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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: July 27, 2009
- Total Downloads: 24,787,356
- Downloads last week: 26,981
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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: Seth Rosenblatt on November 07, 2008
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 35 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
What's new in this version:
Fixed a typo problem.
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User reviews of Avant Browser 11.7 build 35
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 3006 votes
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.7 build 35
Pros: easy to use and very fast
Cons: I have not found anything that I dislike about the product yet.
Summary: Features are easy to use. The browsing history is very convenient.
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Version: Avant Browser 11.7 build 35
"It is good enough to beat IE7."
Pros: Built-in features are cool.
Cons: It is unreliable sometimes.
Summary: I would like to have bookmarks content-replicated from on-line storage to local machine.
Bookmarks are to be exported as a backup and imported it back in for the same version.
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Version: Avant Browser 11.7 build 35
"Good, but not very perfect yet!"
Pros: everything is good..... comprises of mozilla, IE and opera browser's features especially the auto refresh.
Cons: i duno why it suddenly became slow =S!
Summary:
oh ya and it is lacking of beautiful skins.
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.7 build 35
Pros: With Avant you don't have to clutter up your system with bookmarks. They can be saved virtually online for you. This is a TRUE tabbed browser unlike other which claim (such as IE and FIREFOX) to be. Page load time is vertually fast compared to IE.
Cons: At the moment there is a slight draw back to compatiblity and blocklist with IE add-ons/plug-ins and Adobe flash player ect. Also on rare occassions, a pop-up will get by. Otherwise a perfect Browser
Summary: If you're looking for a universal browser that is completely a full funtioning tab browser download. If you are looking for more security and privacy, this is it.Excellent load time and doesn't always keep asking if you want to download active x pr... read more >>
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.7 build 35
Pros: It does almost everything! I've used it ever since it came out until the past three or four months.
Cons: Since I started using TVersity, I've had to switch over to Firefox for a lot of things, so I'm mainly using this for my banking, etc.
Summary: I wish I could still use this as my main browser because it's just my favorite.
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