First Beta of Maxthon 5 Shows Browser Evolution to Personal Assistant

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Maxthon MX5 (5 Beta) available for download

   New Maxthon MX5

The first beta version of Maxthon 5 was officially launched, nicknamed MX5. This release shows Maxthon's commitment to following through with its evolution from a classic browser to a full personal assistant for all your online activities.

The change started with version 4, also called the Maxthon Cloud Browser, when it gained the ability to sync data in the cloud, a cloud-based file sharing systems, and a personal assistant for saving and syncing notes in the cloud.

MX5 follows on this path, and Maxthon International, the Chinese company behind this browser, is sticking to its plan of cramming as many features as possible inside its browser at a time when browsers like Firefox are striving to cut down all unnecessary features.

This is not necessarily a bad path since Vivaldi is doing the same thing, and many users seem to like its approach of crowding the browser with all sorts of features and controls.

MX5 gets a revamped bookmarking system

For its part, MX5 comes with three main features, called Infobox, Passkeeper, and UUMail.

The first, Infobox, is a rethinking of the old bookmarking system, which not only allows users to save a website's URL, but also its content in specially designed "cards."

Users can decide what and how much to save from each site, which can be quite in handy, if you're interested in a few paragraphs and two images, and don't want to search the entire page just for the two.

Infobox is also a full information center and it combines the note-taking and cloud storage features, which were introduced in version 4.

Maxthon 5 Beta also gets a password manager

The second major feature, called Passkeeper, is what you think it is, a password manager. Some might not like that Passkeeper stores its data in Maxthon's cloud, but the utility comes with the ability to generate strong random passwords to secure your accounts, and triple encryption and multi-channel security using the AES25 algorithm, used to secure the local password store and the password sync operations to the Maxthon's cloud.

The third feature, UUMail, is a virtual email inbox. Users can create multiple UUMail virtual mailboxes, and pass them around to your friends, work colleagues, and spam bots.

The user can redirect these virtual inboxes to real email addresses, depending on the content they expect to receive on each. Opinions on this feature are split since if you take the time to create four different email addresses to manage different types of emails, adding a virtual email inbox on top seems just like a waste of time.

Nevertheless, people end up using these features in all sorts of ways, and there are many other cool features that Maxthon brings to the table if you decide to use it as your default browser.

Maxthon 5 Beta is available for download from Maxthon's official website, or from Softpedia's download mirrors. Only Windows users are spoiled for now.

 

 New Maxthon MX5 Infobox feature

 

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