Filed under: Internet, Windows, Browser Tips
Supercharge Internet Explorer with IE7Pro
by Brad Linder May 9th 2007 at 7:00PM
Some might say the best way to improve your web browsing experience with Internet Explorer 7 would be to download Firefox or Opera (hey, I didn't say it, "some" said it!). But if you've got you heart set on IE7 for one reason or another, you might want to check out IE7Pro, a plugin that adds a whole bunch of nifty features. Here are a few of our favorites:
- Tabbed browsing enhancements like double click to close a tab, open new tabs from the address bar, and hide the search bar
- Mouse gestures: right-click and drag your mouse up, down, left and right to navigate the current page or move to the next or previous pages
- Ad Blocker
- A crash recovery feature that restores all the pages you had open when your browser crashed
- Save pages to a text file
- Greasemonkey-like IE7Pro Script for adding new functions via scripts.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
eBusiness said 12:28AM on 5-10-2007
I'm glad I'm first to comment because I've already used the plug in and let me say it helps, but you would still be better served by using Firefox.
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Iggy Sol said 7:48AM on 5-10-2007
I use Firefox at home, but at work we're forced to use IE. IE7Pro is an acceptable substitute when you can't get the real thing. Kudos to the developers. I have used it for a couple of months and have never had any problems. The tab features alone, especially the crash recovery, are worth the download.
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Fergy said 1:46PM on 5-10-2007
Nice feature list, however does appear that it's simply copying the best of firefox's add-ons! I currently have all those features, tho the separate add-on downloads are a bit of a pain.
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iMike said 1:46PM on 5-10-2007
Hi,
Although it is nice tool, let me warn you that it is far from perfect.
I have been using it for a while (some months) and although it does some nice things it have SERIOUS performance issues. I am a heavy user of tabs, openning and closing a few ones (no more than 20), sometimes when I open a new tab (no mattering how many tabs I have already open) it crash IE without any message.
This issue is starting to get annoying and I am serously considering disabling IE7Pro.
Regards,
Mike
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dale said 3:06PM on 5-10-2007
If you want a real browser that can handle many tabs, go with maxthon. FF hasn't been a great browser since version 0.9 and it's only the extensions that keep it as my secondary browser (opera is a better browser than FF). IE7 seems to have the same problems with memory and many tabs that FF does and IE7Pro helps make it more usable.
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Steve Goodwin said 5:38PM on 5-10-2007
Why bother - If you want an excellent IE based browser, Maxthon has done all this for years.
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