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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: August 12, 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.
What's new in this version:
Version 11.7 build 36 is a bug fixing release.
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User reviews of Avant Browser 11.7 build 36
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 3006 votes
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.7 build 36
""Firefox" is for pros and "Avant" is for jerks."
Pros: Looks pretty in green--only.
Cons: Cannot multitask well. Slow, slow, slooooooooooow.
Summary: Try "The World Browser" instead.
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.7 build 36
Pros: fast browser
Cons: no password saver
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.7 build 36
Pros: I like its speed of loading and responding
Cons: could use more color
Summary: I have used this browser for a few years and its only gotten better.Speed is the main thing I like and you can count on this browser to get the job down. The one thing I feel it needs is more color in the skins.
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.7 build 36
"I Love It for a long looong time"
Pros: 1) Great features
2) Good support
3) Support to add must IE plug-ins (Must important of them, Google Toolbar)
4) Small size
5) Fast Browsing, Must of the times better than IE!
6) Fast execute time and less memory eating!!Cons: After some new version upgrades, we saw some bugs or problems in some old features which they had not those bugs before!!! But like I said, Coz of Great Supporting of this software, Make those problems solve very soon.....
Summary: If you are an IE user, you should use Avant instead of IE. cuz more features, faster executing, some times faster browsing!! and more important thing! Avant use less memory than IE.
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.7 build 36
"nice and clean. More space for webpage"
Pros: nice, clean
Cons: sometimes (rare) it forceclose.
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