Maxthon Changelog

What's new in Maxthon 5.1.56

Jul 6, 2018
  • Maxthon account supports China Mobile Section No 199.

New in Maxthon 5.1.50 (Apr 28, 2018)

  • Optimized switching account.
  • Fixed the known bug.

New in Maxthon 5.1.48 (Apr 15, 2018)

  • Optimized tab settings.
  • Bug fixed.

New in Maxthon 5.1.46 (Apr 1, 2018)

  • Optimized on some features.
  • Bug fixed.

New in Maxthon 5.1.44 (Mar 16, 2018)

  • Optimized on some features.
  • Bug fixed.

New in Maxthon 5.1.42 (Mar 4, 2018)

  • Optimized on some features.
  • Bug fixed.

New in Maxthon 5.1.40 (Feb 12, 2018)

  • Optimized the visual sense of the Chinese New Year theme homepage.
  • Added Mining feature.
  • Supported registering with phone numbers starting with 16X.
  • Synchronized Quick Access and upgrade the effect on visual logo.
  • Moved the Adblock plus switch to setting page.
  • Fixed the bug of the download button being put to transparent gradually under special cases.
  • Fixed other known issues.

New in Maxthon 5.0.36 (Jan 12, 2018)

  • Optimized login/registration.
  • Optimized tab logic.
  • Changed App Name when Installed to Maxthon Browser.

New in Maxthon 5.0.34 (Dec 9, 2017)

  • Address bar optimization.
  • Tag Management Optimization.
  • Automatic login optimization.
  • Fixed an issue that some types of websites could not upload attachments.
  • Performance optimization.

New in Maxthon 5.0.32 (Nov 10, 2017)

  • Fixed some known crash issue, optimized browser's stability.

New in Maxthon 5.0.30 (Nov 6, 2017)

  • This update fixed the following issues:
  • Improved the Passkeeper’s loading effect, fixed some known issues on Passkeeper
  • Fixed the issue of some users failed to synchronize data when logging in Maxthon Now
  • Fixed the issue of can’t share the screenshot on Weibo

New in Maxthon 5.0.28 (Sep 16, 2017)

  • Passkeeper message verification function added
  • Fixed the possibly abnormal conditions of Passkeeper when disconnection with network
  • Enhanced browser performance
  • Fixed the potential problems of memory and bugs could caused crash, browser stability enhanced.

New in Maxthon 5.0.26 (Aug 29, 2017)

  • Passkeeper message verification function added
  • Fixed the possibly abnormal conditions of Passkeeper when disconnection with network
  • Enhanced browser performance
  • Fixed the potential problems of memory and bugs could caused crash, browser stability enhanced.

New in Maxthon 5.0.23 (Aug 7, 2017)

  • Maxnote can be shared now
  • Optimize data import feature
  • Optimize browser performance, reduce memory usage
  • Bugs fixed

New in Maxthon 5.0.22 (Aug 4, 2017)

  • Maxnote can be shared now
  • Optimize data import feature
  • Optimize browser performance, reduce memory usage
  • Bugs fixed

New in Maxthon 5.0.20 (Jun 30, 2017)

  • Updated browser UI
  • Updated history management
  • Optimization on settings page
  • Passkeeper adds backup restore entry
  • Passkeeper adds exceptional sites management
  • Optimization on Maxnote storage occupation
  • Fixed https sites certificate invalid pop up after pressing continue
  • Fixed double click tab top blank area with no maximizing
  • Fixed lots of bugs, increased stability

New in Maxthon 5.0.19 (Jun 8, 2017)

  • Support auto importing local favorite data the first time login to Maxthon5
  • Seamlessly sync from Maxthon4 to Maxthon5, upgrade with no worries;
  • Register with personal account to sign in with enhanced security. Guest mode is also available;
  • “Maxnote”, an upgraded “favorite bookmark”;
  • Link, web content, snapshot—forever save all types of content for your use;
  • Inspiration, agenda, meeting minutes—note anything anytime across all your devices;
  • “Passkeeper”: upgraded “auto-fill” with more secure and customizable passwords management;
  • “UUMail”: disposable shadow mail boxes help avoid leaking of your real email address;
  • New Tab page, only for you: customizable background including GIF pictures; draggable sites, freely formed folders, easier to manage;
  • Optimized “full-screen” video playing visual effect, give you ultimate viewing experience;
  • Optimized “reader mode”, lighter and clearer web page reading experience.

