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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: June 06, 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 16 adds the ability to run javascript directly in the address bar.
What's new in this version:
Version 11.6 build 16 adds the ability to run javascript directly in the address bar.
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User reviews of Avant Browser 11.6 build 16
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 3001 votes
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Version: Avant Browser 11.6 build 16
Pros: full screen capability; automatic log in from list
Cons: The default search engine: poor record with strange findings. I prefer Google a lot.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.6 build 16
Pros: The most convenient and stable (as much as IE can) browser I ever used. Also, it is free and very tiny to download.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.6 build 16
"Greattttttttttttttttttt, Amazing"
Pros: It is a very very wonderful, amazing, i think that not any software work equal AVANT. and i also think that May be other who create tag euqal avant, before this option try to change they've seen AVANT browser.
Thanking your avant browser
Cons: When we've open some websites approx 20, then some problem found, i open some website (Fanbox.com, Zoparia.com, etc.), they've some more time to option pages. then other website also hang. means other already opened pages also hang with Fanbox/Zoparia Pages. Please Try to Solve My Problem.
My English is poor, so please don't mind
Thanking you
Abhisak Jain.
Mob : 00919215391999
mail at : abhiindia_jain@yahoo.com
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.6 build 16
"much better than any other browser at this time, even better than mozilla."
Pros: its looks are very good.it has a system called the autofill system, which saves my hours of work daily.i recommend everyone to use this browser.Take me for granted.
Cons: there are certain plu-ins which do not work properly in avant like the mc-afee site adviser
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.6 build 16
Pros: every thing, is the best of all
Cons: all is okey in that
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