Avant Force Blog Archive for May, 2010

The long awaited release of the next version of Avant Browser has arrived. Avant Browser 11.8 Alpha 2 is ready for testing. Please put it through its paces so we can find and fix all the bugs. Post on the forum anything that doesn’t quite work right.
Alpha 2 Changes:

• Creating new tabs action was tardy.
• The default zoom size was displayed as 0%
• New created pages didn’t follow the zoom size reset
• Being unable to type URL into the address bar if creating a new tab with CTRL + N
• Annoying ActiveX error often popped up when Disable ActiveX option checked
• Sometime Tab may bring itself to the front
• Being unable to edit proxy lists
• Tardy Auto-Complete response for the Address Bar
• Back / Forward buttons on Logitech Mouse didn’t work
• Open Picture in New Tab button didn’t work
• Variable tab width.(Tab Bar right-click menu->Tab Options->Fixed Tab Width added)

Initial changes from v11.7 in Alpha 1: New Features: Brand new back-end to help with stability and reliability in the operation of Avant.

• Multi-Process system: Avant will stay intact whether a tab crashes or not.
• Better CPU/Memory usage. Releases memory thoroughly to fix most leaks
• New Paste & go, Paste & submit, and Paste & Search, right click options for the Address bar
• Private Mode: When you open a private session no history, temp files, or cookies are saved during the session.
• Backup/Restore Profile interface: Allows you to backup and restore your profile. Your profile includes bookmarks and interface settings, such as the position of your buttons/toolbars, etc
• New Tab-Wrap button: As more tabs are opened you can either have them all on one row or click this button and it will start wrapping to more than one row of tabs.
• Rendering mode: You can now choose between IE7,IE8, and IE8 Forced mode without the IE version switcher
• Save Selected Region to Clipboard
• Ascend or descend sorting Quick search and URL Alias
• Clear Website icons
• Copy all URLs from a Bookmark folder
• New right click options: Block All images from the Same Server, Copy Picture Link, Open Picture in New Tab, Open in New Avant Browser[Private Mode]

Fixes:
• Being unable to start a new line to edit the script of an addon
• Only displaying favicons in site’s root directory
• Values are too short to read in View/Edit Autofill window when variables are too long
• Sometimes exported bookmarks are miscoded