Tab List is another useful tab-navigation tool. Click a button, and it displays all of your opened tabs in a list, with a check box next to the live one. Click one you want to visit, and off you go.

You can also save groups of tabs as a Favorite. Use this feature to open groups of news sites you like to visit, or sites related to a special interest, such as digital photography. All you need to do is open all the sites in separate tabs, then save them as a tab group in the same way as you'd save a single favorite. Then you can later re-open them all at once.

Superb RSS handling

What really sets IE7 apart from competing browsers is its impressive RSS support. In fact, IE7 may well bring RSS to the masses. Its built-in RSS reader is simple enough to use so that those who have never heard of RSS can easily use it, yet sophisticated enough that it may make you throw away your dedicated RSS reader.

Subscribing to a feed is as simple as it gets. When you visit a Web site with an RSS feed, the small RSS button on the toolbar lights up orange. Click it and select a feed to read it, and if you want to subscribe, click "Subscribe to this feed." As with Favorites, you can save feeds to folders.