Supercharge Internet Explorer with IE7Pro

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Supercharge Internet Explorer with IE7Pro

by Brad Linder May 9th 2007

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.

[via Vecosys]

Tags: IE7Pro, internet explorer, internet explorer 7, InternetExplorer, InternetExplorer7

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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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