New in Maxthon 5.0.18 (May 26, 2017)

  • Seamlessly sync from Maxthon4 to Maxthon5, upgrade with no worries;
  • Register with personal account to sign in with enhanced security. Guest mode is also available;
  • “Maxnote”, an upgraded “favorite bookmark”;
  • Link, web content, snapshot—forever save all types of content for your use;
  • Inspiration, agenda, meeting minutes—note anything anytime across all your devices;
  • “Passkeeper”: upgraded “auto-fill” with more secure and customizable passwords management;
  • “UUMail”: disposable shadow mail boxes help avoid leaking of your real email address;
  • New Tab page, only for you: customizable background including GIF pictures; draggable sites, freely formed folders, easier to manage;
  • Optimized “full-screen” video playing visual effect, give you ultimate viewing experience;
  • Optimized “reader mode”, lighter and clearer web page reading experience.

New in Maxthon 5.0.17 (May 22, 2017)

  • Seamlessly sync from Maxthon4 to Maxthon5, upgrade with no worries;
  • Register with personal account to sign in with enhanced security. Guest mode is also available;
  • “Maxnote”, an upgraded “favorite bookmark”;
  • Link, web content, snapshot—forever save all types of content for your use;
  • Inspiration, agenda, meeting minutes—note anything anytime across all your devices;
  • “Passkeeper”: upgraded “auto-fill” with more secure and customizable passwords management;
  • “UUMail”: disposable shadow mail boxes help avoid leaking of your real email address;
  • New Tab page, only for you: customizable background including GIF pictures; draggable sites, freely formed folders, easier to manage;
  • Optimized “full-screen” video playing visual effect, give you ultimate viewing experience;
  • Optimized “reader mode”, lighter and clearer web page reading experience.

New in Maxthon 4.5.3 (Oct 30, 2016)

  • Support macOS Sierra

New in Maxthon 4.5.2 (May 1, 2015)

  • New function:
  • Synchronization the Magic Fill data
  • Mouse gesture support
  • Fix bug and optimization:
  • Solve the touchpad gestures collapse on 10.10.3
  • Optimization of the address bar

New in Maxthon 4.5.1 (Mar 12, 2015)

  • Maxthon is faster than ever before with the power of OS X Yosemite.So sites are more responsive and fundamental experience are significantly enhanced.
  • New features:
  • "Open Link in New Tab" feature added
  • "Save Image As..."feature added
  • Other improvements:
  • Bug fixes and performance improvements

New in Maxthon 4.5.0 (Feb 19, 2015)

  • New features:
  • Improved gestures
  • Scroll left or right with two fingers to swipe between pages
  • Pinch with two fingers to zoom in or out
  • Improved page rendering speed
  • Other improvements:
  • UI adjustment
  • Bug fixes and performance improvements

New in Maxthon 4.4.0 (Dec 16, 2014)

  • New features:
  • Sleek new design inspired by OS X Yosemite
  • Choose your tab action through browser setting page
  • Import html format bookmarks through "File"-"Import Bookmarks"
  • Optimized addressbar with even more search suggestions
  • Optimized page zoom in and zoom out mechanism
  • Speed:
  • Optimized page rendering and page open speed
  • Browser startup speed optimization
  • Bug fix:
  • Fix an issue that may cause some websites display abnormal
  • Browser stability improvement
  • Fix an issue that may cause browser windows inactive in certain circumstances
  • Optimized UI and performance for OS X 10.9.x and 10.8.x

New in Maxthon 4.3.1 (Oct 24, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Yosemite Support
  • Reader mode for better reading
  • Easily sign in to your favorite websites with "Maxthon Auto Fill"
  • Manage your bookmark(s) easily with right click on bookmark bar
  • Hot Words on speed dial page
  • Improvements
  • Improved address bar and keyboard shortcuts
  • UI and stability improvements

New in Maxthon 4.1.3.5000 Beta (Sep 9, 2014)

  • Improvements: Optimized Speed dail(s)

New in Maxthon 4.3.0 (Aug 19, 2014)

  • New Ads block feature added
  • New Drag&Drop feature added
  • Improved search feature
  • Improved address bar
  • Bug fixes and performance improvements

New in Maxthon 4.2.3 (Jul 16, 2014)

  • Newly added feature 'Hot Words' in speed dail page
  • Added new browser languages
  • Optimized download feature
  • Improved websites compatibility
  • Includes bug fixes and other improvements

New in Maxthon 4.2.2 (Jun 13, 2014)

