Through an unfortunate turn of events at work, I can't use Firefox on my office computer any longer. Tomorrow morning I figure I may as well upgrade my version of IE from 6.whatever to v7. I believe that IE7 offers tabbed browsing? My other great loss is AdBlock -- not just blocking ads but blocking unwanted images such as borderline avatars, WoW/FFXI sigs, etc. Are there any applications which can do this for me in IE? The IE site from Microsoft has a link for "AddOns" but, WTF, they think I should have to pay to get the same functionality I get for free with Firefox (the adblocker was $29.95 for Christ's sake)
I know there's those who say that Firefox is overrated and IE is just as good so does anyone have any sage advice or experience?