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License:
Free
- Editor's Rating:
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Downloads:
22,670,867
- Requirements:
Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
November 07, 2008
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Publisher's description of Avant Browser
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.
Version 11.7 build 18 improves address bar auto-suggestion.
Editor's review of Avant Browser
4.0 stars
- "Avant remixes IE for the better"
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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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 2799 votes
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.7 build 18
"Permanently getting worse, no positive conservativity"
Pros: Bare functionality
Cons: Bare functionality
Summary: I have used so far Advanced Browser, sized 1 Mb only, but these days I have gotten a script that caused immeediately a system fault, a serious system error, and so I have decided to turn to Avant, as it resembles generally Advanced Browser by its de... read more >>
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.7 build 18
"The best browser I've tried!"
Pros: I prefer the blocker function in Avant. Now I can enable/disable features like video, music, flash, script... with just 1-click in Menu Tool. That's so comfortable. Setting & switching proxy are also easier.
Cons: FIND function is still dusty.
Summary: It's worth trying.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.7 build 18
Pros: at man kan lukke den uden at lukke den
Cons: at den ik kan samarbejde med winamp toobbar
Summary: I am danis så i can ont reit very good englis sorry me
Avant ar the best browser -
0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.7 build 18
"Easy to use, regular updates but crashes a lot"
Pros: Avant is great to use. I keep coming back to it after Firefox, Opera etc, probably because I'm used to it. It's certainly pretty quick at loading pages and updates occur regularly to overcome most faults.
Cons: When one page crashes, you lose all other pages too. You can generally recover the pages you were on as it remembers them, but it's very annoying to happen so often. This has been a problem for the last five years i've used it.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Avant Browser 11.7 build 18
"Excellent user friendly browser"
Pros: I like the multi tab option for having multiple windows open within the window rather than the toolbar and it's a very easy to use browser. The option to save pages when you close the program is a handy feature too.
Cons: It can be a bit unstable at times and sometimes maxes out the computer memory causing everything to grind to a halt.
Summary: I've been using this browser for several years after a friend recommended it to me. I have tried others like Firefox but find this one much easier to use. The regular updates are handy too as they keep it bang up to date. I find the various featu... read more >>
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