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Title: have you tried avant browser?
Post by: rchadd on October 08, 2004, 02:40:34 pm

great improvement on internet explorer:

http://www.download.com/Avant-Browser/3000-2356-10305975.html?tag=lst-0-1

Title: Re:have you tried avant browser?
Post by: Hoagie_one on October 08, 2004, 03:20:30 pm

i use it at home...pretty nice.

love tabbed browsers

Title: Re:have you tried avant browser?
Post by: rchadd on October 08, 2004, 03:41:19 pm

built in popup blocker is nice feature

performance seems good also

Title: Re:have you tried avant browser?
Post by: Floyd10 on October 08, 2004, 03:41:26 pm

Well, My gpa has it, and I dont really care for it. I used to like opera, before they ruined it.
Now I use Firefox.

Title: Re:have you tried avant browser?
Post by: Sephroth57 on October 08, 2004, 03:59:42 pm

im all about avant browswer and after showing my friends they all use it too  8)

Title: Re:have you tried avant browser?
Post by: clanggedin on October 08, 2004, 05:17:50 pm

I use it here at my office and at home. I need to try FireFox though.

Title: Re:have you tried avant browser?
Post by: DrewKaree on October 09, 2004, 12:53:10 am

To quote Maximum PC

"The reason we prefer Mozilla Firefox and Opera to the Avant and MyIE2 browsers is precisely because of Internet Explorer's inherent insecurity, which unfortunately affects the browser's offshoots. (tabbed browsing and nifty extensions are just icing on the Firefox and Opera cakes.)  With Firefox or Opera, you don't have to worry that you might render your system useless by accidentally installing a malicious ActiveX while innocently browsing the net.  MyIE2 and Avant don't afford the same protection."

After having to fix 4 computers in the past month, I installed Firefox on each, changed the icon to IE's, renamed the icon "Internet Explorer", changed the home page to their old home page, and left them to their browsing.  No problems, and everyone loves the "improvements" in the "newer version" of Internet Explorer that I installed for them.

I'll be sticking to Firefox, now that I know Avant is just an IE add-on.  

Title: Re:have you tried avant browser?
Post by: Sephroth57 on October 09, 2004, 09:31:04 am

eh well i dont really need built in protections, im a pretty smart web browswer and i know when something doesnt look right or what not to download. ive never had a problem