When you thought you might not see another version of Internet Explorer on this side of the next ice age, Microsoft comes into the world with a whole new version of its all-powerful browsing application.

For so long that many web users have been tired of waiting for Microsoft to update their technology and looked elsewhere for Firefox.

Now, the great and bad king of the world of navigators is not in the mood to see his crown wither, but can he do enough to win back his detractors?

For starters, the new simplified interface is definitely an improvement.

Essentially, Microsoft removed the menu bar and hid all the tools and functions in a set of thumbnails, placed delicately in the upper right corner of the interface.

This allows you to view pages in a very large viewing area. Finally, IE decided to support tabbed browsing. It has a new tab with an open tab, in addition to an ingenious Quick Tab button, which opens thumbnails of all the tabs open on a screen and, unlike Firefox, IE has 7 close buttons on all tabs. truth.

You can even save groups of tabs as your home page, so that everyone starts at startup. We also appreciate the print preview, which adapted the page to your article 7 and improved the way you integrate RSS. When you find a website that supports RSS, the icon on the toolbar turns orange.

Click on it and you will be taken to a page that reveals all the feeds on that site. Click the Subscribe to this feed link to add it to your favorites.

You can also sign up by clicking on the small star icon on the left. However, unlike Firefox, there is no drop-down list for all items in a feed.

The favorite mall, opened by clicking on the big star icon, is divided into favorites, feeders and history.

Security is usually one of the typical weaknesses of IE.

In addition to a pop-up blocker, version 7 also offers an anti-phishing filter. To try it out, we opened up known phishtank phishing sites. To our disappointment, the filter did not report any more. The strength of IE 7 may not be phishing, but the browser includes at least SSL 2 security protocols.

0 and 3.0 and TLS 1.0, as well as Firefox.

Despite all its improvements, IE is still far from perfect. Like Firefox, IE does not pass the Acid2 test and does not support the latest standards.

We found that IE slowed down and dragged the opening of new tabs, the tools section and the application of new settings. You can add a large number of providers and search bar add-ons on the Microsoft website, but they are still much smaller than the Mozilla Firefox extensions.

In addition, IE 7 is really limited to those with XP SP2 and, for some reason, it is necessary to disable the antivirus and restart the computer to install it correctly (function () {('review-app-page-desktop)' );});