FireFox is nice and all, but I work for a ‘Microsoft Shop’, so it doesn’t do me much good to browse the ‘Net on a Mozilla-based browser.  Yet, we all know that Internet Explorer is nearly become a dinosaur.

Well, there’s a bit of hope (and it’s free!)  I recently downloaded the Avant Browser which is basically a wrapper for Internet Explorer.  Some of the nifty features include:

·         Flash Animation Filter (Yippee! Block those annoying Flash ads.)

·         Built-in Pop-up Blocker

·         Multi-Window Tabbed Browsing

·         Real Full Screen Mode and Alternative Full Desktop mode

·         Built-in Yahoo/Google Search Engine

·         Full IE Compatibility

·         Records Cleaner

·         Safe Recovery

·         Skins

There certainly are other browsers like the Avant Browser, but I found that this one works best for my needs.