Maxthon, a China-based freeware web browser for Windows, has taken a 22% market share of the Chinese browser market and has been downloaded by 275 million people, according to data from Net Applications. This places Maxthon ahead of Firefox and is 2nd only after Internet Explorer in the Chinese market.
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According to Jeff Chen, one of the developers of Maxthon, the new version Maxthon 3 will use be a dual core browser using both the Trident and WebKit layout engines.
It was reported that Google had invested at least US$1 million in Maxthon, but this was denied the following day by Chen.
