Internet explorer on its own is pretty drab and functionless compared to a fully modded FireFox. Here are some great add-ons to really spruce up internet explorer and make it far more capable.
Yoono
Yoono is a great internet explorer add-on that lets you stay connected will all your social networks, at once. The Yoono interface tucks away neatly to the side of the Internet Explorer window from where you can log into multiple social networks (Facebook, MySpace and more) and instant messengers (Yahoo messenger, Windows messenger, Google talk and more) and see your friends’ status, chat with them and update your own status (possible to update your status on multiple networks at once). You can also share content you’re viewing easily with your social networks as there is an integrated share button on the interface. Real great time saver as you don’t have to log into multiple sites or open up several instant messenger windows. Click here to visit the download page.
Socialize easier in FireFox with Yoono
WOT
WOT (web of trust) is a very helpful internet explorer add-on that serves to protect you from online scams, identity theft, unreliable shopping sites and internet attacks. WOT icons will appear next to Google search results, Wikipedia and Digg links with indicators to warn you of potential threats. Green icons signify a safe site to visit, orange tells you to proceed with caution and red tells you to stop and run in the opposite direction as fast as possible. A huge WOT community gives safety ratings for 22 million sites and updates are made every half an hour. A guardian angel in the world wide web. Click here to visit the download page.
Surf safer with WOT
InfoAxe
This awesome internet explorer add-on lets you save your internet history (details of every page you’ve visited) online so you can access and search it from any computer you’re on. Create an InfoAxe account online and install the toolbar. A “record” button on the toolbar, if activated, saves details of every page you visit and stores them on your online account. Say you log in to another computer. To access your history you just need to log into your InfoAxe account and view it there. A personal internet history search bar lets you find your desired page faster and a book marking button on the toolbar saves links to a dedicated page in your account for easy access from anywhere. Click here to visit the download page. Click here to visit the download page
Save internet history with infoaxe
FlashCatch
Every browser should have a flash video downloader and FlashCatch serves that purpose nicely. This add-on for internet explorer instantly detects videos on popular sites such as YouTube, Break, eBaums and CNN and lets you download them on to your computer usually as a .flv file. Save your favourite videos and watch them offline with a flash video player or any internet browser. FlashCatch does not convert flash files into other formats though. You will need to use a .flv file converter to do that. Click here to visit the download page
Download videos from Youtube with FlashCatch
PDF Download
PDF Download is an internet explorer add-on that simplifies interaction with PDF files on the internet tremendously. It lets you easily convert PDF files to html format for faster downloading and viewing and also converts web pages to PDF format for easy saving, sharing and printing. Click here to visit the download page
Interact with PDF files easier
IE7 Pro
This popular internet explorer add-on offers a variety of helpful features (despite the name, it does work for IE 8). You can interact with tabs better; double click to close tabs, open new tab from address bar, hide search bar and more. Mouse gestures are enabled so common tasks can such as go back, go forward, open/close tabs, print and more can be executed with a swipe of your mouse pointer. A crash recovery feature automatically restores pages after a browser crash, spell check, and there is even a feature to save web pages into popular image formats. There are many other helpful features with this add-on which you can check out. Click here to visit the download page.
Customize internet explorer
Enterra Download Manger
A download manager add-on that fits snugly in the Internet Explorer window. It allows downloads from FTP and HTTP servers, supports multiple session downloads (download acceleration), resume downloads and more. Click here to visit the download page.
A download manager for Internet Explorer
IE Sessions
This add-on easily lets you save the current state of opened tabs in Internet Explorer so you can load that “session” quickly any time you open Internet Explorer later. Helpful for people that routinely open the same tabs and visit the same sites. Unfortunately it only exports the session information to a format that only this application can read so you will need ie sessions on every computer you use to be able to read the file. Click here to visit the download page.
Save internet explorer sessions
Written by moshad27
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