Phishing protection may not be IE 7’s strength but at least the browser incorporates security protocols SSL 2.Ġ and 3. To our disappointment, the filter failed to report most of them. To give it a try, we opened up known phishing sites published on Phishtank. Security is usually one of the characteristic weak spots of IE.Īpart from a pop-up blocker, version 7 also dishes out an anti-phishing filter. The Favorites Center, opened up by clicking on the big star icon, is divided into favourites, feeds and history. Unlike Firefox however, there’s no drop down view of each item in a feed. You can also subscribe by clicking on the small star icon on the left. Just click on the “subscribe to this feed” link to add it to your favourites. Whenever you come across a site that supports RSS, the icon in the toolbar will turn its characteristic orange.Ĭlick on it and you will be lead to a page that reveals all the feeds for that website. IE 7 has improved the way it integrates RSS. We also appreciated the print preview tool, which adjusts the page according to your paper size.

You can even save groups of tabs as your homepage so they all launch upon start-up. It includes a ‘New tab’ button for instant opening, plus an ingenious ‘Quick Tabs’ button, which opens up thumbnail previews of all your opened tabs in one screen and, unlike Firefox, IE 7 actually has a close button on each tab.

IE has also finally decided to support tabbed browsing. It allows you to see pages in a very large viewing space. Microsoft has basically stripped back the menu bar and hidden all of the tools and functions within a set of compact icons, placed subtly at the top-right of the interface. Now the big, bad king of the browser world is in no mood to see its crown wrestled away, but can it do enough to win back its deserters?įor starters, the new streamlined interface is definitely an improvement. It’s been so long in the making that many web users have got fed up with waiting for Microsoft to update its technology and have looked elsewhere – mainly in the direction of Firefox.

Just when you thought you wouldn’t see another version of Internet Explorer this side of the next ice age, Microsoft hits the world with a totally new release of its almighty browsing app.

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