Avira Scout is fast and secure Chromium-based browser, which provides a wide array of options that protect your system, and gives you a more secure environment for browsing the Internet.
As Avira Scout is based on Chromium, it has a familiar user interface, gives you a rapid browsing experience, has support for add-ons and extensions, and it is customizable.
- Secure surfing.
- Secure WiFi.
- Privacy protection.
- Chromium build.
- Autopilot.
The really useful things about Avira Scout is the array of secure, solid technologies and extensions that it comes packed with, as you would expect from Avira, a leading Antivirus solution on the market.
In addition to the robust framework that it is based upon, Avira Scout comes with a built-in set of security extensions, namely Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere and Avira Browser Safety. Privacy Badger looks for potential trackers from the websites you visit and gives you a quick way to control them, whilst the HTTPS Everywhere enables you to block all HTTP requests.
Changes:
° Updated to Chromium 50.0.2661.87, this fixes 1 security issues of Chromium
° see http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.de/2016/04/stable-channel-update_20.html for more details
° User now gets a information, if a web site requires Flash, with link to install it
° Improved installer based on Google‘s mini_installer module
° Scout now supports additional languages (Italian, French, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese)
° Fixed bug with several new tabs (FTU's) opened on startup
° Extensions now come bundled with Scout (no need for user to wait until they are downloaded and installed on first startup)
° Introduced correct UA in Scout
Known issues:
° Update is broken if interrupted manually or because of error
° Browser starts again after updating even if user has closed it before
° Manually created Scout desktop shortcuts will not work upon updating to Scout 50
Downloads:
Windows: https://ulqa.avira.com/package/tab/win/int/Avira-Scout.exe
Mac: https://ulqa.avira.com/package/tab/mac/int/Avira-Scout.dmg
Linux: https://ulqa.avira.com/package/tab/linux/int/Avira-Scout.deb