  • Newly added ‘Cloud Tab Syncing’ feature
  • Newly added ‘New window’and ‘New private window’ through dock
  • Optimization on the address bar
  • Better download feature and optimized UI
  • Advanced Maxthon login/logout mechanism
  • The ability to open the saved pages with Maxthon
  • Improved the overall performance on OS X 10.8.5
  • Includes bug fixes and other improvements

New in Maxthon 4.2.1 (May 15, 2014)

  • New Feature:
  • Use QR code to share web pages
  • Improvements:
  • Set focus to Address Bar in a new tab
  • Improved Print
  • Improved Quick Access
  • Improved Download Manager
  • Lots of UI changes
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed some settings failing to load when switching accounts.
  • Fixed unable to log out during automatic logging-in

New in Maxthon 4.2.0 (Apr 14, 2014)

  • News features:
  • Added Recently Closed feature with its Trackpad Gesture
  • Added "Save Page As..." feature
  • Added Web Page Search feature
  • Improvements:
  • Optimized Address Bar UI
  • Optimized Menu UI
  • Optimized Download Manager UI
  • Several optimizations when switching accounts
  • Optimized Settings Center for Recently Closed feature
  • Improved stability and performance
  • Fixes:
  • fixed a bug on memorizing window size

New in Maxthon 4.1.3.4000 Beta (Feb 27, 2014)

  • Fixes: Fix that videos are not available on certain websites.

New in Maxthon 4.1.3.2000 Beta (Dec 5, 2013)

  • New feature: History Calendar in the History Manager
  • Optimization: Better support for Flash

New in Maxthon 4.1.3.1000 Beta (Nov 22, 2013)

  • New feature: New History
  • Improvement: Better support for Mac OS X 10.9.1

New in Maxthon 4.1.2.2000 Beta (Nov 8, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Supported suggestions for search engines in Speed Dial
  • Added BTDigg in search engines
  • Optimization:
  • Optimized Reader Mode
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed some extensions failing to display popups properly on Mac OS X 10.9

New in Maxthon 4.1.2.1000 Beta (Oct 23, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • OS X 10.9 Mavericks support
  • Speed Dial groups

New in Maxthon 4.1.1.1000 Beta (Oct 10, 2013)

  • New feature:
  • Use QR code to send web pages
  • Optimization:
  • Better support for Flash
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed the browser remembering passwords when users chose not to
  • Fixed HTML5 Youtube videos not playing

New in Maxthon 4.1.0.3000 Beta (Sep 26, 2013)

  • Improvements:
  • Many tiny fixes
  • Better Support for Flash

New in Maxthon 4.1.0.2000 Beta (Sep 3, 2013)

  • Improvements:
  • Improved the start-up speed of Speed Dial
  • Better plugins-load mechanism
  • Better cloud-services-load mechanism
  • Improved the stability
  • Optimized Skin feature

New in Maxthon 4.1.0.1000 Beta (Aug 15, 2013)

  • New Feature:
  • New Quick Access
  • New Reader Mode

New in Maxthon 4.0.6.3000 Beta (Aug 2, 2013)

  • Fixes:
  • Improved stability on Mac OS X 10.7.0 and 10.7.2

New in Maxthon 4.0.6.2000 Beta (Aug 1, 2013)

  • Improvements:
  • Better Support for PDF
  • Better Support for Flash
  • Improved performance when using Pinch trackpad gesture

New in Maxthon 4.0.6.1000 Beta (Jul 11, 2013)

  • New Feature:
  • Share feature
  • Improvement:
  • Improved the stability of cloud services

New in Maxthon 4.0.5.3000 Beta (Jun 27, 2013)

  • Improvements:
  • Updated Flash
  • Improved extension support
  • Improved support for animation when using Trackpad gesture to go back/forward

New in Maxthon 4.0.5.2000 Beta (Jun 10, 2013)

  • Fixes:
  • Improved the stability in Mac OS X 10.6.8
  • Improved the stability when used touch gestures in popup windows
  • It freezed sometimes when operating on touchpad
  • Some page previews were zoomed in if used ‘Forward’/’Back’ feature with Retina display
  • The trackpad gestures wouldn't reverse if 'Scrolling Direction: Natural' disabled in System Preference.

