Internet Explorer 7 beta

Perhaps the most noticeable thing about the new-look IE 7 is that the top menu bars dont look anything like earlier versions of IE. Or, for that matter, any other Microsoft programs, with its menu bar thats two levels down from the applications t

A closer look reveals that the second level of the top of the browser is, ala Firefox, where IE displays tabbed Web sites.

On the right of the new top display is, straight from the Firefox design, the new Toolbar Search Box.

The new toolbar itself is quite different beyond its new organization and additional functionality. The toolbar icon button are much smaller and one, the reload button, is gone completely.

Microsoft will automatically check if a site youre visiting is a phishing site… if you let it check the sites youre visiting against its hosted phishing site listing.

If you do elect to use this feature, the browser displays in yellow on the new Security Status Bar that this site may not be trustworthy.

If the site is a known phishing site, the browser displays a red warning and suggests that you not continue on to it. You may, however, opt to continue on your way.

IE also finally supports RSS feeds.

The resulting display presents the RSS view of a site. At this point in its development, IE cant act as an RSS aggrevator and display multiple RSS feeds at once.