Despite increasing competition from Firefox, Internet Explorer remains the world’s most widely used Web browser. Web Worker Daily rounded up six essential tools designed to improve your IE productivity and efficiency. Take a gander at two of them:
- CG4IE. The CG4IE extension’s name stands for Customize Google for IE, which is exactly what it does. An open-source project, it lets you add many kinds of options to standard Google searches, including using Google Suggest to suggest words while you’re typing, adding result counters in search results, and more. Most usefully, when doing Google searches, you can use it to quickly get links from search engines other than Google. Here’s one to use all day long.
- IE Tab. Here’s an unusual extension: IE Tab is actually an extension for the Mozilla Firefox browser, but what it does is embed Internet Explorer in Firefox tabs. This is the fastest possible way for any web developer to see what pages will look like when rendered in Internet Explorer.
Great stuff! Whether you’re a full-time Internet Explorer user or a Firefox fan who runs it occasionally for compatibility reasons, you’re sure to find at least a few of these add-ons worth adding on. Got an IE tip of your own to share? Hit the Comments and share it!
