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In the latest news items I hade read a few days back it came to my that IE is loosing the battle
and Fx is winning.
Firefox continue to grow and also Opera seems to have grown.

Still IE is big and would it have been if Maxthon(or Avant) wasn't there?

Maxthon has a market share of 40% in china with of course is big and they are really making work of there new version 2.0 which is still in beta.
Maxthon has plans to take on the world and they may just get it too.
If they succeed bringing 2.0 to the world it may well be that it's another competitor against Fx.
Of course many people used Maxthon because it has tabs and IE not and now with IE7 that trick doesn't work anymore.

So what makes Maxthon that people going to use it.
Well let's see.
(using 2.0 preview beta looking from my point of view)

1. It's in the Frisian language
   
2. It looks nice
   
3. It has a great config part where you can make it your way
   
4. It has some great plug-ins
   
5. It has a capture feature(impresive)
   
6. It uses the IE engine so most websites work fine
   
7. It's fast and has a smart cache system
   
8. It makes browsing fun
   

There are most likely more stuff I didn't see.

Maxthon is something to look into if you don't like to use other engines than IE

With greetings Berend Ytsma