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MOST WINDOWS users simply don't bother to install another third party web browser and just use what comes with the OS. IE7Pro brings comfort to those suffering from Firefox-envy by bringing some of the power-user features and expandability reserved until not long ago for Firefox.
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An article by CW earlier this year highlighted the fact that Firefox adoption at corporations doesn't match its popularity with home users. The causes can be many: inflexible corporate tech support policies, the use of Active-X based in-house applications and never underestimate the fear of the unknown. Whatever the case might be for someone sticking with - or forced to - MS IE, this power user's dream brings some of Firefox' bells and whistles to the Microsoft engine.

A cure for Firefox-envy
IE7Pro is an add-on for Internet Explorer, not a browser replacement. It's the work of a "virtual" firm, a team of programmers spread around the world and ironically headed by Faniel Fang, a former team leader at open sauce firm TurboLinux. The lead programmer, Chris Li also has open source experience as he claims to have developed, "the first open source intelligent input method for Windows".

"User-scripts": Greasemonkey style plaintext scripts, for IE
Basically what it does is replace every IE add-on you can imagine, and brings the same functionality as several Firefox extensions. It also brings something very similar to Greasemonkey user scripts to modify web pages in the browser, basically allowing one to "extend" web sites with functionality beyond what webmasters intended.
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In short
It will not make Internet Explorer suddenly open source, cross-platform, or community supported. It won't make the MSIE engine loved by CSS web designers, or make you part of a rebel movement trying to change the web. It won't also add a full fledged E-mail application like SeaMonkey, but at least you can enjoy some of the tricks and expandability of the Mozilla browsers atop the default Windows browser, with all its defects and virtues.

Being able to use MS Internet Explorer without hating it every minute is one big plus. Since it's a piece of proprietary software and not open source, it loses one beer and gets a score of eight. µ

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