Avant Browser version history

Version History

This shows you how often Avant Browser was updated with us over the past few months. Whenever available, we also include additional information for each update (new features, changes etc.).

version 11.7. build 18 - posted on Nov 01, 2008

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version 11.7. build 16 - posted on Oct 29, 2008

Fixed the bug where inputting key words in Goolge Toolbar brought up menus
Fixed the bug keeping Ctrl+L from working
Fixed the bug keeping some buttons from displaying in Floating Text Toolbar
Fixed the bug where the color of the Nexos skin became darker after you restarted the browser
Fixed the bug where the address bar dropdown list screened the interface of some programs
Fixed the bug keeping the Enter key from responding to Open a Link window
Fixed the bug keeping the address bar favicon from displaying for Google search
Fixed the bug where clearing temporary internet files caused history of visited web sites to get deleted

version 11.7. build 15 - posted on Sep 26, 2008

Fixed the bug which kept you from unchecking the options in Proxy Server
Fixed the bug which kept you from opening up the menus through shortcuts
Removed the Coding button in Customize Buttons menu
Removed the Url showed above the Autofill item while the cursor was hovering over it
Added pressing Enter feature to open up the closed pages last time you ended the browser

version 11.7. build 12 - posted on Sep 19, 2008

Removed the yellow background in the Address Bar drop download list while you re inputting urls
Added the search function to the Address Bar drop down list
Added the feature rearranging the items in Tab Context Menu according to the Tabs Bar position
Fixed the blank Bookmarks Bar issue under IE8
Fixed the bug that sometimes caused the system to beep while you re pressing Enter in Address Bar

version 11.7. build 10 - posted on Sep 12, 2008

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version 11.7. build 9 - posted on Sep 12, 2008

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version 11.7. build 8 - posted on Sep 10, 2008

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version 11.6. build 20 - posted on Sep 03, 2008

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version 11.6. build 19 - posted on Jun 23, 2008

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version 11.6. build 13 - posted on Jun 06, 2008

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version 11.6. build 11 - posted on Apr 03, 2008

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version 11.5 build 20 - posted on Aug 27, 2007

Fixed the bug that cannot clear history in address bar.

version 11.5 build 18 - posted on Aug 13, 2007

# Improved Online Storage for slow connections
Fixed the bug that cannot set Avant as the default browser under vista

version 11.5 build 17 - posted on Aug 07, 2007

Improved Online Storage for slow connections
Fixed the bug that cannot set Avant as the default browser under vista
Improved the progress bar display of skins
Improved for dual-monitor display

version 11.5 build 16 - posted on Jul 14, 2007

* Fixed a few bugs with skins
Improved Online Storage
Fixed the bug of context menu under Vista

version 11.5 build 15 - posted on Jul 10, 2007

Fixed a few bugs with skins
Improved Online Storage
Fixed the bug of context menu under Vista

version 11.5 build 11 - posted on Jun 30, 2007

Fixed a bug of focusing new window
Fixed a bug of context menu
Fixed a bug of browsing baidu.com

version 11.5 build 10 - posted on Jun 23, 2007

Fixed a bug of focusing new window
Fixed a bug of context menu

version 11.5 build 8 - posted on Jun 14, 2007

Re-designed User Interface with concepts of simply and user-friendly
Re-designed Customizable Context menu to replace IE s
Re-designed Address Bar drop-down list
Re-designed Online Storage
Re-designed Compact View
Support PNG image in the GUI, Skin Maker coming soon
Added "Copy URL" for Links context menu
Added "Open in New Window" for Links menu
Added Supper drag-and-drop for links and searches
Imporved Memory Usage
Improved Importing functions that allow import from another account of Avant
Imporived security for websites to access user s clipboard
Fixed a few bugs with non-Administrator accounts
Fixed the bug that Flash Player doesn t work with propertly when IE7 installed
Fixed the bug that cannot search for Non-English bookmarks
Fixed the bug that cannot open XML with xsl sheet
Fixed some minor bugs found in the previous versions
Fixed a bug with proxy

version 11.0 build 46 - posted on Mar 02, 2007

Fixed a bug of "switch account" to remote server

version 11.0 build 45 - posted on Feb 14, 2007

Improved Online Storage
Improved Dialogs for keyboard inpute
Improved UI unicode support
Updated Hebrew/Vietnamese/Abaric language pack

version 11.0 build 43 - posted on Jan 19, 2007

Fixed a bug of encoding in importing/exporting bookmarks
Improved unicode support
Fixed a compatibility issue with vista that could not get URL from favorites
Improved unicode support

version 11.0 build 42 - posted on Dec 29, 2006

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version 11.0 build 39 - posted on Dec 16, 2006

