Microsoft has announced several new features in Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 7.


Microsoft has announced several new features for Internet Explorer 7, features that will be present in Beta 2.

Some of the features:

IE 7 supports all manner of search engines.

The IE team says they are working with Amazon to support OpenSearch in IE 7. OpenSearch is a collection of technologies, all built on top of popular open standards, to allow content providers to publish their search results in a format suitable for syndication.

IE 7 will even parse sites without OpenSearch RSS feeds by parsing the HTML.

Microsoft has alos announced a QuickTabs feature, which displays live thumbnails by the tabs in the browser.

Microsoft is also Making ActiveX opt-in, disabling all (even trusted) ActiveX plugins by default, and giving the user control over when and how they run.

There will also be a web developer toolbar for both IE6 and IE7.

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