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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 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 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 2013 build 107 has moved sidebar, fixed drop down list of standard buttons, and Unicode URL problem.
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"never managed with this browser"
Version: Avant Browser 2013 build 107
Pros
Nice from any one who offers a free browser with all the efforts involved, but with that everything is said.
Thanks for the efforts!Cons
Never managed with this browser all over the years and every time removed it again after a short while.
will stay with Chrome and Firefox ,the only reasonable ones in my eyes.Summary
Not recommended but you may discover things I did not.
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"Great Broiwser - used and supported for years BUT!"
Version: Avant Browser 2013 build 107
Pros
Superb for all my browsing - far better than any other at least for me BUT
Cons
Latest version has moved bookmarks to right side - hate it ... really hate it, so have reinstalled previous version. Latest also changed all my settings, icon sizes and types and so forth. Really disappointed with these changes. Unless it changes back - will have to opt out of using this. Have used for many years but latest changes - especially losing settings and having to re-do them all, is a real PITA. The Bookmarks sidebar move to RH side is totally unacceptable for me. Not just a nuisance - I really mean unacceptable.
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Great browser but latest update is awful. Please change it back immediately, if not sooner.
Should mention I have made donations from time to time to support this.
Updated on Jun 6, 2013
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