European users of Internet Explorer are being given the choice of 12 browsers as part of Microsoft’s deal with the European Competition Commission – I wasn’t aware of over half of them – there’s the three obvious ones, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox then there’s Safari Apple’s browser and Opera the browser on Nintendo’s Wii and also on many mobile phones.

This still leaves seven more these are Avant, FlashPeak SlimBrowser, Flock, GreenBrowser, K-Meleon, Maxthon and Sleipnir.

So I’ve decided to give all 12 of them a week’s trial starting with Avant.