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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.
Avant Browser:Publisher's Description
From Avant Force:
Avant Browser's user-friendly interface brings a new level of clarity and efficiency to your browsing experience, and frequent upgrades have steadily improved its reliability. Multi-Processing: Multi-Processing design offers you a crash-free, lock-up-free, memory-leak-free internet browsing experience and high reliability. Its Multi-Processing design offers you a crash-free internet browsing experience and high reliability. When one tab fails, it won't freeze the browser or pull other pages down, Designed to set in a Private Mode, Avant Browser does not keep web data in your computer. So anybody else sharing the same computer with you will not be able to see which sites and which pages you have visited and which files you have displayed during your private web browsing section.
What's new in this version: Version 2010.128 has fixed blank bar appeared when you switch to and out of the full screen/desktop mode.
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All versions:
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4.6 starsout of 7 votes
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"Nice browser with few flaws"
Version: Avant Browser 2010.128
Pros
It has nice faetures that IE lacks. Blocked ads which were a nuisance.
Cons
On several occassions web pages would load with text scrambled requiring for to close and re-launch.
Summary
I liked the browser, but the loading problem, although not frequent, was enough to get me back to my other browsers including IE.
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"much simplified form design"
Version: Avant Browser 2010.128
Pros
allow more viewing estate
Handle hardcore Java scripts efficiently
as per advertised, screaming fast plus smooth browsing
as basic as user wanted it to be without sacrifice anything.Cons
Feeling of using the same Microsoft IE architect with some face-lift.
Summary
Very happy with it and can see this browser will shoulder to shoulder compete with Firefox and chrome and knock Opera, Safari and IE to the dust.
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"the best browser ~"
Version: Avant Browser 2010.128
Pros
Hi, I suggest you transfer to Avant Brower 2010 build 128. Much more stable, easier to use, never crash and release memory completely.
Cons
nothing at all
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"Best All Around Browser"
Version: Avant Browser 2010.128
Pros
Easy to use, very handy, just a very good, safe Browser and plenty fast.
Cons
I didn't like it when they did away with the copy and paste,or rather the Edit tab, but I fixed that.
Summary
The best all-around Browser out there. When I use it exclusively my anti-spyware finds very little if anything but when I use Mozilla or IE there is a long list to remove. I believe it is very secure and has many good features and is fast enough. I have completly removed Firefox from all my computers but I still use IE and Chrome now and then.
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"cute browser"
Version: Avant Browser 2010.128
Pros
Whatever in my laptop with xp/ie6 or my desktop with win7/ie8, the latest release rarely crashes even I keep my system and browser running for 3+ days due to working requirement. I choose it instead of Chrome due to its stability and compatibility.
Cons
not much to say
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"A user friendly version of internet explorer"
Version: Avant Browser 2010.128
Pros
Linking, tabs, etc. are easy to use.
Cons
Spellcheck better in Orca. Minor bugs take long to fix
Summary
A very good alternative to IE.
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"good browser with excellent work"
Version: Avant Browser 2010.128
Pros
All the bugs I had reported in the forum have been fixed,good work,no any other problem now.
Cons
all the bugs had been fixed ,so no cons now
Summary
Responsble.
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