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HydraBrowser: Is it possible to have too many browser tools?
Here are just a few of the things that set HydraBrowser apart from Internet Explorer:
- Tabbed toolbar navigation that displays a separate set of menu options and icons for Tools, Edit, Favorites & Sidebar, Security & Settings, Tools, and RSS
- A web gallery feature which lets you add thumbnailed bookmarks for pages you regularly visit to the navigation toolbar
- Integrated translation tools using Google or Babelfish
- Easy access to pop-up/ad-blocking settings as well as image, video, and sound blocking
- Built in backup utility for saving your HydraBrowser settings.
[via Online Tech Tips]




Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Richard said 12:36PM on 4-14-2008
The UI, whilst unpolished, looks better than IE7. I hope Microsoft base their UI design for IE8 on Office 2007.
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Quikboy said 7:53AM on 4-15-2008
I don't know. I really like IE7's simple interface. The bare basics don't take up a lot of screen space and I like working with that advantage.
Most other browsers (inc. this) take up a lot of unnecessary screen space. With some things, the bare basics don't need a fancy UI.
Microsoft actually was considering that, but I guess they skipped it for IE8, or they just didn't like it. It's comes from Paul Thurott, a tech enthusiast - http://www.winsupersite.com/images/reviews/ie8_ribbon_proto.jpg
lilpunk1302 said 10:23PM on 4-14-2008
Anyone else see the striking resemblance to Office 07...?(Mainly Word, but that's all i use so don't knwo about the rest of em)
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Quikboy said 7:53AM on 4-15-2008
Probably because it's based off of that UI.
Microsoft allows anyone to get a license to use the popular Office 2007 Interface, as long as it doesn't compete directly with Office. I thought it was rather nice of MS, instead of keeping it to themselves : http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/11/21/licensing-the-2007-microsoft-office-user-interface.aspx