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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. Its 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. It can 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. 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.
What's new in this version: Version 2012 build 179 has improved performance of Memory Management.
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3.7 starsout of 3 votes
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"Big improvment in Memory usage"
Version: Avant Browser 2012 build 179
Pros
Have updated to the 179 several days, the Memory usage has big improvement.About 100 M less than before, I always open more than 30 tabs, and in the past,the Memory always went to 400+ M while now, it's about 300M(I'm using firefox engine).
Cons
Didn't fix any big bugs in the new version
Summary
Overall, Avant is the browser use lesast Memory from my experience.Fast enough but still need improvement in stability. But, as we all known, the longer you use a browser, the more problems you will get. I didn't expect more. Even chrome crashes more than 10 times per day.
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"Highly Recommended for the Average User!"
Version: Avant Browser 2012 build 179
Pros
With the friendly interface, Chrome and Firefox rendering engines in addition to IE, auto-AD and Pop-Up Blocker, low CPU usage, no Memory leak unlike Mozilla Firefox, and even more features that are out of this world! You have got to try out this browser!
Cons
In any version of Avant Browser I have used, it takes multiple clicks to close down a tab. I had to use the "ctrl+w" keyboard command to ensure closing the tab I want and not the tab next to it. Also, in Avant Browser 2012 build 175, Avant Browser also stopped functioning quickly, and instead, showed up many error messages, Chrome, IE, or Firefox rendering engines.
Summary
Overall, I think this browser is amazing if you don't really care about the multiple-clicks-to-close-down-a-tab bug. So far, Avant Browser is doing a great job! Keep it up and Avant Browser might be more popular than the "very popular" browsers like IE, Firefox, and Chrome!
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"Crashes my computer without even being open"
Version: Avant Browser 2012 build 179
Pros
Easy to uninstall
Cons
Manages somehow to suck up a gig and a half of memory and used over 90% of the CPU while it is not even open.
Summary
I installed this about a month ago to try out and basically forgot it was on my computer. During the last week I have had a couple of times when I have been trying to work and my computer has just completely frozen up. Even task manager wouldn't work. On one of these occasions I luckily had time to look in system processes before the paralysis set in. I found some addon which a google search told me was from Avant that was eating all the computer's power. I didn't even have a clue who it was because I hadn't used the browser for a month.
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