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HydraBrowser: Is it possible to have too many browser tools?

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We love software that packs a ton of tools and features into a single package. Call it Swiss Army Knife addiction. But it's just possible that HydraBrowser might go too far. At its most basic level, HydraBrowser is a web browser based on Internet Explorer, which means it will user whatever version of Internet Explorer you've got installed on your PC as its rendering engine. But HydraBrowser packs a ton of tools that you won't find in IE7 unless you spend the next week customizing it with add-ons.

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.
Overall, HydraBrowser is choc full of useful features. And you can minimize the toolbars and sidebars which take up so much screen real estate in the image above. But overall, we're a little overwhelmed with the application. It suffers from a bit of Flock syndrome, in that there are so many tools you might never need that you kind of wonder why you'd ever want to use this browser instead of IE7 or Firefox.

[via Online Tech Tips]

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