Must-Have Internet Explorer Add-on
One of the best reasons to use Mozilla Firefox instead of Microsoft Internet Explorer is Firefox’s easy add-on functionality. Firefox supports simple add-ons that bring additional features to the browser that you want. This customization makes Firefox fit like a glove with such add-ons as ad-blocking, drag & drop, mouse gestures, tab management and more.
Internet Explorer isn’t so friendly. Just try to find all those add-ons for IE, and you will be frustrated. However, there is one free add-on for Internet Explorer that does all of the above and more. It’s called IE7Pro, and it adds these features all in one shot: better tab management, drag & drop of text for easy searching and of links for opening in a new tab, mouse gestures that make navigation a breeze, crash recovery that remembers your open webpages when IE crashes, ad blocking that cleans those annoying ads off webpages, user scripts (like Firefox’s GreaseMonkey) that modify page behavior, spell checking of text entered into online forms, and more.
IE7Pro is not by Microsoft, but a third-party vendor. My hat’s off to these folks for their hard work; I just can’t live without IE7Pro in my Internet Explorer. It downloads quickly from the link above, installs seamlessly, and adds a small icon to your status bar at the bottom of the Internet Explorer window. Right-clicking this icon displays the menu with all of IE7Pro’s features. [EDIT: IE7Pro also works with Internet Explorer 8 and 9.]
Easy to install, easy to use; this is a definite must-have. And it’s free! Check it out, you won’t be disappointed.