Fixed a bug of "Fill in New Window" of AutoFills

version 11.0 build 37 - posted on Dec 12, 2006

Improved Flash Player hosting

version 11.0 build 25 - posted on Oct 24, 2006

Improved RSS Reader
View->SOurce to view RSS source
Fixed a bug of popup blocker with AutoFill
A few internal polish

version 11.0 build 21 - posted on Oct 17, 2006

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version 11.0 build 15 - posted on Oct 12, 2006

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version 11.0 build 12 - posted on Oct 09, 2006

Improved Menu Display

version 11.0 build 11 - posted on Oct 04, 2006

Improved Menu Display

version 11.0 build 8 - posted on Sep 30, 2006

Improved non-English display
Improved Online Storage Transfer
Improved IE Plug-ins Support
Fixed a bug that the order of re-arranged toolbars will be lost when modify Options
Update Translations.

version 11.0 build 7 - posted on Sep 28, 2006

Improved non-English display
Improved Online Storage Transfer
Improved IE Plug-ins Support
Fixed a bug that the order of re-arranged toolbars will be lost when modify Options
Update Translations.

version 11.5 - posted on Sep 22, 2006

Avant Online Storage. Since this version, Avant Browser allows users to save their profile online, such that users could reach their bookmarks, RSS feeds and configurations etc from any computers that have Avant Browser installed.

New build-in Outlook-style RSS reader.

Built-in AutoFill, which allows users to save their web passwords with Avant Browser.

New Bookmarks System, Powerful bookmarks management (Check availablilities etc).

Improved plug-in support, supports IE s BHO/Button/Toolbars and Script Buttons.

Improved Find/Highlight features on search bar

More tab options: Lock Tabs / Show Underlines/Show Progress Bar/Show Close Button etc.

Fixed most bugs reported in 10.x

version 10.2.051 - posted on Apr 12, 2006

Fixed a bug of the close button on tabs.
Fixed a bug that may freeze favorites list view.
Improved HTTP helper.

version 10.2.039 - posted on Apr 03, 2006

Updated Development Environment to latest Borland Delphi 2006 Enterprise. All previous versions are compiled by Delphi 6 released in 2000.
Open Links from MSN.
Improved Popup Blocker for experts-exchange.com.
Improved Tab Buttons.
Improved Find/Highlight.
Improved Favicon handling.
Improved multi-monitor support.
Improve UI speed.
Improved Page Scrolling.

version 10.2.028 - posted on Mar 25, 2006

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version 10.2.026 - posted on Mar 23, 2006

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version 10.2.025 - posted on Mar 21, 2006

Updated Development Environment to latest Borland Delphi 2006 Enterprise. All previous versions are compiled by Delphi 6 released in 2000.
Open Links from MSN.
Improved Popup Blocker for experts-exchange.com.
Improved Tab Buttons.
Improved Find/Highlight.
Improved Favicon handling.
Improved multi-monitor support.
Improve UI speed.
Improved Page Scrolling.

version 10.1.040 - posted on Jan 02, 2006

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version 10.1.038 - posted on Dec 28, 2005

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version 10.1.037 - posted on Dec 17, 2005

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version 10.1.035 - posted on Dec 14, 2005

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version 10.1.032 - posted on Nov 10, 2005

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version 10.1.031 - posted on Nov 01, 2005

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version 10.1.030 - posted on Oct 10, 2005

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version 10.1.028 - posted on Sep 29, 2005

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version 10.1.026 - posted on Sep 13, 2005

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version 10.1.022 - posted on Aug 25, 2005

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version 10.1 Build 21 - posted on Aug 11, 2005

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version 10.1 Build 17 - posted on Aug 07, 2005

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version 10.1 Build 16 - posted on Jul 17, 2005

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version 10.0 Build 168 - posted on May 31, 2005

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version 10.0 Build 167 - posted on Mar 31, 2005

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version 10.0 Build 159 - posted on Mar 19, 2005

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version 10.0 Build 158 - posted on Mar 13, 2005

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version 10.0 Build 153 - posted on Mar 08, 2005

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version 10.0 Build 151 - posted on Mar 05, 2005

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version 10.0 Build 133 - posted on Mar 02, 2005

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version 10.0 Build 131 - posted on Feb 17, 2005

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version 10.0 Build 125 - posted on Feb 10, 2005

