Quero Toolbar is an address bar replacement for Internet Explorer that also has an ad blocker.

Quero provides direct access to a variety of popular search engines, adds find-as-you-type functionality to IE, and has a built-in ad blocker to suppress unwanted Flash, banner, layer or pop-up ads.

Here are some key features of "Quero Toolbar":

Address bar functionality:
· Seamless integration of Web search and address navigation into only one input box.
Navigation bar replacement:
· Customize the UI of IE7 ? resize, move or shorten your address bar again
Search profile editor:
· Add your own favorite search engines to Quero or choose from a list of predefined search profiles.
Quero Ad Blocker:
· Guard against unwanted Flash, banner, layer, Google, IntelliTXT and pop-up ads.
Quick Type & Find:
· Instantly jump to Quero's search box when you start typing and find the phrase as you type.
Highlight search terms:
· Quero can automatically highlight the search term occurrencies of your last query.
Cursor Search:
· Search or highlight any word on a Web page by selecting and right-clicking it.
Go to text URLs:
· Jump to URLs that are not hyperlinked.
Google's Browse By Name:
· Are you feeling lucky? Then enter your keywords and press Ctrl+Enter to go directly to the first Web page returned by Google for your query.
Drag & Drop functionality:
· Drag keywords from or to Quero's serach box or drag URLs from Quero to your Favorites or Links bar.
Zoom page:
· Make text on Web pages easier legible and scale them for printing.
Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) plug-in:
· Access Web addresses in your own language. Experimental support for cyrillic TLDs (??, ???, ???, ???) included.
IDN phishing protection:
· Quero protects you against IDN phishing tricks by highlighting suspicious characters in the host name.
Core domain highlighting:
· Quero helps you to figure out on which Web site you really are by highlighting the registered domain in the address.
https indication:
· Secure connections are indicated by a change of Quero's background color to yellow and by displaying the lock symbol in the toolbar. You are encouraged to check the Web site's certificate.
Favicons in taskbar:
· Quero makes the shortcut icons found on many Web sites visible and displays the favicons in the taskbar.
Resize browser window:
· Quickly change the size of your browser window to predefined dimensions.
User agent editor:
· Allows you to view and edit the user agent string to simulate another Web browser.
Customize toolbar appearance:
· Change the design of the toolbar buttons and the font size of Quero's search box.
Respecting your privacy:
· Quero is an independent research project and is designed to protect your privacy.

Requirements:

· Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or later (IE8 supported)

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· IE8 support added
· You can now disable the ad blocker temporarily for the current domain (shortcut Ctrl+Ins or click on the recycle bin icon in the Quero box).
· New option added: "Show Search Terms While Searching"
· New OpenSearch template parameters added, which can be used to build queries depending on the current URL: Quero:url, Quero:hostname and Quero:domainname.
· New keyboard shortcut added: Ctrl+L toggles between search and navigation mode
· New Registry setting "Keys" of type DWORD added for disabling global keyboard shortcuts used by Quero. In order to turn Ctrl+Ins off, set the value to 0xFFFEFF.
· Win9x: included newer version of UnicoWS.dll (1.1.3790)
· Fixed: crash on certain Web pages if the ad blocker was turned on