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This is a list of add-ons for Internet Explorer , which includes extensions and toolbars. They are to be used in conjunction with Internet Explorer, and not alone, as they depend on services provided by the browser, or its accompanying Windows RSS Platform.
| Name | Manufacturer/Maintainer | Description | Compatible IE version |
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| Adblock Plus | Wladimir Palant / Eyeo GmbH | Ad-blocking | 6+ [1] [2] |
| Affine | Maurice Calvert | Hide unwanted sites from search engine results | 6, 7 |
| FeedsPlus | Microsoft | Feeds aggregation and notification | 7 |
| Fiddler | a HTTP debugging proxy | ||
| Ghostery | Evidon | Privacy | 9 |
| Gofor-It for Internet Explorer | SBS Development Ltd | Adds ability to use selection-based web search | 6, 7, 8 |
| IE7pro | Daniel Fang [usurped] | Tabbed browsing enhancements, ad blocking, user scripts | 6, 7, 8 |
| LuckyTabSave | LuckywarePro | Saves browsing session into file | 8 |
| Lyrics Here | Rob Wu | Adds song lyrics to YouTube and other music sites | 8, 9, 10, 11 |
| Mouse Gestures for Internet Explorer | Ralph Hare | Adds ability to use mouse gestures | 6, 7, 8 |
| MSFeedIcon | Wictor Wilén | Feeds notification and aggregation | 7 |
| Quero | Viktor Krammer | Navigation bar replacement with integrated ad blocker | 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 |
| Simple Adblock | Simple Adblock | Ad-blocking | 6, 7, 8, 9 |
| Speckie | Versoworks | Spell checker | 9 |
| SpoofStick | aids defending from phishing [3] | ||
| Turn Off the Lights | Stefan vd | Obscures or masks content other than a running video | 6, 7, 8, 9 |
| Name | Manufacturer/Maintainer | Description | Compatible IE version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced searchbar | Advanced Search Technologies, Inc. | Search, ad-blocking, spell checking, and auto login | 6, 7, 8 |
| Alexa Toolbar | includes a popup blocker, a search engine entry box, related links and information about the Alexa ranking of the current website; Alexa uses it to measure website statistics. | ||
| Altavista toolbar | offers search, translations, and pop-up blocker [3] | ||
| Data Toolbar | DataTool Services | Data Recognition and Extraction | 6, 7, 8 |
| Earthlink toolbar | offers search, phishing defense, and pop-up blocker [3] | ||
| IE Developer toolbar | Microsoft | Web page design and debugging. [4] [5] It allows the viewing of the page's source as well as of the DOM source and the CSS selectors that were applied to an element. [6] | 6, 7 |
| Vivisimo MiniBar | offers search and pop-up blocking [3] |
| Name | Manufacturer/Maintainer | Description | Compatible IE version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maxthon | Browser, uses Trident layout engine. | 6, 7 | |
| AOL Explorer | AOL | Browser, uses Trident layout engine. | 6, 7 |
| Avant Browser | Avant Force | Browser, uses Trident layout engine. | 6, 7 |
Internet Explorer is a retired series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft that were used in the Windows line of operating systems. While IE has been discontinued on most Windows editions, it remains supported on certain editions of Windows, such as Windows 10 LTSB/LTSC. Starting in 1995, it was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year. Later versions were available as free downloads or in-service packs and included in the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) service releases of Windows 95 and later versions of Windows. Microsoft spent over US$100 million per year on Internet Explorer in the late 1990s, with over 1,000 people involved in the project by 1999. New feature development for the browser was discontinued in 2016 and ended support on June 15, 2022 for Windows 10 Semi-Annual Channel (SAC), in favor of its successor, Microsoft Edge.
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