Simple and straightforward, with lots of features (Microsoft Internet Explorer 7)

Member Name: LupusEvolve

Product:	Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
Date:	14/12/08 (34 review reads)
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Advantages: Tabs, search box, straightforward user interface

Disadvantages: Limited choice in add-ons/toolbars/etc

Microsoft Internet Explorer is perhaps the most widely used internet browser in the world. And for good reason!

There were huge changes between IE6 and IE7, and they were all a step in the right direction.

Firstly, IE7 introduced tabs. Tabs are extremely useful, especially to someone like me. They allow you to have several web pages open in just one browser. This is really helpful, as I tend to do a lot of research on the internet - so I can have google in one tab, wikipedia in another, etc etc etc!

The entire user interface for IE7 is actually very simple and straightforward. So nothing is hard to find, and you can hide menus/buttons that you don't use very often, so it's also customisable to your preferences.

There is also the favourites button, which also has tabs for RSS feeds and your internet browser history. There is a search box integrated straight into the browser interface, which you can set to search with various different search engines. You can also specify to have more than one home page, so that each web page will open in a different tab when you open the browser.

I think that's about it! Other than that, Microsoft IE7 does just about everything else you would expect it too. It also has a few add-ons, toolbars, etc, but I think that Firefox still leads the way is this regard.

Summary: My overall favourite internet browser

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