I think the Opera development team should be proud of their Speed Dial idea because it is now available for most major browsers, and even as a standalone website. Firefox was the second browser to get it via an extension, and now with the Beta version of IE7Pro you can get it in Internet Explorer 7!
Instead of blatantly calling the feature Speed Dial, IE7Pro has opted for the name "Easy Homepage". You’ll find the option in the right-click menu of the IE7Pro icon in the Status Bar, and after that you can bookmark the address if you want it as your true homepage.
That’s not all that the new Beta entails though:
- EasyHome added
- Hotkey full customizable now.
- Single IE instance support
- Tab session restore function added
- Can use hotkey to dupliate tabs.
- Plugin system improved
- Plugin auto-install support
- DEP problem solved
- Inline search improved
- PRO_setValue/PRO_getValue problem solved
Those are a lot of great improvements, but that’s not even half of what IE7Pro does. It can also do inline spell checking, add the current weather to the Status Bar, restore your tab session, and much more. I don’t think that I would ever use Internet Explorer without IE7Pro because it adds a lot of features that make the browser a lot more functional.
Download IE7Pro 1.0.1 Beta and leave your feedback [MajorGeeks has a download mirror]
It’s a shame they didn’t make it use the Gecko (or any decent) rendering engine, or I might show some interest. For me, anything else IE has added to it is merely regrettable, as it’s made inherantly useless by the browser it’s for.
I don’t think we’ll be seeing Gecko in Internet Explorer anytime soon, although that would be quite interesting.
This Strengthens my belief that those guys from Norway are the true innovators in the browser arena. the rest just follow.
I agree with you Tinhed…it really makes you wonder what their next big feature will be.
This speed dial for IE is really great. I stopped using Firefox and that was the one program I really missed. I hope on future updates we can set the number of speed dial boxes instead of just having 9. I really only need about 6. Nice to see these kinds of addons coming to IE.
IE 8 Beta has come over and its even faster than firefox and lighter than all of its earlier versions…microsoft is catching up..