14 DAY TRIAL // With this in mind, the Redmond Company is pointing to IE Add-Ons website that hosts in excess of 400 add-ons. And while the IE Add-Ons website still invites users to download and try IE7 Beta, it does feature some excellent add-ons, free and designed for IE7.
Windows Defender is at the top of the must have add-ons list underscoring the necessity for safety and security. Windows Defender beta 2, delivered free, enables protection against pop-ups, slow performance and security threats caused by malware.
IESpell is a browser extension that permits spell-checking and dictionary lookup to text-input web forms. Inline Search is designed to enhance the search capabilities of Internet Explorer 7 by highlighting text on a web page to correspond to the query introduced into a search bar.
Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon and Trailfire enable anything from sharing links to discover new websites and to leave electronic notes on individual web pages.
Fiddler and the IE Developer Toolbar address web developers. "Fiddler is a general purpose debugging proxy, giving developers complete control of all the HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. The IE Developer Toolbar enables DOM exploration and modification, viewing of DOM element details, and has built in HTML, CSS, WAI, and RSS validators," stated Microsoft.
And of course that the latest Shockwave and Flash player could not have been missing from the list. 1-Click Answers and the Windows Live Toolbar provide access to dictionary and encyclopedia, maps, weather, and news.
"In the 24x7 news world, RSS helps you manage the surge of Internet news and information. The built-in support for RSS in IE7 enables web-based RSS-aggregators like Feed Demon by Newsgator and Bloglines to synchronize directly with the RSS store on your computer. When you install these add-ons, the RSS feeds you subscribe to within IE7 will automatically be made available to your web-based aggregation sites," added the IE7 team.
Windows Live Writer wasn't left out of the picture, delivering compose, edit, save and publish capabilities from a WYSIWYG interface.