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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows Server 2008, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: November 26, 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 3006 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 11.7 build 18 improves address bar auto-suggestion.
What's new in this version:
Version 11.7 is a bug fixing release.
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User reviews of Avant Browser 11.7 build 18
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 3006 votes
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.7 build 18
"Permanently getting worse, no positive conservativity"
Pros: Bare functionality
Cons: Bare functionality
Summary: I have used so far Advanced Browser, sized 1 Mb only, but these days I have gotten a script that caused immeediately a system fault, a serious system error, and so I have decided to turn to Avant, as it resembles generally Advanced Browser by its de... read more >>
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.7 build 18
"An ok Browser without to many possibillities"
Pros: Easy to deal with-fast With`in reason. ,Use all your adresses from Your IE explorer.
Cons: Just a bit boring to look at- Maybe to much like IE (I use it primerly because I cant upgrade my IE)
Summary: Over all a good and easy going browser.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.7 build 18
"Good Overall, but still lacks original problem; ."
Pros: It is much faster than older version (10.2). It also organizes things a bit better.
Cons: I was hoping it would not only get faster, but use less CPU usage. Unfornately, iit didn't at all.
Summary: Refer to Con
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3 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.7 build 18
Pros: I can get to the internet
Cons: I gain nothing with this software.
Summary: go with firefox and keep from going to sleep due to staring at Avant browser page.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.7 build 18
Pros: I like the way it blocks unwanted adds and urls. I never get adware and all that junk unless I have to use Firefox or IE for some reason.
Cons: Nothing to speak of. I donate a little to them.
Summary: I never use anything else except when I have to get MS updates. It is very light and gets the job done.
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