gHacks technology news » ie7 addon http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:18:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Add Find as you type to Internet Explorer http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/23/add-find-as-you-type-to-internet-explorer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/23/add-find-as-you-type-to-internet-explorer/#comments Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:54:50 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/23/add-find-as-you-type-to-internet-explorer/ The firefox Find as you type search is pretty useful; It’s faster than the normal search box and it does not obscure part of the website with a search box. Internet Explorer users can now enhance their browser with a Find as you type add-on for Internet Explorer which adds this functionality to it.

The Find as you type add-on is available for Internet Explorer 7 only. It supports both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems and can be downloaded in four different languages which are German, English, Italian and Dutch. Make sure Internet Explorer is closed during installation.

Once installed you can access the new function by pressing CTRL + f as usual. Instead of opening a search box a small search bar will open instead waiting for input. The add-on will start finding matching strings once the first character has been entered in the search bar.

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I was not able to find some sort of configuration for the add-on though. As you all know it is possible to use the find as you type feature in Firefox without having to press CTRL + f before. Would be nice if this could be added to this add-on for Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 as well.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/23/add-find-as-you-type-to-internet-explorer/feed/ 1 Add-Ons for Internet Explorer 7 http://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/21/add-ons-for-internet-explorer-7/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/21/add-ons-for-internet-explorer-7/#comments Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:17:43 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/21/add-ons-for-internet-explorer-7/ 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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