Internet Explorer comes equipped with the same technique as firefox that allows users to create addons and offer them for download on a site that was specially created for this purpose by Microsoft. Ieaddons is the name of the site and looks like a typical slow-loading Microsoft website. Add-Ons are categorized in the four categories Security, Time Savers, Browsers and Entertainment.
Each category has some subcategories that finally contain the links to the add-ons. Many of the add-ons listed are not free, you should enable the freeware only option if you would like to view only freeware add-ons. As an example, the privacy subcategory of security has 39 entries, if you choose only freeware add-ons the list is reduced to 14.
Microsoft introduced a rating system and comments system for their add-ons website, make sure you read the comments before you install an add-on.
There are of course not that many add-ons available at the moment, the list surely grows with time. I dislike the fact that freeware and commercial products are in that list, would love a similar system to the mozilla system with only freeware add-ons listed.
It is still a nice idea to take a look at the add-ons and install and test some of them.. I stick with firefox nevertheless.
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