new Internet Explorer 7

on a lighter note, i just installed the new Internet Explorer 7 today. i really like it--- it's such a huge improvement over the old one.

The best things that I've discovered in only 15 minutes of playing with it are:

Tabbed Browsing-- it makes it much easier to manage multiple browser windows.. this is important for me since at the end of the day i usually have at least 8 or 9 IE windows open

More Screen Real Estate-- the layout is much better. the design of the browser allows for the toolbars to take up less room, yet offer more functions

Search Bar-- I use the Google Toolbar, because I'm happy with it and like a lot of the functions (especially a handy English-Spanish translation thing that automatically translates anything that my mouse is pointing on into Spanish), so I thought that having ANOTHER search box would be overkill. But it isn't. You can easily search from multiple search engines, and add your own. For example, I just added a IMDb search engine to the list, and it was remarkably simple to do.

i'll be saving time like crazy now.