Microsoft has given us the choice of 12 browsers and I’ve started trialling them – giving each one a week – last week I’ve been using Maxthon.

Like many others I’ve trailed Maxthon looks pretty professional if a little busy with plenty of icons and menu options – however disappointment soon set in.

My first sticking point is you can’t have two browser windows- I have two screens and I use a separate browser window in each – not with Maxthon.

Then there’s Maxthon’s search box – getting any sensible use out of it is nigh on impossible it took me a fair while to get it to default to Google UK but then any search was lost and all I got was a blank Google homepage – 24 hours later I finally solved the problem.

Maxthon isn’t a browser for the faint hearted it’s particularly difficult to configure.

In day-to-day use Maxthon failed to work correctly with iGoogle – passwords a particular difficulty, using WordPress was awkward and forget adding pictures to blog posts, then there’s Google reader which would crash with out of memory errors – I could go on – but I won’t.

All-in-all another browser I’m happy to see the back of – this week it’s Firefox and I’ll have to be honest this is my browser of choice – so I’m expecting a very happy week.