Chrome may be the faster bowser out there, but that is just because they didn't care to test Maxtho

Here are the speed tests and the results, I only cared about Chrome and Firefox because these two are fastest, if you need evidence for this please look at the many speed run tests online of the newest versions...


Here are the results in comparison to Maxthon:

Maxthon 3.3.7.2000:

Score: 2348

Richards: 2754
DeltaBlue: 3894
Crypto: 4404
RayTrace: 3496
EarleyBoyer: 4606
RegExp: 655
Splay: 790

Chrome 18.0.1025.162 m:

Score: 1685

Richards: 2578
DeltaBlue: 3005
Crypto: 3744
RayTrace: 2285
EarleyBoyer: 4954
RegExp: 682
Splay: 615
NavierStokes: 472

FireFox 11.0.1:

Score: 1545

Richards: 2779
DeltaBlue: 1968
Crypto: 4181
RayTrace: 785
EarleyBoyer: 1923
RegExp: 329
Splay: 884
NavierStokes: 3237

I did this test out of curiosity because I wanted to know if I was using the fastest bowser but now I'm switching to Maxthon of course. Some people treat Web Browsers like religions, though, unfortunately.

Interesting. Thanks, I'll check it out.

Too bad it's only PC...

On a Mac, Chrome is the way to go.

Wish Google would make an iOS based web browser so I don't have to use safari on my iPhone.

Also wish Google would put insane security features into the build, oh and stop collecting our data.

But seriously, Chrome for iOS would be awesome.

i used maxthon as my primary browser for years.

before firefox or any other tabbed browsers were around, maxthon (called MyIE then) had tabs and all sorts of awesome features, addons and skins.

apparently its huge in china, but just not very well known in the states.


its a really good browser for most things, only use firefox cause im used to it more now :/

So how did you go about testing Maxthon?

I didn't know about Maxthon

Going to give it a try, using Chrome and has done for years.

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I can't believe I've never heard of Maxthon, it looks really good actually. But I'm already a Firefox guy and I'll never turn back. The difference between Firefox and Chrome is negligible. Plus, I think most of the difference comes down the fact that Firefox has been in development for years longer than Chrome. Give it a few more years and Chrome will slowly reach the same speed as Firefox now. Just like a computer gets slower with time, browsers will do the same thing as they get more complex. Firefox also has countless extensions for everything imaginable and they make my life so much more damn easier. I literally have about 50 different add-ons installed which I use regularly. Firefox ftw.

So how are you coming to these 'scores'? It isn't the average of all the scores... All of the scores aren't consistent with the tests given. 'Maxthon' isn't even tested against "Navier-Stokes".. which implies Maxthon is not compatible with Unity or other web based physics engines. If it is tested for on Chrome and Firefox but not Maxthon then we aren't comparing apples-to-apples. What bench marking software are you using to test these browsers with?

I don't like synthetic tests for real world tasks, I prefer to test myself some of the sites I usually visit and see what browser is the fastest.

The last time I checked, Opera was the fastest, and it's also my favourite.

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That is based on faith rather than fact. They say "fastest browser" but that is not true. There are many test that prove otherwise.

Originally posted by arpgme
That is based on faith rather than fact.

What is based on faith?

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Saying that a bowser is faster and ignoring the actual evidence against it.

The newest Maxthon is about 13% faster than its older version and about 30% faster than the Newest Chrome:

New Speed results on Newer Version [May 12th, 2012]

Maxthon v3.3.8.1000 [Released: May 10th, 2012]

Score: 2427

Richards: 2976
DeltaBlue: 4185
Crypto: 4285
RayTrace: 3278
EarleyBoyer: 4437
RegExp: 674
Splay: 522
NavierStokes: 4417


Chrome 18.0.1025.168 m:

Score: 1667

Richards: 2744
DeltaBlue: 2731
Crypto: 3767
RayTrace: 2366
EarleyBoyer: 4955
RegExp: 656
Splay: 555
NavierStokes: 495


FireFox / PaleMoon 12.0:

Score: 1484

Richards: 2778
DeltaBlue: 2044
Crypto: 4191
RayTrace: 776
EarleyBoyer: 1904
RegExp: 314
Splay: 874
NavierStokes: 2447


Avant Browser 2012 build 169, April 8th, 2012:


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Others

Firefox 14 a2 (Aurora):

Score: 1156

Richards: 2739
DeltaBlue: 2023
Crypto: 4159
RayTrace: 688
EarleyBoyer: 1466
RegExp: 58.2
Splay: 767
NavierStokes: 3082


Maxthon v3.3.7.2000:

Score: 2115

Richards: 2835
DeltaBlue: 4198
Crypto: 3975
RayTrace: 2476
EarleyBoyer: 3005
RegExp: 566
Splay: 465
NavierStokes: 4311
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* PaleMoon 12.0 is faster than FireFox 14 a2 by 22.1%
* Maxthon v3.3.8.1000 is faster than Maxthon v3.3.7.2000 by 12.8%
* Avant's interface of Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox (fastest) was slower than Maxthon v3.3.8.1000
* Chrome Chrome 18.0.1025.168 m is slower than Maxthon v3.3.8.1000 by 31.3%

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What benchmark are you using? I don't get anything near those results.

I switched over to Chrome because I was told it was less vulnerable than IE8 to viruses. But Chrome is very poor on printing - even with its "IE" adaptor extensions. I tried to replace my virused IE8 in this way but it was a total SNAFU - first, uninstall IE8, then try to download a new IE8 via Chrome; never worked, never, and finally had to do a system restore to get IE8 back again and try running an IE upgrade via the IE8 (which was only partly gratifying).

Don't know how Maxton (or whatever) is on printing, or on resisting viruses. Maybe someone should include comments in evaluating the various browsers.

Well, I tried Maxthon 3.

It looks clean and fresh and all. But my FF renders ATS much faster, with "retro" style rendering only!

Maxthon v3.3.9.2000

Score: 2666

Richards: 2958
DeltaBlue: 4298
Crypto: 4426
RayTrace: 3700
EarleyBoyer: 5657
RegExp: 774
Splay: 627
NavierStokes: 4452

Just giving another update of currently the fastest web browser. I know that some people are just not "used" to this, or they are so familiar with FireFox or Chrome that they don't wanna switch. Just updating the test results of the newest version of Maxthon. It gets faster with New Release, and Maxthon is updated more often than Firefox or Chrome.

Originally posted by arpgme
I know that some people are just not "used" to this, or they are so familiar with FireFox or Chrome that they don't wanna switch.

My problem with it is that it isn't much faster than Opera and doesn't have all the features Opera has and that I use frequently.

It gets faster with New Release, and Maxthon is updated more often than Firefox or Chrome.

I get updates for Firefox (Beta versions) every week.

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I tested Oprah as well and it was a bit slower than Chrome (Much slower than Maxthon). What features does Oprah have that Maxthon does not?

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It's Opera, not Oprah.

I see that Maxthon, like most other browsers, has been copying things from Opera, but Opera still has some things that I use frequently and that Maxthon (from what I have seen) does not:

- a very good way of defining search engines that let's me have a list of several search engines that I can use just by choosing from the right-click menu, so I can search something on Google or on Wikipedia or TinEye very quickly.

- it shows the EXIF data of images.

- it has an easy way of opening a new tab from almost all places where you can follow a url.

- email client.

- torrent client.

- an easy to use content blocker.

- an easy to use page preferences manager, that let's us manage pop-ups, cookies, scripting, etc. for any page.


But I saw some things I like in Maxthon, so I am keeping it.

PS: this post was made with Maxthon v3.3.9.2000.