If you are an advanced user, who’s well aware of online security hazards and capable of identifying phony Web sites, you can speed up your Internet Explorer by turning the phishing filter off. And here’s how to do it:

1. Open Internet Explorer 7
2. Click Tools the select Phishing Filter and Turn off Automatic Website Checking.
3. Click OK

If while browsing the web you encounter a suspicious Web site, you can always check it manually through the Tools || Phishing Filter menu.

[tags] Internet Explorer, Phishing Filter[/tags]

Internet Explorer 7 features the possiblity to set multiple home pages. This can be specially handy if you mantain a personal page in both Google and Yahoo (or others), and you would like to have them open by default when you start your browser.

Be aware that this new feature introduces a performance degradation in the browser’s startup as multiple pages are open. (See this post for a simple method to speed up IE by avoiding the load of the home page)

How to configure to open multiple Home pages?

• Open IE 7
• Click Tools  || Internet Options
• In the Home Page section, located at the top of the General tab specify your home pages as shown below:

   

  
• Click OK
• Restart IE 7

Firefox user? See how to configure FF to show multiple home pages here.

[tags] Internet Explorer 7, IE 7 [/tags]