I have Comodo FW and AVIRAFREE with Webguard shield. It's protecting also the Dragon browser evenif Comodo...!!! Sounds weird to me that Avast's webshield don't protect Ice 
Why mention "avira" on an avast forum? 
The OP is asking about browsers "not" a/v's.
@ Omega40 Chrome is anything but cumbersome. Chrome is super light and extremely easy to use. BTW I use both for different reasons. 
I pointed out that Avira offers me protection on
any browser. I was running Avast for many many years but it simply won't stay on my system but it's OT...! Avira is stable and I'm happy with it. Hope only Avast will improve and stop looking its belly button all the time...!!!
You're right. Chrome and Dragon are way faster and secure (some kind of sandbox...). For privacy, I won't dream surfing the web without sending any info to Google for sure (google analytics etc...). Just tested it on the internet speed page (google it!) and Google won the prize!!!
