I’m not using Internet Explorer 7 at all but I know some guys who like it so much that they might ditch Firefox for it. The new Internet Explorer 7 has basically the same functionality and expandability as Firefox. You can download add-ons for Internet Explorer 7 to add functions to it. The Windows Marketplace lists more than 550 add-ons for Internet Explorer 7. The major difference that I can see is that Microsoft offers free and commercial add-ons for Internet Explorer 7 while I do not know of a single Firefox add-on that is commercial. (correct me if I’m wrong)
IE7 pro is one of those add-ons that everyone can download for free from its own website or the Windows Marketplace. It adds six new features to Internet Explorer 7, those are: Ad Filter, Super Drag and Drop, Mouse Gestures, Save Page to Image, Quick Switch Proxy and Enhanced Tabbed Browsing Capabilities. Save Page to Image is a very interesting add-on. It makes it possible to save the page as an image and choose from various image formats including jpg and png.
The Ad Filter should be useful for all Internet Explorer 7 users as well and Enhanced Tabbed Browsing Capabilities add eight new functions to it like hiding the search bar, enabling crash recovery and opening new tabs from the address bar.
I never used Mouse Gestures and think that this is a pretty useless feature but some guys seem to like it. Super Drag and Drop is very much like Super Drag and Go, the Firefox add-on. The only difference is that the Internet Explorer 7 add-on can’t save images by dragging them some inches.
Internet Explorer 7 users should take a look at IE7 pro and test it for a while. It is a free add-on and can be uninstalled without problems if you feel that you do not need the functionality.
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