Hello Linux Geeksters. Maxthon, a freeware internet browser working on Windows and Mac OS X comes to the Linux platform. The latest version available is Maxthon Cloud Browser 0.9.3.0, which has been recently released, being based on Chromium 33.
Since it has a lot of features, see information about it on the official site.
In this article I will show you how to install Maxthon Cloud Browser 0.9.3.0 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Elementary OS, Fedora, CentOS, Mageia, OpenSUSE and OpenMandriva.
It is not available via any third party repository, but we can download the deb/rpm packages and install them via dpkg/rpm. Follow the instructions for your system and architecture exactly, in order to get a successful installation.
How to install Maxthon Cloud Browser 0.9.3.0 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Elementary OS and their derivatives:
Instructions for 32 bit systems:
$ wget dl.maxthon.com/linux/deb/packages/i386/maxthon-browser-beta_0.9.3.0_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i maxthon-browser-beta_0.9.3.0_i386.deb
Instructions for 64 bit systems:
$ wget dl.maxthon.com/linux/deb/packages/amd64/maxthon-browser-beta_0.9.3.0_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i maxthon-browser-beta_0.9.3.0_amd64.deb
How to install Maxthon Cloud Browser 0.9.3.0 on Fedora, CentOS, Mageia, OpenSUSE, OpenMandriva and their derivates:
Instructions for 32 bit systems:
$ wget dl.maxthon.com/linux/rpm/i386/packages/maxthon-browser-beta-0.9.3.0-1.i386.rpm
$ sudo rpm -i maxthon-browser-beta-0.9.3.0-1.i386.rpm
Instructions for 64 bit systems:
$ wget dl.maxthon.com/linux/rpm/x86_64/packages/maxthon-browser-beta-0.9.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm
$ sudo rpm -i maxthon-browser-beta-0.9.3.0-1.x86_64.rpm