Digital Streets

IE7Pro is a free add-on for Internet Explorer 7 that gives the browser a lot of great features and tweaks.  Some of these features are Webpage Capturer, User Scripts, Mouse Gesture, Spell Check, and Proxy Switcher.

Go to http://ie7pro.com/ to grab the executable.  Install the add-on.  During installation, you will  need to select which additional tasks you want IE7Pro to perform.  I selected all but the change in homepage to get the most out of the add-on.

Once it is finished, fire up Internet Explorer 7.  You will have two new additions to the interface.

1. The IE7Pro button on the toolbar.  Clicking this will take you straight to the add-on’s Preferences.

   

2. The IE7Pro button on the status bar.

   

   Right-clicking it will bring up the following menu:

   

Once you open the preferences via either pathway (or using Ctrl+F7 on your keyboard), you will be presented with a slew of options you can set (or not).

One of the features I was glad to see was the Greasemonkey-like User Scripts platform.  This allows for greater customization of your web browsing experience.  The add-on comes with some of these user scripts, but you can get even more from iescripts.org.

You can also take snapshots of a web page by right-clicking on the status bar icon and selecting Save Current Tab As Image To and choosing either File or Clipboard.

This add-on gives you a vast amount of flexibility in customizing your IE7 browser to better fit your browsing needs.  Definitely worth checking out.

Tabbed browsing is a great feature, but it can get out of hand.  You can easily have a dozen tabs populated in no time.  You could take the time to close all of those tabs individually, which could end up taking a while.  Better yet, you can close all of the tabs, except for the current one, in just a few clicks of your mouse.  Here’s how:

1. Select the tab you wish to keep open so that it becomes the current tab.

   

2. Right-click the current tab.
3. Select Close Other Tabs from the context menu.

   

All other tabs will close and you will be left with only the current tab.