May
14
2008
ie7pro
Author: Steve Martin
I am not the kind of person that installs a whole lot of plugins on an Internet browser but I have found one that is a must for anyone running Internet Explorer 7. It is called ie7pro and puts several things into IE that should have been in there in the beginning. You can download it from http://www.ie7pro.com. It is free and quick to install.
It looks like this at the bottom of your IE7 browser window (the little ‘e’):
To change any of the features of ie7pro, you simply go into the tools menu of Internet Explorer 7 and choose “IE7Pro Preferences”. There you will be able to set and change any of the many features of ie7pro.
My first favorite feature is the “Crash Recovery” feature. I don’t know about you, but my Internet Explorer browser does crash from time to time. Either it dies on it’s own and closes or it freezes up and I have to force it to close. Well, ie7pro remembers all of the tabs that you had open before the crash. So, the next time you open Internet Explorer, it will ask you if you want to restore your previous session. I generally keep at least 10 to 20 tabs open all the time in Internet Explorer and it is a major pain to even remember what I had open let alone the time to go through and re-open them all up again. with ie7pro crash recovery turned on, I simply say “yes” after I re-open IE and all of my tabs open back up again right where I left off.
My second favorite feature is “refresh current tab”. It is pretty self explanatory but basically you choose a tab that you want to auto-refresh, go into the “refresh current tab”, and choose an interval from 5 seconds to 30 minutes. ie7pro will then refresh that particular tab according to the interval you set. This works great for sites that log you out after a certain amount of inactivity. I have several sites I use frequently that do this but with ie7pro, I never get logged out anymore. The refresh makes the site think that I am still actively using their site and keeps me logged in.
There is also an ad filter that will filter out a lot of the ads you see on different web sites. I have not turned this feature on simply because sometimes those ads are very worthwhile and actually help me save money on things I buy anyway. But for those that prefer fewer ads, you could turn it on and skip a lot of the advertisements.
Being a free product, I highly doubt there is any tech support for the product but I haven’t run into a need for it either. The software works as promised. So, if any of the features sound useful to you, check it out.
