Everyone knows Internet Explorer and almost everyone uses it. In the last three months I’ve installed the whole pletora of browsers available for Windows: Mozilla 1.3/.14a, Phoenix/Firebird, Netscape Navigator 7, Opera 6/7 and some less-known browser such as K-Meleon… I noticed that, except for obvious differences, that all of them have some nice features that IE lacks of. I use IE at work (and also at home) and I think that kind of nifty features can be very useful for users and developers.
I think that the “must have” features are:
- Tabbed browsing: all modern browsers have except IE
- Popup blocking: it’s worthwhile having the opportunity to get rid of annoying windows
- Plugin manager: for enabling or disabling some features and such a control panel where users could handle third party plugins
I hope one day will have IE 6.x or 7th version with some (or all) of this features and more (especially tabbed browsing which is definitely essential for pre-WinXP releases of Windows).
Is there a “request for features” place on Microsoft website?
