Every window, whether it's a pop-up or standard window, will show you an address bar, helping to block malicious sites from emulating trusted sites.Clean up cached pages, passwords, form data, cookies, and history, all from a single window.
This enhanced safeguard gives you additional protection against malware by helping to prevent malicious websites from manipulating flaws in other websites or causing you to download undesired content or software. Internet Explorer 7 helps to prevent the script on webpages from interacting with content from other domains or windows.This opt-in filter is updated several times per hour using the latest security information from Microsoft and several industry partners. This filter warns you about and helps to protect you against potential or known fraudulent websites, and blocks the sites if appropriate.You can easily display certificate and privacy detail information with a single click on the Security Status bar. Phishing Filter notifications, certificate names, and the gold padlock icon also appear next to the address bar for better visibility.
The Address Bar changes to green for websites bearing new High Assurance certificates, indicating the site owner has completed extensive identity verification checks.
A single click on the icon allows you to preview and subscribe to the RSS feed if you want-so you're automatically notified as content is updated. Internet Explorer 7 automatically detects RSS feeds on sites and illuminates an icon on the toolbar.Your Favorites Center expands when needed, and can be anchored in place for even easier access. Get quick and easy access to your Favorites, Tab Groups, Browsing History, and RSS Feed subscriptions.You can easily choose a provider from the dropdown list or add more providers. Web searches using your favorite search provider can now be entered into a search box within the toolbar, eliminating the clutter of separate toolbars.Print options also include adjustable margins, customizable page layouts, removable headers and footers, and an option to print only selected text. Internet Explorer 7 automatically scales a webpage for printing, so the entire webpage fits on your printed page.A redesigned, streamlined interface maximizes the area of the screen that displays a webpage, so you see more of what you need, and less of what you don't.
A Tab Group can easily be set as the Home Page Group so the entire Tab Group opens every time Internet Explorer is launched. Tabs can be grouped and saved into logical categories, so you can open multiple tabs with a single click.Easily select and navigate through open tabs by displaying thumbnails of them all in a single window.Easily switch from one site to another through tabs at the top of the browser frame.