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version 10.0 Build 121 - posted on Feb 01, 2005

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version 10.0 Build 35 - posted on Nov 22, 2004

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version 10.0 Build 33 - posted on Nov 17, 2004

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version 10.0 Build 029 - posted on Oct 19, 2004

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version 10.0 Build 027 - posted on Oct 15, 2004

Built-in XML RSS/ATOM Feeds Reader
Floating Bar for selected Text (Copy, Search, Find, Highlight...)
Floating Bar for Flash Movie (Save, Play in Player, emailing, Block...)
Floating Bar for Image (Save, View in Viewer, Zoom in/out, emailing...)
New Message Handling, Improved Stability and CPU usage
Improved Memory Usage, it s faster with large number of windows opened
Send a whole page with email
Page Zooming
Support IE Privacy Report
Support IE Security Zones
Improved screen/desktop mode, all panels are can be hidden automatically
Show URL as tooltips for blocked Popups
Show URL as tooltips for blocked ADs
Improved Popup Blocker, more popups will be blocked
Save HTML Source of a webpage
Display a list of links to select, when opening/recovering last time saved/opened web pages
Fixed Web Page Printing Bug for certain computers
Fixed the bug that cannot start in Limited User Account
Countless internal polishes

version 9.02 Build 101 - posted on Aug 02, 2004

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version 9.02 Build 033 - posted on Jun 17, 2004

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version 9.02 Build 031 - posted on Jun 10, 2004

Improved True-Color FavIcon Display.
Display FavIcon for recent opened web page list.
Added Right-Click Menu for recent opened web page list.
Added Right-Click Menu for address box drop-down list.
Improved message handling for stability/speed.
Improved focus handling for pages loading in the background.
Improved translations for Danish and Brazilian Portuguese.

version 9.02 Build 026 - posted on May 17, 2004

Improved hooks for stability.
Improved support for RoboForm plug-in.
Save the order of tabs when using "Save All Opened Pages and Exit".
Save the order of tabs when creating new groups.
Updated translation for Turkish.

version 9.02 Build 021 - posted on Apr 30, 2004

Use Internet Explorer default HTTP error handling.
Updated translations for Turkish, Swedish and Finnish.
Minors polishes.

version 9.02 Build 018 - posted on Apr 21, 2004

Improved memory and GDI management.
Improved drawing for the main window, faster drawing.
Improved address box.

version 9.02 Build 017 - posted on Apr 15, 2004

Improved memory and GDI management.
Improved drawing for the main window, faster drawing.
Improved address box.

version 9.02 Build 012 - posted on Apr 09, 2004

Added New Search Engine Licensed by Yahoo.
Added the close button on the vertical splitter bar.
Imporved Favorites Menu, now favorites can be resorted by drag-and-drop.
Improved Favorites Menu Display.
Improved Memory Usage.
Improved Popup Blocker for stability.
Improved Address Box display for large size font.
Lots of minors polishes.

version 9.01 Build 121 - posted on Mar 26, 2004

Improved Popup Blocker.
Improved AD Blocker.
Improved Tab Button Drawing.
Improved Address Box Drawing.

version 9.01 Build 120 - posted on Mar 23, 2004

Improved stability, fixed a bug that causes Avant Browser lock up.

version 9.01 Build 118 - posted on Mar 03, 2004

Fixed 2 bugs cause Avant Browser to freeze.
New Mouse Gestures

version 9.01 Build 113 - posted on Feb 12, 2004

Removed aHTTP.exe from Avant Browser
Improved Browsing Speed.
Improved Popup Blocker.
Fixed a bug: when have Yahoo Toolbar actived, closing the current browsing window will crash the whole browser.

version 9.01 Build 106 - posted on Feb 09, 2004

Improved Popup Blocker.
Fixed a bug: when have Yahoo Toolbar actived, closing the current browsing window will crash the whole browser.

version 8.02.212 - posted on Jan 20, 2004

Improved skins painting.
Improved FavIcon Drawing.
Fixed the bugs in Favorites Creating/Editing/Deleting

version 8.02.211 - posted on Jan 10, 2004

Improved memory/CPU usage.
Fixed the bug of GDI objects leak.

version 8.02.210 - posted on Dec 27, 2003

Improved the function to create favorites with FavIcon.
Improved the painting function of toolbars.
Improved the display of all menus, the display of menus is much faster.
New built-in skins: Xito, Roma and Windows Tranditional.

