Today is a real challenge for Navigaweb: find at least 10 best extensions and add-ons for Internet Explorer . Undeniably, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are the most used browsers because, thanks to the extensions or add-ons, they allow you to implement applications and tools to be used on the websites you surf.
Internet Explorer, Microsoft's browser, unfortunately has never focused too much on addons and only recently, with Internet Explorer 9, has opened an extension gallery, which however remains rather sparse.
Internet Exporer 9 is an excellent browser, comparable to others and perhaps even better if taken alone.
Without extensions, however, it remains 10 steps behind Firefox and Chrome.
To try to dispel this IE taboo, we see 18 better extensions, also called add-ons or add-ons, for Internet Explorer 11 .
First of all we must underline an important function of Internet Explorer on Windows 7 8 and 10 (also because for XP there is no IE9).
All sites can be set for quick opening on the taskbar .
Some websites like Facebook, Twitter or other online applications, newspapers and social networks then implement quick links that appear by right clicking on the locked icon in the Windows taskbar.
The integration between the system and the browser is perhaps the best additional feature of Internet Explorer 11.
Many of these addons are no longer found because Microsoft has retired the Internet Explorer.r extension site
To find additional components to be installed on Internet Explorer you could go to the addon gallery site, in Italian.
The extensions for Internet Explorer are divided into various categories, with Jump List, Accelerators, Web Slices and Toolbar.
Accelerators are tools that can be used by pressing the right mouse button on web pages.
Web Slices are add-ons to add to the bookmarks bar and have a glance on the latest news or updates on a site or on a topic.
The toolbars are added as menu bars instead.
The best add-ons or extensions for Internet Explorer 8 and 9 are not found in the official gallery; these are mainly programs to be installed on Windows that integrate into the Microsoft browser and work from add-ons.
1) WOT
WOT is an acronym for 'Web of Trust' and represents the most useful tool for safe surfing on the internet, preventing visits to poor and unsafe sites.
Being a very popular tool based on user ratings, WOT is the most effective tool to know the reputation of websites from a security point of view.
2) Bing Toolbar, very useful for having shortcuts to the most important services on the internet such as Weather, Facebook and more.
3) ZoomInto
ZoomInto is an IE11 addon that allows you to zoom in on an image, crop it and save some part of it.
This tool is useful if you want to download a large image, to save only a part of it and to make quick changes.
4) Advanced IE History Bar
This handy add-on opens a side panel on the left side of the Internet Explorer browser window, which lists the history of the sites visited by the user.
The extension allows you to browse your history much faster and find the sites you visited previously by sorting them by URL, title, date and number of views.
7) Xmarks (no longer exists)
Xmarks is an extension that allows you to synchronize and backup your favorite sites so that they are stored on multiple computers.
Xmarks also has extensions for Firefox and Chrome so you can keep your bookmarks synced whatever browser you use.
8) Speckie
One of the best add-ons for Internet Explorer is the one that does the spelling check of what you write when filling forms or text fields on websites.
The spelling checker for Internet Explorer is automatic and in Italian and indicates when mistakes are made while typing.
9) Enterra Download Manager
Although the management of downloads on Internet Explorer 9 is very effective and improved, you can install this addon to improve downloads.
Enterra Download Manager is an innovative plug-in compatible with Microsoft Internet Explorer that makes it more efficient to download files. Enterra Download Manager add on is an easy to use multifunction toolbar that allows you to access files from FTP and HTTP server via the appropriate protocol.
10) Find on Facebook
This extension allows you to search for people and groups on Facebook, whatever web page you are visiting.
11) Share On Facebook
It is an accelerator for sharing links on Facebook quickly.
12) CleanPage
This addon is a mix between the famous Adblock and Print Friendly extensions and serves and cleans the web pages from the extra elements.
13) WebM Video
WebM for IE9 is the plugin to watch HTML5 streaming videos on Windows 7 and Windows XP.
Of the HTML5 plugin issue for Youtube and other video sites I spoke in another post.
14) Mouse Gestures
With this add-on you can use the mouse to draw shapes so as to execute web browser control commands through mouse gestures.
15) Chrome Frame (no longer supported)
The Google addon allows you to simulate browsing websites with Google Chrome from Internet Explorer.
See also the post: Two browsers in one, Chrome inside IE and Internet Explorer inside Chrome.
16) BugMeNot
One of the best add-ons for Internet Explorer is to find passwords and logins for websites with Bugmenot, so you can access them without registration.
17) LastPass
To keep all the passwords in the safe, synchronized and safe, protected by a main master password that will be the only one to remember, you can use the Lastpass program.
Lastpass is the add-on for all browsers, including Internet Explorer.
In this way the logins to the sites will be automatic and there will be no risk that some outsiders could steal the passwords.
About Lastpass and how to manage and store website passwords I wrote a guide.
Finally, I want to say that, on Internet Explorer you can use bookmarklets or buttons to add to the bookmarks bar.
The bookmarklets have the advantage of not weighing down the web browser because they act only if called.
The list of the best bookmarklets for browsers is in a dedicated article.
On Internet Explorer the new Bing Bar with Facebook, the weather and Email notifications and the Google Toolbar with account synchronization also work very well.
To conclude, keep in mind that on Internet Explorer, in the management of add-ons, you can check the performance of the installed addons if they slow down the browser or not.
