Avant 9.02 Web Browser Tutorial:
Clearing Cache / History / Auto Complete PasswordsChanging what the browser is allowed to run/display (images, flash, pop-ups)
Browser Security
Changing the home page
Viewing the Source Code of a file
Changing the refresh rate
Favorite pages/ Bookmarks
A select few other options/features
Avant is based on the Internet Explorer Browser.
Clearing Cache / History / Auto Complete Passwords
From the Tools menu, Choose Clear records.
You can clear several different records, most importantly Cookies, History, Temporary Internet Files, and Auto Complete Passwords
To clear the selected item, just click on it.
Changing what the browser is allowed to run/display (images, flash, pop-ups)
From the Tools menu,
You can choose to allow or disallow ceratin items to be displayed by the browser
To toggle the item on or off, simply click on it
Be advised that if you turn one of these features off, there may be some websites that you are unable to view properly
Browser Security
From the Tools menu,
Choose Internet Options
Choose the tab marked Security
Here you can restrict sites or add sites that you trust
If you click Custom Level, you'll get:
Here you can enable / disable / or set a prompt to allow for certain scripts on websites to run
Disabling scripts helps protect your computer from possible viruses, but may prevent you from view websites that do run the scripts as part of the page
Choose the tab marked Privacy
This allows you to choose what level of cookies you want to accept
You can also affect your Pop-up blocker here.
Choose the tab marked Content
This allows you to choose what website can be surfed to
You can also affect your Auto-Complete forms and passwords here. Click Settings in the Auto complete section
If you share your computer with someone else/ use a public computer, you may not want your personal information and passwords stored
From the Tools menu, choose Avant Browser Options
Choose Popup Blocker
You can create specific Popup filters
Choose AD Blocker
You can create specific Advertisement filters
Changing the home page
To set the home page
From the Tools menu, choose Avant Browser Options
Choose Home Page
You can type in the exact URL you want for your home page in the top area
You can choose to use either the current page in your active browsing window or a blank page
Since Avant is a tabbed browsing system, you can create a list of pages to be opened when the browser is opened.
Viewing the Source Code of a file
From the View menu,
Choose Source
The system will open the source code for the website
Changing the refresh rate
Refresh is how often your open web page updates
From the Navigation menu,
Choose either Current or All Windows
The system provides several time frames to choose from
Favorite pages/ Bookmarks
From the Favorites menu, you can view all of your favorites
Add to your favorites
Or organize your favorites
In the organization area, you can rename things
Move them into folders
Create new folders
And delete old bookmarks that you no longer need
Use the import feature to share bookmarks
A few options and Features
Since Avant is a tabbed browsing system, you can save groups of web pages that you open often
With this system you can open them all at one time
Easily translate a page with the translate option in the Tools menu