One of the most commonly used feature of any browser is Finding Text and frankly Internet Explorer’s find feature sucks big time. I mean shouldn’t such widely used feature be used in just one key stroke. But no Internet Explorer believes otherwise. To find something on a page rendered by IE takes more than one keystroke. Let’s see how typically the find box used to look in Internet Explorer till version 7.

Now that puts a question mark on Microsoft’s User Interface design team/department. However, with IE 8 beta 2 there’s been some improvement. But still there is a very important feature missing. You cannot highlight all the places where the word/phrase appears.

So is there a solution to this? Yes, there is. Now you can get Firefox style Find Feature. All you have to do is install Google Tool bar 5 for Internet Explorer. You can get the toolbar here. Once installed your find feature will look something like this (Hit CTRL+F) :

If the Find bar from of Google toolbar is not activated you can do so by following the steps:

1. Click the Adjust Toolbar option icon on your Google Toolbar.
2. Click the Tools tab in the Toolbar Options window.
3. Select the Find bar checkbox.
4. Click the Save button.

That’s it! Now you should be able to see the Firefox style Find functionality in Internet Explorer. Following is the video that shows the Find Feature of Google Toolbar 5 for Internet Explorer.