You wanted it easier and safer Only when you thought you wouldn’t see another version of Internet Explorer beyond the next Ice Age, Microsoft hit the world with its all new version of its powerful browser app.
It’s been around for so long that many network users are tired of waiting for Microsoft to update their technology and search elsewhere, mostly in the direction of Firefox.
Now the great and evil king of the world of navigators is not happy to see the crown pushed back, but can he do enough to win back his offspring?
First of all, the new streamlined interface is definitely an improvement.
Microsoft basically removed the menu bar and hid all the tools and features in neat little icons in the upper right corner of the interface.
It allows you to see the pages in a very large viewing area. IE finally decided to support tabbed browsing. It includes a button to immediately open a new tab, as well as an ingenious Quick Tabs button that opens thumbnails of all open tabs on a single screen, and unlike Firefox, IE 7 actually has a button to close each. tab.
You can even save groups of tabs as a home page so they all start on startup. We also liked the preview tool, which personalizes your article 7 page and improves the way it integrates RSS. Whenever you come across a site that supports RSS, the toolbar icon turns its typical orange.
Click on it and you will be taken to a page that reveals all of the feeds on that website. Just click on an order for this presentation to add it to your favorites.
You can also order by clicking on the little star icon on the left. However, unlike Firefox, not all of the feed items are displayed in the drop-down list.
The Favorites Center, which you opened by clicking the Big Star icon, is divided into Favorites, Feeds, and Stories.
Security is generally one of the typical vulnerabilities of IE.
In addition to the blocking window, version 7 also offers a phishing filter. We have attempted to open the famous phishing sites published in Phishtank. Unfortunately, the filter did not recognize most of them. The phishing protection may not be valid in IE 7, but at least the browser includes SSL 2 security protocols.
0 and 3.0 as well as TLS 1.0, just like Firefox.
Despite all of its improvements, IE is still far from perfect. Like Firefox, IE fails the Acid2 test and doesn’t even support the latest standards.
We have found that IE lags and lags when it opens new tabs, the Tools tab, and goes to new settings. You can add a large number of search bar and add-on providers from Microsoft’s website, but there are still far fewer than Mozilla Firefox extensions.
Also, IE 7 is actually limited to those with XP SP2, and for some reason you have to disable your antivirus and restart your computer to install it properly (function () {(‘review-app-page-desktop’ );});