some very interesting projects to work on together ahead of us.

September 01, 2006

Latest Maxthon 2.0 Preview Available!

Hey all!

The latest preview version (2.0.0.7507) is released. Thanks for your constant support!
Download it from here.

Update List:

+ Add Multi-thread tab, which increase the overall performance greatly.
+ Clean private data.
+ Add internal Mouse gesture UpLeft,UpRight,Down,Up.
+ Add Middle mouse to close tab.
+ Add Resume Last session dialog at start up.
+ Add/Remove button to toolbar context menu.
+ Add Middle click to open link.
+ Add "force open in backgroud" button to status bar.
+ Add "Open new link" button to status bar.
+ Undo list will keep the list across sessions.
+ Remember Interface style selection.
* Fixed when lock toolbar, the favorite bar drawing problem.
* Select 'none' for boss key would result in wrong display name.
* Fixed "Reset toolbar would result in translation back to English"
* Fixed "Switch frame/non-frame mode would cause main frame drawing problem"
* Fixed "Address bar drawing problem, when switching from https site to normal site".
* Acclerators work event address bar has focus.
* Fixed a problem that may cause high CPU cost when more tabs are opened.