Avant Browser 11.6 build 20

• Popularity:

  #2 in Web Browsers (out of 367 products)

• Editor's Rating:

  4.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  4.0 stars (out of 2743 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  21,823,847

• Requirements:

  Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista

• Limitations:

  No limitations

• Date Added:

  June 17, 2008

• Previous Versions:

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Publisher's description of Avant Browser 11.6 build 20

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 11.6 build 20 fixes a bug of restoring main window from hidden.

Editor's review of Avant Browser 11.6 build 20

• 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.

User reviews of Avant Browser 11.6 build 20

• Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 2743 votes
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• 1 stars

  7 out of 8 people found this review helpful

  Version: Avant Browser 11.6 build 20

  "no longer works well"

  by JR. on July 10, 2008

  Pros: used to be great

  Cons: LOTS of bugs, slows down browsing and the mouse, freezes

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• 2 stars

  7 out of 8 people found this review helpful

  Version: Avant Browser 11.6 build 20

  "No..good"

  by rammstein101 on July 16, 2008

  Pros: It used to be fast and secure.Now it's slow and crashes too often.

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• 4 stars

  0 out of 5 people found this review helpful

  Version: Avant Browser 11.6 build 20

  "Great but there's better."

  by BrokenButterfly on August 2, 2008

  Pros: It loads pages pretty fast, installing and uninstalling is pretty easy.

  Size is also small.

  Cons: Its fast, but not as fast as the Flock browser which is also based on Firefox.

  The interface is also a bit "messy".

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• 1 stars

  6 out of 7 people found this review helpful

  Version: Avant Browser 11.6 build 20

  "Useless, waste of time"

  by rahmanroni on July 30, 2008

  Pros: none

  Cons: Waste of time, isnt as good as it used to be and you all know IE stinks. But id rather use IE then this. Firefox can beat this any day.

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• 1 stars

  6 out of 6 people found this review helpful

  Version: Avant Browser 11.6 build 20

  "Wouldn't open"

  by okwa on June 20, 2008

  Pros: nothing

  Cons: Seemed to download ok, but every time I tried to open it I got an error message and my computer froze up.

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