A browser that combines some of the features found  in Opera and Firefox. In fact, in many ways it has  1 superior feature that both browsers don't have by  default which is in full screen you can have the o ption of having a toolbar pop up and auto-hide itself once your mouse pointer is no longer lo cated there. In Firefox you need an extension and i t's only recent and in Opera, the best option you h ave as far as I know is to set a keyboard shortcut  to show a toolbar. The toolbars very basic though a nd certainly does not replace Opera's ability to ad d commands via the right click context menu which i s more suitable for full screen. I disagree with th e previous reviewer that this and Maxthon are the s ame. Maxthon has 1 additional major feature which i s being able to highlight a word, drag it and it wi ll search for the word in a new tab.

It's fast, secure, simple to use, and has an aesthetically clean and beautiful interface. Best of all it features online storage to store all my bookmarks. So whether I'm on my laptop or my desktop I always have access to the same bookmarks.

Mozilla Firefox is very overrated. Avant's latest version has all of the features of the top browsers and more. It's fast, reliable, and best of all it's based on IE which makes it more compatible with websites.

If you've seen one IE based browser, you've seen them all. Avant seemed no better than Slim Browser or Maxthon (MyIE2).

Excellent browser. Avant Browser 9.02 B101 is under my testing. It is great browser that really helps and speed up browsing. Quick searches is an excellent feature which I have come to use a lot. The interface is very customizeable. However, the pop-up blocker could use some work. It is powerless against floating banners. It has the compatibility of Internet Explorer and it's security. It has easy accessibility to web media extensions such as Flash, scripts, applets, activex, etc, for a faster or safer web browsing. I think it has the best tabbed window system of them all. Very configurable are the tab behavior unlike Firefox which is very limited. It is a very small download, about 1MB. I think the user who gave it this highly functional browser a mere 2 out of 5 stars is biased. Avant Browser has a lot of features. Maybe because it starts with Internet Explorer? My I disclose the myth that browsers like Firefox are more secure. They are not proven to be so. You can make Internet Explorer just as secure as Firefox. People take the misconception that whatever gets hacked more is poorly-programmed. Not neccessarily true. Simple fact is Windows is popular, so is Internet Explorer. The famous get stalked more. Browsers like Firefox are very unpopular according to a statistic. Frankly the simple act of changing or switching a program only gives you some security. Like just changing a software firewall. One may have a exploited security flaw, the other doesn't. Most people percieve that Linux is more secure than Windows, or Mac OSX to be more secure than Windows. Think about it. The conincidental thing, is that both Linux, and MacOSX are not widely used. Think about it. The same goes for Internet Explorer, and Mozilla browsers. One is widely used, the other barely being used. There is no such thing as secure software.

Avant's only thing going for it is the popup blocker, which shows how many popups have been blocked. Avant is based off the Internet Explorer code, which means it has all of its susceptions, and with the exception of the tabbed browsing, its crappiness. I recomment Firefox over Avant.