Avant Browser 10.1, build 40, works under Wine 0.9.10 with a few caveats. The 'Address:' bar jiggles (in both the View->Address Bar and 'Open a link' window). The 'Address:' bar has to be turned off (uncheck the View -> Address Bar checkbox) in order for the browser to start up fully. The up/down rail aren't properly painted, but you can navigate a 'cut-off' page with the up/down or page-up/page-down keys. But in general it works.

What works

Wise installer/uninstaller (absetup.exe/uninst.exe) - Never really had problems with the installer. Will install the wrapper under Wine emulating Win95 - WinXP.

Avant.exe - The browser can be run with Wine emulating Win95 - WinXP, but perhaps the 'smoothest' operation is when it's installed and run under Win95. Some websites render (e.g. Freebsd.org, Netbsd.org, MSN.com) but others just don't go anywhere (i.e. they just continue to load). It appears that the webpages are downloaded, but aren't immediately rendered. After a few seconds, if you stop the page loading, go back in the history, then go forward to the page attempted to be loaded, the page will render correctly. The browser also pops an icon into the SystemTray.

What does not

General: None of the keyword shortcuts for the toolbar work. Clicking on them does work, but the keyboard shortcuts are no-goes. None of the radio or checkboxes show whether they've been checked or not. The Address: bar and the 'Open a Link:' dropdown flicker and don't properly display the URL previously input.

A summary run-down of the toolbar commands:

File -> Save... : It's kind of hit-and-miss on full website pages you can save (saving just the plain HTML page works)

->Print Preview: Crashes the browser

->Send a Link: Doesn't do anything

->Exit: While this does close the browser, it never saves the exit option selected. And Avant comes back up thinking it has crashed.

Edit ->Find on this Page...: doesn't work.

Tools->Avant Browser Options...: doesn't show up fully. However, if the Systray Avant Browser icon is right-clicked and 'Customize Tray Icon...' is chosen, the Options page comes up fully.

What was not tested
Not much

Additional Comments

	Distribution	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Slackware 10.2	Apr 30 2006	0.9.12.	Yes	Yes	Bronze	an anonymous user
Show	Slackware 10.2	Apr 04 2006	0.9.11.	No	No	Garbage	an anonymous user
Show	Slackware 10.2	Mar 16 2006	0.9.10.	Yes	Yes	Bronze	an anonymous user
Show	Slackware 10.2	Mar 10 2006	0.9.9.	No	No	Garbage	an anonymous user
Show	Slackware 10.2	Feb 18 2006	0.9.8.	Yes	Yes	Bronze	an anonymous user