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Hands-on Review: Internet Explorer 7
Published October 24th, 2006 in All Categories, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 7, Reviews
I’ve been using various betas of Internet Explorer 7 for a few weeks now and have formed an 
opinion or two. Is IE7 right for you? Here are a handful of thoughts based on my experience with the new browser.
# Anti-Phishing Alerts - This is going to be a huge help to millions of IE users who can’t tell the difference between paypal.com and paypa1.com. IE7 looks up every site you visit to see if it’s a phishing risk, and so far it’s correctly identified everything I’ve managed to throw at it as a scam site. There are allegedly other security improvements under the hood, too, but these are tough to analyze objectively. The notoriously evil ActiveX has largely been nerfed, however.
# Printing Repaired - Half the time, printing a web page with IE6 meant losing a few words off the right side of the page. That’s fixed in IE7, and it now works most of the time. Hands-on Review: Internet Explorer 7 : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech
