Maxthon browser's features
From China, the browser has caught on in Europe, and now somewhat in the United States thanks to an appearance with Microsoft at the Consumer Electronics Show.
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Maxthon browser
Maxthon, a browser made by a tiny Beijing company of the same name, has attracted millions of users in China for functionality that can funnel traffic through a Web proxy and circumvent government controls on information in search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN and Baidu.com.
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Tabbed browsing
Maxthon's browser is highly customizable with hundreds of "skins" and includes tabbed browsing, baked-in RSS detection and readers, and remote-file access in partnership with software company Avvenu.
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Parallel browsing
This summer, Maxthon will release a new version, Maxthon 2.0, that will include parallel browsing, similar to the picture-in-picture feature on TVs, in which surfers can browse several sites in parallel.
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