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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. When one tab fails, it won't freeze the browser or pull other pages down. Online Bookmarks: Access your Bookmarks with Avant Online Bookmarks Service from anywhere, office, home or an Internet cafe, and don't need to worry about losing those data when re-install windows.. The encrypted stand-alone bookmarks file format can protect your privacy on a shared computer. AutoFills: Forgot a web password? Avant Browser will memorize passwords for you. You can fill web forms with Auto-Filler by a single click. And you can protect all your web forms with one master password. Flash Animation Filter: Experiencing slow page loading with GPRS/3G connection? More than 85% of all flash animations on web pages are advertising, and normally take up to 90% of the size of the page you're visiting. With Avant Browser you can save the bandwidth by blocking the download of these flash files with just one easy click. AD/Pop-up Blocker: Easily eliminate unwanted AD banners and pop-up pages automatically with just one click. Mouse Gestures: If you click a link in the web page with the middle mouse button, the link will be opened in a new window in the background. This feature is extremely useful for opening posts in forums. Avant Browser also comes with customizable Mouse Gestures, with which you can easily navigate the browser by moving the mouse. Private Browsing: 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 2010.131 has fixed the blank space problem in some lenovo laptops.
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4.8 starsout of 14 votes
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"Best browser many years running"
Version: Avant Browser 2010.131
Pros
Online storage is awesome, mouse gestures can't live without, light, fast, actively developed, helpful forum and support, free
Cons
spreading the word is difficult, people are FF and CHR hypnotized.
Summary
Bottom live...this is the best browser available, I have been using it for 4 years running and have no plans to switch.
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"Fast, reliable, full-featured"
Version: Avant Browser 2010.131
Pros
Very fast, stable, lots of useful features.
Cons
Some of features not very intuitive; choice of skins not great.
Summary
A very good alternative Trident-based browser.
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"avant browser is very fit me"
Version: Avant Browser 2010.131
Pros
Fantastically quick!!!. What a brilliantly quick browser,looks very good too.Was dubious at first after trying all the bigger named browsers,but am surprised,not used IE8 since downloading Avant . Would highly reccomend anyone who finds IE8 too slow.
Cons
none none none
Summary
Fantastically quick!!!. What a brilliantly quick browser,looks very good too.Was dubious at first after trying all the bigger named browsers,but am surprised,not used IE8 since downloading Avant . Would highly reccomend anyone who finds IE8 too slow.
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"a very good browser with bing"
Version: Avant Browser 2010.131
Pros
it work well with bing and is fast too loveit
Cons
no problems with this program
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"i recommend avant browser"
Version: Avant Browser 2010.131
Pros
Very low memory usage, very easy to customize (such disable JavaScript, ActiveX, ...), being able to block ads and pop-ups.
Cons
nothing at all
Summary
Very low memory usage, very easy to customize (such disable JavaScript, ActiveX, ...), being able to block ads and pop-ups. I wonder why MS doesn`t do the same for us.
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"beautiful browser"
Version: Avant Browser 2010.131
Pros
Just update from 131 to 2011 beta 1,like the aero glass skin very much.it's more beautiful than other browser in win7.
Cons
don't like the detach tab
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"A star of browsers"
Version: Avant Browser 2010.131
Pros
If you have been using the other browsers based on IE,you will find AVANT is the Best for its fast speed and the stable functionality.
Cons
it just as familiar as a friend,so if it has some weak points,i will think it's normal.
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"good browser"
Version: Avant Browser 2010.131
Pros
good browser,so fast
Cons
I'm still testing
Summary
good browser,so fast.I also tried the 2011 alpha vesion,very cool the aero class.
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"best browser on earth, fast and reliable"
Version: Avant Browser 2010.131
Pros
fast, online storage, usb version, low cpu usage
Cons
more skins would be wonderful
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"Problems Solved"
Version: Avant Browser 2010.131
Pros
Master Password is great
Overall there is a feel of elegant simplicityCons
Donate to Avant Browser is rather confusing and intimidating.
Why am I shopping when I am trying to donate?Summary
I had a few problems in Internet Explorer so I tried Chrome which fixed those problems but introduced a few more. Then I tried Avant and was delighted to discover that it can do all the things I was having trouble with in IE or Chrome without introducing new problems
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