Maxthon Max-3 Faster Than Chrome

Posted by Sierra Monica B. in Internet on 09 28th, 2009 | no responses

According to a recent press release issued by Maxthon, its upcoming web browser proved to be faster than Google’s Chrome, beating it in four of seven tests performed by Download Squad. They tested the currently available Maxthon Max-3 alpha version against Google Chrome, using the V8 Benchmark Suite, and the first browser had an higher overall score than the other.

The V8 Benchmark Suite uses seven benchmarks called Richards – a OS kernel simulation benchmark, DeltaBlue – a one-way constraint solver, the Crypto encryption and decryption benchmark, the RayTrace, EarleyBoyer Classic Scheme benchmarks, RegExp regular expression benchmark, and Splay – the data manipulation benchmark.
To explain the speed difference, Lee Mathews said the upcoming Maxthon web browser adds a new rendering engine called WebKit, which is also used by Google Chrome and Apple’s Safari, to boost speed.
The browser is powered by two engines. In addition to the newly added WebKit, Maxthon Max-3 has been using the Trident engine, which even if it’s slower than WebKit it enables hundreds of thousands of pages to display right.
There is also a hybrid engine in Maxthon 3 that is in charge with automatic switching between Trident and WebKit, as it detects the type of web page retrieved by the web browser. For that it uses two modes – the Retro Mode based on Trident and the Ultra Mode based on Webkit.

Maxthon Max-3 will be released at the beginning of next year, delivering many innovative features.
The latest alpha release is Maxthon 3.0.4.8, which brings the new History Manager feature in addition to several fixes and the updated V8 JavaScript engine to 1.3.11 introduced by Maxthon 3.0.3.3 a few days ago.