Yes, Maxthon browser is a good alternatif of IE. It built based on the IE core, with a multi-tabbed browser. Which mean that it can open multiple web-pages within one browser window, and uses little system resources.

Official wesbite : www.maxthon.com

Based on its offical website, Maxthon works the way you want it to :

• swap, add,move, remove and change Maxthon's tool bars, icons, menus, colors, skins, and layouts until it looks the way you would have designed it.
• Don't like menus ? Use hot keys. Don't like hot keys ? Use word aliases. Don't like aliases ? Use toolbars. Don't like toolbars ? Then use mouse gestures. It's all up to you
• Think we left something out ? Pick form more than 1,400 plug-ins that make Maxthon the do-all browsers
• Other companies sell remote conferencing, screen capture, electronic passports, and automatic password managers as separate program. With Max, they're free - just like Maxthon itself.

Maxthon is so secure, you can throw away the blanket.

• Maxthon is 100 % free of viruses, spyware, adware - any kind of malware.
• The built-in Ad Hunter blocks harmful, or just irritating ads, images and pages
• Filter packs screen out offensive and irritating Web pages, and you decide what's offensive and irritating.

CNET Download.com said that Maxthon comes with all the great features which will give you a comfortable, joyful and personal Web surfing experience. It has unique features, such as Advanced ADs blocker, support popup blocker and Web content filter and lots more features to improve your surfing experience.

Download.com ranked Maxthon in No. 3 of the Most Popular Web Browser downloads after Mozilla Firefox and Avant Browser.

Read the complete overview of this software in here : Maxthon Browser Overview