Avast News: Avast Secure Browser boosts performance

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Our new release saves memory, extends battery life, and automatically checks to see if your password has been stolen.

Your browser is a doorway to the internet, and it needs to be guarded. With all the tracking and targeting and phishing and faking that occurs on a daily basis, you need a browser that filters out the bad and fights off the dangerous. Avast Secure Browser gives you all the tools to easily manage and be in control of your online security.

Download the new Avast Secure Browser for free here.

The Zermatt release, named after the beautiful Swiss mountain town, is a major update for Avast Secure Browser. It significantly improves performance by using less memory and extending battery life, and it updates existing critical features with security-bolstering upgrades.

Enhanced performance

Increase your capabilities by smartly managing your resources with the new ‘Performance Manager.’ Future versions of Avast Secure Browser will add more Performance Manager tools, and the Zermatt release starts you off with the first two performance-improving functions.

Browse faster with improved tab management

Supercharge your browser for an even faster browsing experience with the ‘Optimize RAM and CPU’ feature. You can have as many tabs opened as you like. Avast Secure Browser will manage them for you. Tabs that lay dormant for an amount of time you specify will be automatically suspended in the background, reducing the demand on CPU and RAM by as much as half. This gives your active tabs and apps more engine power to function smoothly. In initial benchmarking tests, the browser with this feature turned on used about half as much memory as without.

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