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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: June 17, 2008
- Total Downloads: 23,475,181
- Downloads last week: 106,343
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 3031 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 20 fixes a bug of restoring main window from hidden.
What's new in this version:
Version 11.6 build 19 fixed the bug that Avant can't restore the original window size from the minimized status when you open up a link out of it; moved the urls.dat file to the folder where USB version is installed.
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User reviews of Avant Browser 11.6 build 20
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 3031 votes
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8 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.6 build 20
Pros: used to be great
Cons: LOTS of bugs, slows down browsing and the mouse, freezes
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8 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.6 build 20
Pros: It used to be fast and secure.Now it's slow and crashes too often.
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0 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.6 build 20
Pros: It loads pages pretty fast, installing and uninstalling is pretty easy.
Size is also small.
Cons: Its fast, but not as fast as the Flock browser which is also based on Firefox.
The interface is also a bit "messy".
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6 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.6 build 20
Pros: none
Cons: Waste of time, isnt as good as it used to be and you all know IE stinks. But id rather use IE then this. Firefox can beat this any day.
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.6 build 20
Pros: nothing
Cons: Seemed to download ok, but every time I tried to open it I got an error message and my computer froze up.
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