Avant Browser is a popular freeware web browser from a Chinese programmer named Anderson Che, which unites the Trident layout engine built into Windows (see Internet Explorer shell) with an interface intended to be more feature-rich, flexible and ergonomic than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE). It runs on Windows 98 and above, including Windows Vista. Internet Explorer version 6 or 7 must be installed.
As of November 2008, total downloads surpassed 22.5 million.
Avant Browser is currently available in 41 languages.

Ma.gnolia is a social bookmarking web site comparable to Delicious or Simpy. A prominent feature that distinguishes it from other similar web sites is the group feature, which allows several users to share a common collection of bookmarks. The group is managed by a selected number of group managers. Users may rate bookmarks and mark bookmarks as private.

The online world has changed dramatically even since we last drew up a list of 100 useful sites in December 2006. In the interim, there has been a revival of the browser wars – with Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari making surprising inroads into the Windows monopoly, and offering a new vision of what browsing can be like.
Many of the sites listed here were not available when we did our last list; although longevity is a mark of pride online, it is difficult for companies set up in the 1990s …