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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: October 08, 2007
- Total Downloads: 23,074,355
- Downloads last week: 7,639
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 3002 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
For those who like their customization in-house, the Avant Browser's latest update might appeal to you. Built on an IE-rendering engine, Avant takes off in a different direction--IE if it were being produced by a small firm instead of Microsoft.
The browser is sufficiently fast, preloaded with two dozen similar skins as well as tabbed browsing and modular toolbars that let you move around and hide the Status bar, Toolbar, Search window, and navigation controls. The Menu bar, though, is counterintuitively pinned to the upper-right corner, and icons for proprietary functions, such as an in-page search term highlighting toggle, aren't instantly comprehensible.
Avant can save personalized data online, making bookmarks and form content accessible from any machine. Around the same size as Firefox, Avant includes many features that are available to Firefox users only through plug-ins--such as automatic form fillers. The Full Screen view autohides all menu bars, a nice touch, but certain plug-ins--notably Flash--didn't work on Windows Vista.
Avant is a good browser with some nice built-in features and interface-customization options, but the lack of extensibility and Vista problems don't help. We recommend it to users who want a Microsoft-based engine but think that Internet Explorer 7 is a pain.
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Publisher's description
From Avant Force :Avant Browser allows users to browse multiple Web sites simultaneously and to block all unwanted pop-up pages and Flash ads automatically. The integrated cleaner helps users clear all traces and maintain privacy. The built-in Yahoo and Google search engines enable users to search for Web pages, images, groups, directories, lyrics, software, and news on the Internet. Avant Browser provides options for blocking the download of Flash media, pictures, video, sounds, and ActiveX components, so users can efficiently use their bandwidth and speed up page loading. All opened pages can be stopped, refreshed, closed, or arranged with one click. It also comes with built-in RSS reader. Its similar Web sites bar displays Web sites, which are related to the opened Web pages.
Version 11.5 build 21 fixes the coding error while importing bookmarks from Firefox; fixes the menu display bug under Compact Style.
What's new in this version:
Version 11.5 build 21 fixes the coding error while importing bookmarks from Firefox; fixes the menu display bug under Compact Style.
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User reviews of Avant Browser 11.5 build 21
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 3002 votes
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3 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.5 build 21
Pros: The best thing about it is that it helps IE get better. Although this browser loads very fast, small, and efficient, it doesn't have that "feel" of a regular browser. It is also free.
Cons: I thought Avant Browser was a bit of a downfall when I noticed the menu were a bit complicated (on the top right). A minor issue to me was that the default interface looks a bit too much.
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.5 build 21
Pros: Cool, Fast, better display, Bigger display, No clutter, Straight forward, NO computability problems, Flexible, A+
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.5 build 21
"TheBestBrowser using IE engine"
Pros: Avant is the best & reliable browser using IE engine.It is even better than IE, with regard to speed,scrolling,security,opening of windows and consistency.It has a number of skins to choose as you like.With regard to speed it matches with Opera.
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6 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.5 build 21
Pros: Avant is a little confusing at first, but once you play around with it for a few moments, you can see how much there is to customize and do with it.
At first the look is a little weird, but you can change that back to a more traditional browsing look.
The pop-up and ad-blockers work very well once enabled.
The RSS reader in it is nicer than the ones in Firefox and Opera.
Cons: Does not finish urls. For instance, if you type in download, it will add in the hyper protocall + download and that won't work, so it will search and then there is an error message.
It's awkward to add urls into the links toolbar.
Also, the themes for it are boring and weird looking.
Not faster enough to make me switch from Opera.
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Version: Avant Browser 11.5 build 21
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