version 8.02.207 - posted on Dec 09, 2003

Improved Download for FavIcon.
Display FavIcon in Favorites, Links and Address Box.
Create Favorites with FavIcon.
Improved kernel for speed and stability.
Improved Support for groups.
Fixed a bug of favorites band drag-and-drop.

version 8.02.117 - posted on Nov 17, 2003

Improved memory usage.
Improved support for file downloads and download managers.
Improved browsing kernel for browsing speed and stability.

version 8.02.116 - posted on Nov 15, 2003

Improved support for file downloads and download managers.

version 8.02.112 - posted on Nov 10, 2003

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version 8.02.107 - posted on Oct 21, 2003

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version 8.02.106 - posted on Oct 18, 2003

Improved Framework for speed and stability.

version 8.02.105 - posted on Sep 30, 2003

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version 8.02.102 - posted on Sep 25, 2003

Improved FavIcon download/display.
Improved Browsing Kernel.

version 8.02.101 - posted on Sep 19, 2003

New blue logo and blue icon.
Improved middle clicking to open a new window in the background.
Improved Address Bar support for FavIcon.
Fixed a bug that may lock Avant Browser when start to download FavIcon.
Fixed a bug that Favorites doesn t work under limited user account.
Fixed a bug that RoboForm, Google and Yahoo toolbar don t show up under limited user account.
Fixed a bug that cannot search with keywords containing "&", "+".
Added translations: English (United Kingdom), Portuguese (Standard), Macedonian.

version 8.02.018 - posted on Sep 03, 2003

Improved Favorites Folder drag-and-drop support.
Create a shortcut by dragging the URL from the address box to the desktop. .
Drag and Drop an URL to a tab button to open the URL in the corresponding browser window.
Arrange tab buttons by drag-and-drop.
Support FavoIcons.
Detect the new version of Avant Browser automatically.
Fixed User Agent setting, "Avant Browser [avantbrowser.com]" has been removed from User Agent.

version v8.02.012 - posted on Aug 14, 2003

Support URL drag and drop. Drop an URL to an opened browser window, the URL will be opened in the corresponding window. Drop an URL to the main window of Avant Browser, the URL will be opened in a new window.
Improved 3rd party toolbar support, fixed the bug that 3rd party toolbar will go blank sometime.
Improved integration for RoboForm toolbar.
New Translation Added: Estonian.

version 8.02.009 - posted on Aug 01, 2003

Improved Browsing Kernel, Avant Browser now use much less CPU time and memory than before. CPU usage has been improved to reduce to 1/3-1/10 of total CPU usage that is used by previous versions.

version 8.02.007 - posted on Jul 24, 2003

Improved Acrobat 6.0 support.
Improved `Always create new browsing window in the foreground/background`, now all new windows can be controlled by this option.
Fixed spontaneously open new windows when close pages contain certain scripts.
Remember typed URL when switching tabs.
New Translation Added: Afrikaans, Norwegian (Nynorsk).
Language Files Updated: Spanish, Serbian, Thai, Hungarian, Croatian.

version 8.02.001 - posted on Jul 02, 2003

Improved drawing engine gives more options for skins.
Five visual styles have been added: Monai XP, Nexos, Office Adaptive, Office XP, Tristan.
Improved left panel.

version 8.01.112 - posted on Jun 26, 2003

Improved support for RoboForm 5.2.8 or later version.
Fixed RoboForm display issue for some system.
Hide Google and Yahoo toolbar for Win9x/ME for compatibility reason.
Improved compatibility for 3rd party toolbars.
Added option to save all opened pages when shutting down windows.
Improved browsing kernel to speed up page loading on some system.
Updated Finnish Language support.
Added Romanian Language support.

version 8.01.108 - posted on Jun 14, 2003

Removed alert message when ActiveX is disabled.
Improved Anti-Lock when browsing web pages.
Added Vietnamese support.

version 8.01.107 - posted on Jun 10, 2003

Enable opening of individual group items
Show `Open All Links in This Group`
Show `Open All Favorites in This Folder`
Show `Open All Recently Opened Pages`
Show `Clear Recently Opened Page List`
Show `Open All Home Pages`
Auto hide the top panel in Full Screen/Desktop Mode
Auto hide the bottom panel in Full Screen/Desktop Mode
Show Avant Browser in Taskbar (need to restart Avant Browser).
Open a new window for search result

version 8.01.105 - posted on Jun 06, 2003

Improved supports for 3rd party toolbars (RoboForm, Yahoo and Google)
Improved speed when using 3rd party toolbars
Improved stability

