I’m still primarily a Firefox user myself, but I do fire up IE 7 from time to time. That’s when IE7Pro, a free power-packed browser add-on, comes in really handy. I forgot to mention it here back when I first installed it, but Ed Bott’s post reminded me again today.

IE7Pro brings some of the most popular features from Firefox to IE 7, including inline search (aka find-as-you-type), spell checking, mouse gestures, ad blocking, crash recovery, and even a Greasemonkey-like user-scripts manager with its own repository.

Installing the add-on causes no noticeable performance hit from my experience with it, and it brings a wealth of useful functionality to an otherwise barebones browser. So give it a try, especially if IE 7 is your primary browser.