Kara Media Corporation has reviewed the latest add on for Internet Explorer - The MSN Toolbar Suite, and has concluded with 5/5. If you are already using toolbars on your Internet Explorer browser, you are probably used to the common search function embedded within. The MSN Toolbar Suite is anything but a simple toolbar that adds search functionality. After all, if you need that, you can just go to www.google.com.

Our evaluation of this free product consists of simple statements. If you use a different browser such as Mozilla Firefox, please leave a comment telling us why you prefer it instead of Internet Explorer. If your response is that it ''allows tabbed browsing'', we can safely tell you that the MSN Toolbar Suite revolutionises your exploring experience by adding the tabbed functionality to your browser. It seems as if you have updated your browser!

What is tabbed browsing? If you are tired of opening a new window every time you click on something new and your task bar is becoming too full, MSN Toolbar's TABS allow you to manage and view several sites in just one Internet Explorer window. This means the system will treat it as one program in the taskbar, yet you will have several websites open at the same time. You can switch tabs instantly. In addition, the Toolbar adds integrated functionality to Microsoft Office Outlook, and it adds a Deskbar to your Desktop. All of these options can be fully customised, and after one week of testing, the staff at Kara Corporation simply LOVES it.

A standard package we would recommend is the MSN Toolbar Suite for Internet Explorer, which can be found at this address: http://toolbar.msn.com/. In addition, to complete and enhance your experience, download the Microsoft Phishing filter plug in for MSN Toolbar, which monitors and tells you whether the sites you access are safe. Another useful plug in is the MSN Search Preview Function, which enables you to preview a thumbnail of a site when you search for it, so you can decide whether to go there or not. The plug ins can be found at this site: http://addins.msn.com/addins_category_toolbar.aspx

To summarise and ultimately conclude, if you have the MSN Toolbar or any other toolbar for that matter, remove it and install this one. It will revolutionise your browsing experience by far, which is why the research team at Kara Corporation awards it 5/5.

Leave your comments and opinions if necessary. I would also love to hear about any problems you may have experienced while installing or any queries you may have.