Microsoft has released the final build of IE7 today to customers, with the company expected to push the build by automatic updates on 1st November. The new version has several additional features comparied with IE 6, including tabbed browsing, RSS Web feeds and anti-phishing support.

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In related news, the Opera development team announced a very interesting feature at their Backstage event, which took place yesterday. Opera 9.1 will include fraud protection measures that are more advanced(?) than IE7 or Firefox 2.0. When visiting a new website, the browser will check against it's database to identify whether it is trusted or not. Borg, Opera UI developer and Desktop team manager, explains it further: " If we know the site, there will be a small information "i" in the right end of the address field. If it's unknown/not verified there will be a "?" and if it's known as a fraudulent site we will display a warning and block the user from accessing the site."