Internet Explorer (IE) is the king of all browsers. It has an amazing market share of around 70% which should be highly appriciated because it has stood through all kinds of bad weather. But due to the rise of browsers like Chrome and Firefox, regular clients are slowly but steadily shifting from IE to these browsers. So if Microsoft has to overcome this threat, they must sure do serious changes to their browser. Here are a few of my own suggestions :

1. Change the appearence : Microsoft is sticking to the same old look of its which should be urgently improved. Users should get the rights to alter the look by adding themes, plugins and other widgets. Firefox (FF) is one of the browsers that has a good set of themes. Also, IE should launch icon packs so that the common users will get a change. In one sentence, it is called “Bad CSS Rendering”.

Currently Supported By : Firefox, Flock

2. Allow Addons : This is the main reason why people choose FF over IE, addons. They make you feel you are into another world just by these plugins. As on this day, there are more than 5000 plugins/addons in every gerne. These plugins can go simple things from allowing you to use Javascripts to knowing where the site is hosted. It makes the best better. The plugin that helps the most are those that block all ads from a website so that you get one of the features of a premium member.

Currently Supported By : Firefox

3. Allowing GreaseMonkey : There are more than 50000 scripts on the whole internet that allow you to do almost anything. I personally use around 10 of these scripts for Orkut and personal use and once you start using it, you will never feel like quitting that browser.

Currently Supported By : Firefox

4. Clean And Simple : Internet Explorer and Firefox both sometimes seem like the inside view of the pilot’s cabin. Full of icons on the task-bar. Nah, nobody will prefer that unless he is a net nerd and uses all of them daily. I would love the clean look of Google Chrome and so would you. It just seems like a no-nonsense browser with just a tab to type URL and one for switching tabs.

Currently Supported By : Google Chrome

5. Speed : Speed is the main reasons why people normally change their ISP’s. But they don’t know that they might be suffering just because they are using Internet Explorer. Come on, there would be nobody in this whole world who would not need better speeds. Man is surely greedy, atleast for speed isssues. In today’s market, Safari and Opera have the top place for speed, Google comes second (though the speed while downloading still sucks), then comes IE and last FF.

6. Uninstall IE : This is a biased world and IE further-more proves it. 95% of the world uses Microsoft and IE comes pre-installed to them. They generally start using it and then never shift from it, even if they like other browsers. So, this is the main reason why IE is ruling the browser war. I sincerely hope Microsoft gives an option to uninstall ASAP so that I can have a peace of mind atleast.

If any Mircosoft employee is reading this, I sicerely request you to please either add the 1st 5 of the above listed features or if it is not possible, then the 6th one. Also, check out this graph I found on the net. If any Mozilla guy is reading this, please reduce the booting time because not anyone has a PC with 4GB RAM. Peace to all.

I have got many complaints from friends and other people online that Internet Explorer is very slow. So if you are one of those frustrated guys out there, just follow the following tweak and who knows, it might make up your mind from not shifting to another browser.

Open RUN (XP users have the option in the Start Menu, Vista users just type RUN in the search) and type REGEDIT in the box provided.

Now navigate to the following directory : HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Policies/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Restrictions

Create A New DWORD Value Names ‘x’ (See Complete List Of Values Of ‘x’ Below) And Modify Its Value To 1 To Enable It And 0 To Disable It.

NoBrowserClose:Disable The Option Of OF Closing IE.
NoBrowserContextMenu:Disable Right-Click Context Menu.
NoBrowserOptions:Disable The Tools/Internet Options Menu.
NobrowserSaveAs:Disable The Abilty To Save As.
NoFavourites:Disable The Favourites.
NoFileNew:Disable The File/New Command.
NoFileOpen:Disable The File/Open Command.
NoFindFiles:Disable The Find Files Command.
NoSelectDownloadDir:Disable The Option Of Selecting A Download Directory.
NoTheatere Mode:Disable The Full Screen View Option.

If you disable the features you never use, I bet that it will make your experience of using IE better.