version 8.01.103 - posted on Jun 04, 2003

Supports Google Toolbar
Supports Yahoo! Companion Toolbar

version 8.0.752 - posted on Jun 02, 2003

No further details available

version 8.0 build 728 - posted on May 30, 2003

Fixed a bug: Inactive window will steal focus from active window when finish loading a page.
Improved Full Desktop and Full Screen modes.
Improved lng File loader. The startup of Avant Browser is much faster in non-English system.
Finished Translations: German, French, Simplified Chinese, Russian and Portuguese.
Improved Browsing Kernel.
Support RoboForm, a Password Manager and Form Filler.
Improved Middle button dual mode.
Improved search bar.
Added Options to disable displaying confirmation for [Close All] and [Close all except the current].
Auto-detect changes in Favorites.
Display Favorites in multi-AutoScroll-column. (Very useful when having 200
favorites in one folder.
Added: Full Desktop Mode.
Added Clear Search Keywords in the options page of Clear Records.
Double click online/offline icon to toggle offline/online
Double click speaker icon to enable/disable `play sound when popup page is blocked`.
Double click the number of blocked pages to reset the number to 0.
Completely re-worked drawing engine promises to make Avant faster than ever (at least 20%).
New visual style.
Completely reworked menus.
Detachable toolbars.
Enhanced buttons customizing.
Enhanced groups features.
Enhanced browsing kernel.
Enhanced highlight in the toolbar.
Full screen now really = full screen!!! Nothing but the webpage. But, scrolling your mouse over the top of the screen brings up the address bar and the rest of the toolbar section and the bottom brings up the tabs section.
Changeable Skins (including a program called skin factory, that will be online soon).
Lock the toolbars.
Fly favorites editing, but only on the side bar.
Resort favorites.
View your history in all sorts of new ways, sort by date, order visited, site, etc...
Large icons now implemented in the toolbar.
More search options on the toolbar.
64 mirrors of Google have been added.
Start up with multiple homepages.
Create shortcuts to the desktop and drag and drop images to desktop and folders.
Middle mouse button can now open new links AND do scrolling.
Support windows profiles, all machine users can use Avant Browser now.

version 8.0 - posted on May 28, 2003

Fixed a bug: Inactive window will steal focus from active window when finish loading a page.
Improved Full Desktop and Full Screen modes.
Improved lng File loader. The startup of Avant Browser is much faster in non-English system.
Finished Translations: German, French, Simplified Chinese, Russian and Portuguese.
Improved Browsing Kernel.
Support RoboForm, a Password Manager and Form Filler.
Improved Middle button dual mode.
Improved search bar.
Added Options to disable displaying confirmation for [Close All] and [Close all except the current].
Auto-detect changes in Favorites.
Display Favorites in multi-AutoScroll-column. (Very useful when having 200
favorites in one folder.
Added: Full Desktop Mode.
Added Clear Search Keywords in the options page of Clear Records.
Double click online/offline icon to toggle offline/online
Double click speaker icon to enable/disable `play sound when popup page is blocked`.
Double click the number of blocked pages to reset the number to 0.
Completely re-worked drawing engine promises to make Avant faster than ever (at least 20%).
New visual style.
Completely reworked menus.
Detachable toolbars.
Enhanced buttons customizing.
Enhanced groups features.
Enhanced browsing kernel.
Enhanced highlight in the toolbar.
Full screen now really = full screen!!! Nothing but the webpage. But, scrolling your mouse over the top of the screen brings up the address bar and the rest of the toolbar section and the bottom brings up the tabs section.
Changeable Skins (including a program called skin factory, that will be online soon).
Lock the toolbars.
Fly favorites editing, but only on the side bar.
Resort favorites.
View your history in all sorts of new ways, sort by date, order visited, site, etc...
Large icons now implemented in the toolbar.
More search options on the toolbar.
64 mirrors of Google have been added.
Start up with multiple homepages.
Create shortcuts to the desktop and drag and drop images to desktop and folders.
Middle mouse button can now open new links AND do scrolling.
Support windows profiles, all machine users can use Avant Browser now.

version 7.0.5.2 - posted on Mar 05, 2003

Fixed a bug: Closing a window contains media player 9 may result in a error message.
Added [Maximize All] button to the toolbar
Added [Close All Except the Current] button to the toolbar
Customized Window-Control Buttons

version 7.0.3.2 - posted on Jan 29, 2003

Fixed a bug of Organize Groups Form
Improved URL typing in Open a Link Form
Improved search keywords typing

version 7.0.3.1 - posted on Jan 27, 2003

language pack updates