I agree. Why would you remove one of the most useful features in IE. As I said in an email to the IE team, that's like removing spell check from Outlook.
Guys at MS--- you need to make an add in or something to get us the tool bar back.
That's what I don't like: There's no image toolbar. There was in IE6, so this is a step backward. I downloaded IE7 before its ''public'' release because my IE6 was unstable. Stability problem fixed. Then I went to Microsoft's FAQ about IE7, and it said no one liked the image toolbar, so it isn't included in IE7. Well, those who didn't like it should've been given the option to disable it under preferences.
Otherwise, I prefer Firefox2.

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