eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Internet Explorer 7

After upgrading to Internet Explorer 7, users can choose to preset several key browser settings.

When we started IE 7 for the first time, the browser asked if we wanted to turn on the phishing filter.

When launching IE 7, we could choose from a variety of popular search engines to use in the browser.

Its possible to add nearly any sites search to the search bar in IE 7.

Caption: For longtime IE users unaccustomed to tabbed browsing, IE 7 provides information on how tabs work when the tabs are first opened.

The new Quick Tabs feature in IE 7 let us see thumbnails of all of our open tabs.

Like Firefox, IE 7 lets users save groups of tabs as favorites.

IE 7 provides lots of options for how tabbed windows are handled in the browser.

When users click on an RSS feed that they are thinking about subscribing to, IE 7 provides a detailed page with information on the feed.

Users can easily remove any or all details of their browsing history in IE 7.

We could choose to build custom settings for how IE 7 handles cookies.

Users can check up on any Web site that they think might be a phishing site.

When enabled, the phishing filters in IE 7 automatically check any site that is loaded.

Users can easily manage, disable or delete plug-ins, ActiveX controls and other browser add-ons in IE 7.

Looks like weve made a custom setting that IE 7 doesnt like.

All the warnings mean that IE 7 doesnt approve of our customized security settings.

If custom options make the browser unstable, users can activate a reset option to return IE 7 to default settings.