Browser Wars Week One: Internet Explorer

Welcome to the first week of Browser Wars!  This week, we’ll be looking at the features of Microsoft’s bundled Internet Explorer.

Internet Explorer 7 provides improved navigation through tabbed browsing, web search right from the toolbar, advanced printing, easy discovery, reading and subscription to RSS feeds, and much more.

-Microsoft

Overview: A huge step from IE6, the previous version, the 7th version in this series of browsers offers a new, streamlined interface, which improves managing favorites and accessing other tasks that you have to complete often.

Favorites: Simply click the star icon for a drop down list of your favorites menu.  This new, changed version allows you to view your favorite websites, RSS feeds, and even your recent history.  This streamlined edition doesn’t force you to go through a complicated series of drop down lists to find your favorites, feeds, and your history.

Buttons: Simple Home and Email buttons allow you to quickly go to your homepage, or even better, your email.  With this, you can register on a forum or chat system, and simply click the button to navigate to your email host.

Tabbed Browsing: You can easily browse one site to the next through the tabs at the utmost part of the browser frame.  You can simply view all browser pages at the same time by clicking on the “thumbnail” view button.   One feature specific to IE7 is the feature to favorite groups of tabbed websites.  In this way, you can easily open up many genre-specific sites at the same time.

More Features: Internet Explorer 7 also hoists a variety of other features, including an instant search box (pretty regular these days) and advanced printing, which lets you basically edit what you’re printing in a in-depth way.  Also, simple RSS feed tracking make the free pack-in a versatile browser.

Add-ons…  although not as diverse and as many in numbers as Firefox has obtained over its life, Internet Explorer still holds its own, and allows the user to customize their browser experience to increase functionality.

~ by alexbader on September 30, 2008.