Avant Browser maakt gebruik van de engine van Internet Explorer, maar voegt daar extra functionaliteit aan toe zoals een pop-up blocker, de ondersteuning van mouse gestures, het gebruiken van tabbed browsing, een zoekbalk en de mogelijkheid om het uiterlijk van het programma aan te passen door gebruik van skins. Een deel van deze mogelijkheden worden ook door versie 7 van IE aangeboden, Avant Browser kan echter al gebruikt worden vanaf IE 5.5. De ontwikkelaars van Avant Force hebben versie 11.7 build 8 uitgebracht voorzien van de volgende lijst met aanpassingen:
Version 11.7 Build 8:Version 11.7 Build 7:
- Fixed the bug where the search bar generated 2 pop-up boxes after a search in the current page
- Fixed the bug that kept some images searching results from showing up
- Fixed the saving images to 0 bytes bug through floating tool bar
- Fixed the bug that caused the history of visited sites to be mismatched if sorted by visited order
- Fixed the bug keeping you from dragging and dropping the desired rss url to open up in a new tab
- Fixed the bug that kept the scroll bar from showing up completely
- Fixed the bug where the new version can't replace some files if you're reinstalling Avant without uninstalling the old one
- Fixed the bug where deleting words in the Organizing Bookmarks/AutoFills dialog caused it to prompt you to delete the whole item
- Address bar highlighting
- Fixed the bug that caused pictures from being able to appear in RSS Reader
- Fixed the bug where sometimes you can't open up a page the first time starting the browser
- Fixed the bug that caused the Autofill feature to sometimes lead to entering urls very slowly
- Fixed the bug where a new page was always opened in foreground under any condition
- Fixed the bug where the Save As Text function didn't work
- Fixed the bug where uninstalling Avant removed all items in the default list under Vista
- Fixed the bug that restarting a new instance of Avant kept notifying you to reopen up the opened tabs in the previous instance
- Fixed the bug that caused the focus to jump to the previously used tab after entering URL
- Fixed the bug where the search and address bar didn't allow special characters
- Fixed Avant's User Agent String
- Fixed the bug where the options for the floating bar didn't take effect
- Fixed the bug that caused the address bar to not get changed accordingly when the newly opened blank page w