The best Internet Explorer add-ins
A browser by itself is a poor thing, letting you browse the Web, but little
else. To get the most out of the Web, you need add-ins that give your browser
plenty of extra features.
Firefox is well known for its plug-ins, but there aren't as many available
for Internet Explorer. Still, you needn't feel left out in the cold. In fact,
there are plenty of add-ins for IE as well.
In this article, I'll clue you in to my favorite Internet Explorer add-ins.
I'll ignore the obvious ones, such as the Google
Toolbar, Yahoo Toolbar
or Windows Live
Toolbar, because you probably already know about them. Instead, I'll concentrate
on lesser-known ones that do everything from killing annoying ads, to restoring
crashed browsing sessions, to grabbing video from sites like YouTube
and more. Better yet, everyone one of them is free.
Quero Toolbar
Tired of being besieged by ads, including exceedingly annoying Flash ads? Then
you'll want the free Quero Toolbar,
which includes a very good and customizable ad blocker. It will block just about
any ad you'll come across, including banner ads, Flash animations and many others,
including Google ads.
You can turn it on and off, of course, but better yet, you can customize it
for individual sites, allowing ads from some sites and banning them from others.
Better still, you can fine-tune it to a remarkable degree, for example, by allowing
Google ads and banner ads from a particular site, but banning Flash animations.
There's more to the Quero Toolbar as well, including a nice inline search feature
that jumps straight to text on a page as you type in a term, the ability to
search for any word on a Web page by selecting and right-clicking it, and the
ability to quickly resize windows. And plenty of included shortcut keys means
that mouse-haters need to reach for their rodent less frequently than before.
IE7Pro
For an even more comprehensive add-in, including ad blocking and much more,
get the free IE7Pro. It's
a remarkable add-in and has features that rival the best of Firefox plug-ins.
Like the Quero Toolbar, it will block Flash ads as well as other ads, although
it doesn't give you quite as many fine-grained controls over blocking or allowing
specific kinds of ads on a site-by-site basis.
The program truly shines in the way it handles tabs, and this may be its best
feature. If IE7 crashes for some reason -- and as we all know, there are plenty
of reasons why it crashes -- the program will automatically restore all the
tabs that were open at the
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