New in Maxthon 4.0.5.1000 Beta (Jun 6, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Trackpad gestures
  • Supported customizing search engines

New in Maxthon 4.0.4.4000 Beta (May 23, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Supported the installation of local crx extension files
  • Supported customizing page fonts
  • Supported customizing the loading mode of built-in plug-ins

New in Maxthon 4.0.4.3000 Beta (May 9, 2013)

  • New Feature:
  • Smart Zoom (Double-tap with two fingers)
  • Improvements:
  • Improved the icons loading speed in Quick Access page
  • Improved the browser stability
  • Fixes:
  • Buttons in main UI disappeared after enabled ‘Full Screen’ in v10.6
  • Skins might lose after switching Maxthon Accounts

New in Maxthon 4.0.4.2000 Beta (Apr 25, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Skin Center
  • Supported hiding and displaying extensions
  • Allowed extensions to visit file urls
  • Added 75 extensions in Extension Center
  • Improvements:
  • Improved the stability of cloud features
  • Support displaying the download remaining time in download window
  • Fixes:
  • Status display problem of ‘Back’ and ‘Forward’ button in tool bar after switching Maxthon accounts
  • Slow loading speed of the search engine icon in Quick Access

New in Maxthon 4.0.4.1000 Beta (Apr 11, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • GPU acceleration of video decoding
  • Quick Access customization
  • Support for MathML
  • Improvements:
  • The main UI of the browser
  • Improved the support for FLASH
  • Improved the support for HTML5
  • Improved the support for WebGL
  • Fixes:
  • Some crash problems
  • It could not turn to previous pages in Quick Access if contracted the browser window
  • Background_page extensions would reload if switched Maxthon account
  • Problem about user online status in Cloud Push when slept the computer
  • Download manager display problem

New in Maxthon 4.0.3.6000 Beta (Feb 25, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Supported the extensions in Chrome Web Store
  • Supported cloud pushing files in Maxthon Download Manager
  • Improvements:
  • UI of Cloud Push
  • UI of passport login panel
  • UI of user profile panel
  • Fixes:
  • Local-saved password did not work when switched account
  • Site icons in Address Bar drop-down list did not display clearly
  • It would open a new tab when closing windows by shortcuts

New in Maxthon 4.0.3.3000 Beta (Jan 31, 2013)

  • Improvements:
  • Optimized the memory usage
  • Improved the browser startup speed

New in Maxthon 4.0.3.2000 Beta (Jan 17, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Quick Access syncing service
  • Improvements:
  • Optimized the Quick Access thumbnails
  • Optimized the user experience of closing the lastest tab
  • Optimized the reminder when pushed something to friends
  • Fixes:
  • Font blur problem in extensions
  • Some accounts could not log in caused by avatar loading failure
  • ‘Copy URL’ did not work during the download pregress
  • ‘Extension Manager’ did not work when right-clicked the extensions
  • It would open the link in background page when pressing ‘command’ key

New in Maxthon 4.0.3.1000 Beta (Jan 8, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Added sharing web content or files with friends in 'Cloud Push'

New in Maxthon 4.0.0.2000 Beta (Dec 10, 2012)

  • New Features:
  • Cloud Push
  • Cloud Tabs
  • Cloud Download
  • Supported logging in Maxthon Passport with phone numbers
  • New Site Navigation in New Tab page
  • Added "When I open a new Tab, switch to it immediately" in Settings
  • Improvements:
  • Optimized Settings Center
  • Improved the main UI
  • Improved the support for Gmail
  • Fix:
  • Improve the browser stability in Full Screen

New in Maxthon 1.0.4.2000 Beta (Sep 28, 2012)

  • Fixes:
  • Could not get site previews when added/edited urls in Quick Access
  • No content in Favorites Manager if switched the browser account
  • Improved the browser stability when switched the browser account

New in Maxthon 1.0.4.1000 Beta (Sep 18, 2012)

  • New Features:
  • Supported Retina Display
  • Supported PDF reading
  • Browser skin switch
  • Mouse Gesture
  • Improvements:
  • Improved the support for HTML5
  • Improved the support for Flash
  • Improved the support for MP3 play
  • Optimized the font display effect in Reader Mode
  • Fixes:
  • "Always Allow" of KeyChain Access did not work
  • Maxthon would be added into Login Items after installation
  • It would open a new window when clicked "Open recent closed page"
  • "Open download folders" window would be behind the browser window

New in Maxthon 1.0.3.1000 Beta 954 (Aug 17, 2012)

  • Fixed no response problem of click events in some sites (Yahoo Mail etc).

New in Maxthon 1.0.3.0 Beta 913 (Aug 14, 2012)

  • New Features:
  • Drag & Drop
  • Improvements:
  • Fixed part of problems about that could not install Maxthon for Mac in OS X Mountain Lion
  • Optimized auto login module, improving the loading speed
  • Optimized drop-down list UI
  • Supported uploading gif format avatar
  • Optimized the refreshing method of account switching