Avant Force Blog Archive for June, 2010

• [Fix]Keep forgetting login status
• [Fix]Improved Private Mode
• [Fix]Sometime being unable to close tabs with ctrl + w
• [Fix]Sometime being unable to refresh pages by pressing F5
• [Fix]Keep opening a link in background instead of foreground as configured
• [Fix]FavIcons Sync bugs

• [Fix]Being unable to connect to Internet via a proxy with password
• [Fix]Being unable to log into Online Storage behind a proxy
• [Fix]Being unable to exit from full video screen with Esc key
• [Fix]Black blank appeared while switching between restore and maximize window actions
• [Fix]Saving downloaded files to default directory didn’t work on Windows 7
• [Fix]Roboform toolbar disappeared in new created tab if the opened link coded as target=”_blank”
• [Fix]The unfocused tab can’t be closed by directly clicking the close tab button
• [Fix]The input field lost focus if alt key was pressed during typing text
• [Fix]Releasing right mouse button tended to bring up the right click menu while switching tabs via the combination of mouse buttons
• [Fix]Hovering mouse over a link to bring up the context menu failed on xp/ie6 system
• [Fix]The Print window messed up for FDF files
• [Fix]The Auto-Execute Script addon didn’t work
• [Fix]Unchecking a proxy option failed
• Some minor fixes

• Fixed a bug that cannot confirm default browser
• Fixed a bug that back/forward menu is blocked when back button is disabled

• [Feature]Multi-Process system: Avant will stay intact whether a tab crashes or not.
• [Feature]Better CPU/Memory usage. Releases memory thoroughly to fix most leaks
• [Feature]New Paste & go, Paste & submit, and Paste & Search, right click options for the Address bar
• [Feature]Private Mode: When you open a private session no history, temp files, or cookies are saved during the session.
• [Feature]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.
• [Feature]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.
• [Feature]Rendering mode: You can now choose between IE7,IE8, and IE8 Forced mode
• [Feature]Save Selected Region to Clipboard
• [Feature]Ascend or descend sorting Quick search and URL Alias
• [Feature]Clear Website icons
• [Feature]Copy all URLs from a Bookmark folder
• [Feature]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].
• [Feature]Variable tab width(Tab Bar right-click menu->Tab Options->Fixed Tab Width added)
• [Improvement]Google Translations
• [Improvement]AD Blocker
• [Fix]Being unable to start a new line to edit the script of an addon
• [Fix]Only displaying favicons in site’s root directory
• [Fix]Values are too short to read in View/Edit Autofill window when variables are too long.
• [Fix]Sometimes exported bookmarks are miscoded
• [Fix]Creating new tabs action was tardy.
• [Fix]The default zoom size was displayed as 0%.
• [Fix]New created pages didn’t follow the zoom size reset.
• [Fix]Being unable to type URL into the address bar if creating a new tab with CTRL + N
• [Fix]Annoying ActiveX error often popped up when Disable ActiveX option checked.
• [Fix]Sometime Tab may bring itself to the front.
• [Fix]Being unable to edit proxy lists
• [Fix]Tardy Auto-Complete response for the Address Bar
• [Fix]Back / Forward buttons on Logitech Mouse didn’t work.
• [Fix]Open Picture in New Tab button didn’t work.
• [Fix]Address Bar typing problem when no tab was open
• [Fix]The rendering problem in this site http://www.majorgeeks.com/
• [Fix]The drop-down history in forward/backward button disappeared after the related avanttab.exe was closed.
• [Fix]Roboform toolbar display problem
• [Fix]Sometime saving logins dialog would appear though the feature was disabled.
• [Fix]Some fixes for Yahoo toolbar
• [Fix]Searching in this site http://www.shooter.cn/ caused the tab to freeze
• [Fix]Closing Avant with ALT + F4 crashed the related tabs
• [Fix]The non-working backward/forward action activated by the combination of both mouse buttons
• [Fix]A blank area appeared when closing Avant.
• [Fix]Sometime avanttab.exe still ran though Avant Browser was already closed.
• [Fix]Tabs bar disappeared when switching back from another application if Show Windows Tab on Bottom was checked.
• [Fix]Adding this site http://www.nmc.gov.cn/publish/forecast/ABJ/beijing.html into Bookmarks folder erased all bookmarks.
• [Fix]The Title Bar lost focus when switching out of Compact Style.
• [Fix]Switching back from other applications caused the Tab Bar showed on the bottom to disappear.
• [Fix]The last closed tab’s URL still appeared in the address bar.
• [Fix]Some toolbars disappeared
• [Fix]The title bar doesn’t conform to the windows visual style.
• [Fix]some Macromedia Flash won’t load.

The long awaited release of the next version of Avant Browser has arrived. Avant Browser 11.8 Pre-Release 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.

Changelog

Fixes:

• Switching back from other applications caused the Tab Bar showed on the bottom to disappear
• The last closed tab’s URL still appeared in the address bar
• Some toolbars disappeared

Changes:

• Removed Add All Tabs To Bookmarks icon
• Removed last three options in Customize Buttons->Menu Bar

Links

• Download Avant Browser 11.8 Pre-Release
• Get Help
• Report Bugs
• Discuss the beta