Microsoft tries to compete with its Windows Marketplace against the add-on dominance of Firefox. The main difference between add-ons that you find on the Marketplace and those that you find on the Mozilla website is that some Marketplace add-ons are not free.
This articles looks only at add-ons that are freely available on the marketplace website. I will mention Firefox add-ons that provide you with the same functionality if available as Firefox users may benefit from the listing as well because of it.
Most of the add-ons that can be downloaded from the Windows Marketplace for Internet Explorer are actually toolbars. I would estimate that about 50% of all add-ons are toolbars.
Note: Microsoft has removed the Windows Marketplace listings for the Internet Explorer add-ons. Most add-ons are no longer available. The new website over at IEGallery lists a couple of add-ons though that you may be interested in.
Additionally, Internet Explorer 7 is no longer supported by Microsoft.
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Interesting that IE is barely trying to get into being useable. Some items should be default honestly. Like sessions, mouse gestures, and some of the other ones. But hey it’s Microsoft yet again late on being useable. Opera has a lot of those features built-in, (which is why I use it). Anyways good post.
IeSpell is one of the best 3rd party addons for IE.
IE is always one or two steps behind Firefox :)
http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/details.aspx?view=info&itemid=3390711#productSpecs
Live Tv Add-on!
I would use Firefox if it would keep bookmarks from one session to the next, but it does not on my x64 Vista.
Looks like Windows Marketplace is a dead cause now… it just appears to be pushing everyone towards the microsoft store area.