As many other people here I do not like when someone install something on my PC without my authorization. Getting SafeZone was an unpleasant surprise for me. I wish at least I could receive a notification with some explanation of what's happening before it got installed.
Anyway, I'm not completely satisfied with the browser I have now, so I'm willing to give it a try. But I have some questions.
Info :
avast is giving the SafeZone browser to a limited amount of people who are using the free version of avast.
The reason is that they want more people to test it and get feedback about the browser.
1. First of all, does this mean that after some testing period the browser will disappear from my PC in the same way it appeared? Together with all my saved bookmarks, passwords, etc?
2. How can I switch off the option to use address bar as a search bar? When I need to find something I go directly to the web site I prefer and make search from their main page, also because I need other features they provide (text search, image search, translate, and/or map search). It greatly annoys me when the browser starts searching, makes me wait, and gives me all the ridiculous results just because I mistyped something.
3. How can I remove the search engines? I especially hate this Bing malware which is very difficult to remove. Each time it installed itself on my PC I had to search and manually remove all the traces from the registry. Unfortunately, it keeps crawling into my PC. I really hoped that sooner or later the anti-viruses would start removing it...
4. How can I open several windows? Normally I use 3-4 windows and each window would have 5-20 tabs dedicated to a particular subject. If I can't do it with SafeZone, that it is no use for me.
5. How can I remove Shortcuts icon and set Home page to a blank page? I went to Settings > ON STARTUP > Open a specific page or set of pages > Set pages > about:blank . Now if I open a new window I get a blank page, but if I open new tab (pressing that plus sign), it always opens a page with the shortcuts and a search bar.
6. Is is possible to remove the Shortcuts completely? I don't see big difference between the Shortcuts and Bookmarks. And, I see I can save all opened tabs in a Shortcuts folder, but can I save them on Bookmarks menu or Bookmarks toolbar? If not, than can I copy Shortcuts folder into Bookmarks menu and Bookmarks toolbar?
