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The long awaited release of the next version of Avant Browser has arrived. Avant Browser 11.8 Beta 1 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:

• Address Bar typing problem when no tab was open
• The rendering problem in this site http://www.majorgeeks.com/
• The drop-down history in forward/backward button disappeared after the related avanttab.exe was closed
• Foboform toolbar display problem
• Sometime saving logins dialog would appear though the feature was disabled
• Some fixes for Yahoo toolbar
• Searching in this site http://www.shooter.cn/ caused the tab to freeze
• Closing Avant with ALT + F4 crashed the related tabs
• The non-working backward/forward action activated by the combination of both mouse buttons
• A blank area appeared when closing Avant
• Sometime avanttab.exe still ran though Avant Browser was already closed
• Tabs bar disappeared when switching back from another application if Show Windows Tab on Bottom was checked
• Adding this site http://www.nmc.gov.cn/publish/forecast/ABJ/beijing.html into Bookmarks folder erased all bookmarks
• The Title Bar lost focus when switching out of Compact Style

Improvements:

• Backup / Restore Management
• Google Translations
• AD Blocker

Links

• Download Avant Browser 11.8 Beta 1
• Get Help
• Report Bugs
• Discuss the beta

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

First off, you should all know that a development cycle is conducted to produce a stable, bug free, final release. Like all software, it is better to take the time to get a release the best that it can be instead of rushing it out causing problems for users. We know you have been waiting for a very long time for this release and we really appreciate your patience. As with any project, this one has had its share of delays but the team developing this next version of Avant Browser is taking the time to get it right. We regret these delays but they were necessary and we hope you will like what is coming.

Since January 09, when the next version, codenamed “Avant 12“, was originally announced, there has been a lot of work done to completely overhaul Avant from the ground up. Everything you know and love about Avant will remain however it will look and feel much better. The biggest change you will notice is a completely revamped interface with a whole new skinning system. It will still use the Trident rendering engine from the currently installed version of Internet Explorer. But also a lot of things had to be done to fix the source of the problems plaguing the current release, Avant Browser 11.x, and that is the kernel(core) of Avant, it handles the internal workings such as memory usage, stability, and operation.

Final plans are still being decided upon but due to how long it has taken to develop Avant 12, the project may be broken up into two releases. How they will be broken up and when these releases are coming out are not known right now.

• Fixed the bug where the Duplicate function ignores ” Create new tab next to current tab” settings
• Added Ctrl+Wheel Scroll to zoom the web page for Avant Browser based on IE8
• Fixed the bug where the zoom level of a webpage would change when navigating backwards
• Fixed the bug that caused an Encoding error when sending a page by outlook
• Fixed the bug that caused you to be unable to preview videos on Bing.com
• Fixed the bug where Avant Browser failed to navigate inside http://www.gamebanshee.com/
• Fixed the encoding problem in exported bookmarks
• Fixed a bug making the Address Box lose focus when Auto-Complete is enabled

Dear Translators,

It’s that time of the year again. As we are welcoming the year of 2010, we like to express our appreciation to all of your help ever offered to Avant Browser in the past. Your constant supports keep making our software outstanding among other rivals and encouraging us to do even better in the future.

Avant Browser has been proudly selected from European Commission to be the inclusion into the Browser Choice Screen for Europe during users installing Mircosoft’s windows 7. The screenshot would come as the attached browser.jpg(in the zipped file).

Avant Browser would show up with a logo and short description among the browsers listed in the attached picture. We need the description about Avant Browser to be translated to your language. Besides,current Avant Browser’s installation interface comes with English only, so we’re planning to change it to your language as well in next build.

We hope you can help us by translate the attached shortdescription.txt and interface.txt (both in the zipped file) into your language prior to this final Windows 7 release around Europe.

Note for the interface.txt, you just need to translate words in the right of “=”, keeping “%APPNAME%” and “:” what they are now in the text file.

Please make sure to save the files with your language name for us identifying and send them back to tr[at]avantbrowser[dot]com before Jan. 5th.

Up to now we’ve got some feedbacks from our translators, but still have following languages untranslated:

Estonian
Finnish
Latvian
Lithuanian
Romanian
Slovak
Slovenian
French
Hungarian
Spanish
Swedish

We feel appreciated if translators being able to translate above languages could contact us ASAP.

Wish you the best for the New Year 2010.

Sincerely,
Avant Force

Download: avant_interface_lng.zip