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Avant Browser
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{{Infobox software
| name                   = Avant Browser
| logo                   = 
| screenshot             = 
| caption                = Avant Browser 2013 Build 110
| developer              = Avant Force
| released               = {{Release date|2004|01|30}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.avantbrowser.com/new.aspx?uil=en-US |title=Avant Browser - What's New in the Latest Version? |publisher=Avant Force |accessdate=2016-10-16}}</ref>
| latest release version  = {{Latest stable software release/Avant}}
| ver layout = stacked
| operating system       = [[Windows]] ([[Windows 2000]] and later)
| size                   = '''Lite:''' {{nowrap|4.46 [[Megabyte|MB]]}}<br /><!--
                        -->'''Ultimate:''' {{nowrap|62.9 MB}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.avantbrowser.com/download.aspx?uil=en-us |title=Download - Avant Browser |publisher=Avant Force |accessdate=2016-10-16}}</ref>
| genre                  = [[Web browser]]<br/>[[Feed reader]]
| license                = [[Freeware]]
| website                = {{URL|avantbrowser.com}}
}}
'''Avant Browser''' is a [[freeware]] [[web browser]] from a [[Chinaese people|Chinese]] programmer named Anderson Che, which unites the [[Trident (layout engine)|Trident layout engine]] built into [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] (see [[Internet Explorer shell]]) with an interface intended to be more [[software feature|feature-rich]], flexible and ergonomic than [[Microsoft]]'s [[Internet Explorer]] (IE). It runs on [[Windows 2000]] and above, including [[Windows 8]], [[Windows 8.1]] and [[Windows 10]]. [[Internet Explorer]] versions [[Internet Explorer 6|6]] through [[Internet Explorer 11|11]] are supported.

Version 2012 (released October 2011) was separated in two editions: ''Ultimate'' edition, which added the [[Gecko (software)|Gecko layout engine]] (used by [[Mozilla Firefox]]), allowing the user choose between both layout engines, and ''Lite'' edition which contains only the Trident layout engine.

As of November 2008, total downloads surpassed 22.5 million.

Avant Browser is currently available in 41 languages.⏎
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==History and development==

Avant Browser was largely inspired by [[Opera (web browser)|Opera]], the first major browser to have a [[multiple document interface]]. The developer's objective was to wrap a comparable interface around the [[Browser engine|layout engine]] used by Internet Explorer, thereby achieving Opera-like [[human factors and ergonomics|ergonomics]] without suffering the frequent problems that browser had rendering pages tested only in Internet Explorer. In fact, it was initially rele(contracted; show full){{Web browsers|desktop}}
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