In 2002, current CEO Ming Jie 'Jeff' Chen ( Chinese: 陈明杰 pinyin: Chén Míngjié) created MyIE2 browser based on open source product MyIE., in Singapore, and renamed to 'Maxthon' in 2003. Maxthon has also created other products including a Chinese language news and information portal i.maxthon.cn, a Chinese language casual gaming portal and humor website, a ‘ Kid Safe’ web browser for Android and iOS, a free online account system named Maxthon Passport, and an English language news and information web portal i. Most of Maxthon's engineers are based in the corporate headquarters in China, which develops and maintains versions of the Maxthon browser for Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. It is headquartered in Singapore, with offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, and San Francisco, US. Maxthon is a Hong Kong company known mainly for producing web browsers for Windows.

Since version 6, Maxthon is based on Chromium.

It is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and as Maxthon Mobile for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone 8.

Maxthon ( Chinese: 傲游浏览器, formerly named MyIE2) is a freeware web browser, created by JeffChen in Singapore. Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, Windows Phone, iOS

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