Clownstyle Posted August 13, 2004 Share Posted August 13, 2004 Even if you save Avant for the times you can't use Firefox, it's still worth having as an extension to IE. Just get it customised to the way you want and you'll be sorted.<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Good call !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted October 26, 2004 Author Share Posted October 26, 2004 A new version of Avant is out. It's only just over a meg to download and has a couple of extra features: - 1. When you point the mouse pointer at a picture, a new floating bar pops up. You have the usual options to save etc. but now you can also click a little + or - and zoom in or out. Pretty useful but it can be turned off if you don't like it. 2. When you highlight a block of text on a webpage you get a new floating bar. You can copy the text to the clipboard, search the web for the highlighted text with any search engine you choose and also search the site/page for more instances of the words you highlighted. Again, this is pretty useful and can also be turned off. 3. You now have the option to have a small info box appear when a popup page/ad is blocked, showing you the full path of the URL. I don't really see much use for this so I switched it off. 4. When you close Avant and restart it, a box pops up with a list of all the pages you had open. You can choose to open them all again, or select them individually if you want. Again, you can turn this off if you like. 5. There's a new XML Feeds button for reading blogs and shit. It's no use to me though so I removed it. All in all, a pretty good update. All the minor bugs seem to have been ironed out and every new version seems to be more compact, but with more features. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted July 24, 2005 Author Share Posted July 24, 2005 New version of Avant released: - Improved Speed/Stability. Improved Flash Blocker. Improved Drag-and-Drop. Improved History Support. Improved scroll support. Fixed the bug of clear web forms. Allow multiple instances. Customizable mouse gestures. Customizable mouse buttons functions. Customizable tab to activate after closing a tab. More customizable standard buttons. Drop down button for history button, display last 120 visited web pages. New compact view. New: "hold the right button and click with the middle button" to close/refresh a window. New: Open In New Browser Item in the right click menu for links and bitmap. New: Getting Start Wizard dialog New Copy URL button on the float bar. New Open in New Window button on the float bar. New Favorite Context Menu Item: Create Favorite in This Folder. Maintain Width/Height ratio when zoom pictures. Added Context Menu to group links Added Context Menu to Back/Forward drop-down menu Accept to drop a list of URLs, and open them one by one. Save options in "Open a Link" dialog. http://www.qwerks.com/download/5337/absetup.exe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted July 24, 2005 Author Share Posted July 24, 2005 The new features in this version are wicked. The customisable mouse gestures is a great idea: - You can fully customise the mouse buttons too: - There's also a new toolbar button (that you can remove of course) that shows you the last 25 pages you closed, so you can re-open any of them quickly. It's kind of like a cut down version of history with faster access. You can also customise the tabs in loads of different ways now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted August 14, 2005 Author Share Posted August 14, 2005 Avant Browser 10.1 Build 22, Released: 08.12.2005 Improved Speed. Faster GUI drawing. Improved History Drop Down Menu. Improved Compact Style. 12 New Themes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted August 14, 2005 Author Share Posted August 14, 2005 Something I forgot to mention that I like in Avant is the full screen view. This hides the top and bottom bars (including the taskbar) until you point your mouse in that area of the screen, then they reappear. Sites look like this: - Pretty cool I reckon. You can also view 2 or more sites like this, which is useful if you're comparing or copying and pasting something: - View 1: - View 2: - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted August 28, 2005 Author Share Posted August 28, 2005 Another new version: - http://dl.filekicker.com/send/file/145999-6E45/ab-setup.exe 1.4MB. That's the download without the RoboForm plugin. There's no change log as yet, so I dunno what's been changed. I've installed it and it works fine. Each time you upgrade Avant, you should uninstall the current version, reboot, then install the new one. Any customisations you've made will be saved so the upgrade is painless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted September 17, 2005 Author Share Posted September 17, 2005 Avant Browser 10.1 Build 26, Released: 09.12.2005 Improved Skins Display. Improved Full-Desktop and Compact Style. Improved Similar Websites bar. http://dl.filekicker.com/send/file/145999-6E45/ab-setup.exe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted October 2, 2005 Author Share Posted October 2, 2005 Avant Browser 10.1 Build 28, Released: 09.29.2005 Improved memory usage, fixed some memory leaks. Improved AD blocker. Improved popup blocker for catching showModelessDialog and showModalDialog. http://dl.filekicker.com/send/file/145999-6E45/ab-setup.exe 1.4MB (Version without the RoboForm plug-in). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Posted October 2, 2005 Share Posted October 2, 2005 oh man i can't even tell you how much i hate that browser. Dunno why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted October 2, 2005 Author Share Posted October 2, 2005 Probably because you ain't configured it to how you like it. Most people hate it when they first look at it, but you can customise literally everything about it. It's light on resources too: - If I had 64 tabs open in Firefox my PC would have had a heart attack and died. With Avant it runs the same as if I only had a single page open. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 what platform does it run on...opera? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted October 3, 2005 Author Share Posted October 3, 2005 No, it runs on Internet Explorer (5.5, 6 or 7). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 hmmm...eww Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted October 3, 2005 Author Share Posted October 3, 2005 I've never had to use another browser cos the page doesn't work or display correctly. It's only the Firefox/Opera users that seem to have a problem with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 Firefox is a MUCH more forgiving browser. Cross compatibility sucks. My new site looks beautiful in firefox but half of it doesn't even work in IE. There is so much design stuff that you can do in Firefox that IE just refuses to recognize. And some of it on purpose. Even though Microsoft knows people want to use it, they're refusing to incorporate some stuff into IE 7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted October 3, 2005 Author Share Posted October 3, 2005 Firefox & Opera adhere strictly to a web standard, but quite often the people who write websites don't. That's why Opera has it's "Quirk's Mode". It depends if you want to make a site that's viewable by 88% of users or 8%. A well written site looks the same in all browsers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 nah....mozilla has it's own set of css tags on top of standard html. Anything that IE can see, mozilla can see plus some. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted October 3, 2005 Author Share Posted October 3, 2005 mozilla has it's own set of css tagsThat's no good when 88% of users are browsing with IE. Besides that, I don't think what you said in that quote is true anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 with all the right plugins installed, there is nothing that IE can read that Firefox can't. There are ways to make the mozilla tags work in IE, anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted October 3, 2005 Author Share Posted October 3, 2005 Yes, but you should be designing a site based on how it's rendered in IE while also making sure it works in other browsers, not the other way round. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 I design my sites in firefox and then cross check and make the necessary changes. I defy you to find a site that works in ie but not ff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted October 3, 2005 Author Share Posted October 3, 2005 OK: - http://windowsupdate.microsoft.comhttp://www.fema.gov/register.shtmhttp://www.pestscan.comhttp://www.forbes.com/premium/archives/download.shtmlhttp://www.powerhouse.co.uk There's tons of them actually. The pages may display, but some or all of the functions may not work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 anyone who wants to register with FEMA should be banned. Not Work Safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted October 3, 2005 Author Share Posted October 3, 2005 There's a big list of sites here: - http://www.computergripes.com/firefoxsites.html At the top of the page it says: - The next release of Firefox will have a feature to report web sites that don't work well directly to Mozilla. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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