Internet Explorer
Version: 7
Downloads Count: 46,258
License Type: Free
Price: Free
Date Added: May 15, 2006
Operating Systems: Windows XP
Author: Microsoft
- BearShare 1,183,752
- Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (SP1) 302,822
- Adobe Reader 236,478
- Netscape 221,511
- Firefox 219,783
Editor's Review of Internet Explorer
You may think you know Internet Explorer, but Version 7 is a different beast entirely from the IE you probably are using today. This new iteration of the world's dominant browser brings in a number of features long since taken for granted by alternative browser users, such as tabbed browsing, a toolbar-integrated search box, and limited RSS support.
Version 7 also has a much more compact and streamlined interface than its predecessor, with a strong emphasis on dedicating as much of the window as possible to the displayed Web site. And there are a number of security upgrades, like a new anti-phishing filter.
There are a couple of minor RSS tweaks, also. You can choose to refresh all your feeds at once manually, and you can globally mark everything as read.
Read our head-to-head comparison of IE7 versus Firefox 2.0. --Ramon McLeod and Erik Larkin


