James Mok’s Soliloquy

A guide on Meta-Search Engines.

Talk about speedy support. Yesterday, I have installed Avant Browser, tested it a bit, and wrote this. Today, I found that they have fixed the bug on menu encoding in non-English system just now! I’d like to think that someone at Avant saw my blog and made the necessary correction even though it would be too far fetched to think that anyone else other than myself and Tin would actually read my blog at all, well… fat chance.

I have done some more testing on Avant Browser and found the following…

Allows multiple start-up homepages to be auto loaded at the start
Allows saving all tabs and their locations upon exit and auto reloads them all on next start
Allows tabs or widows to be opened either on the foreground or on the background with either a blank Page, current page, home page, or from Clipboard.
One toggle button to maximize window which auto hides all tool bars.

Although I find most Avant Browser functions to be major improvements over IE6, AB’s search button replaced my most used IE6 category search with a plain built-in Google search even though there is already a Google search bar on AB, which does essentially the same thing as the button does except for advanced search. I missed the one button dictionary search on IE6, but I have found a work around. I preset AB to start by opening both my regular home page as well as Merriam-Webster’s dictionary site. This way I have both of them on tabs for instant access.

I have sent the AB guys a suggestion to either switch their search button back to IE6’s original, or add another button to do so.

We’ll see how it goes.