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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: April 03, 2008
- Total Downloads: 23,074,355
- Downloads last week: 7,639
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 3001 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 11.6 build 13 improves Vista Compabilities, and fixes bugs.
What's new in this version:
Verion 11.6 build 11 improves RSS feature and adds features to save web pages as pictures.
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User reviews of Avant Browser 11.6 build 13
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 3001 votes
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.6 build 13
"The Best Browser using IE engine"
Pros: To those who like IE,Avant is still the best alternative.In fact it is better than IE, faster and with a lot of innovative features.In this new vn. they added 'screen capture'feature (see under File) with a choice of fullscreen,selective etc.with jpg output.
Since it uses IE,Avant has some security issues similar to those of IE.This they can overcome if Avant can add Firefox(Gecko)engine also as an option to choose(as Netscape was once).
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Version: Avant Browser 11.6 build 13
Pros: Better than IE7
Cons: Wheres the security, this is just like Maxthon...
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.6 build 13
"This browser is much better than IE7"
Pros: Speed, no crashing, autofill
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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.6 build 13
Pros: Avant has always been light-years ahead of IE, and it has a lot of handy little features that I can't duplicate in Firefox. Some examples: tab management -- do you want a tooolbar search result to open in the current window, or a new window? Avant lets you choose. URL alias -- I can type "wik" in the address bar, and it opens Wikipedia. I can temporarily disable flash animations with a button on the toolbar. Lots more little features that I use constantly.
Cons: 1) Avant's ad blocking feature doesn't stop as many ads as Firefox's AdBlock Plus, which blocks practically everything.
2) I've never been able to get McAfee Site Advisor to work with Avant.
3) Avant can be snippy about executing some Java scripts. For example, to navigate Verizon's site to get prices for DSL service, I had to use IE.
Overall, though, the pros far outweigh the cons. This is still the best browser out there.
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Version: Avant Browser 11.6 build 13
Pros: It's simple and easy to use
Cons: Better skins
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