IE 7: Where's my refresh button?

So I successfully avoided using IE 7 since it first came out... Until recently, that is. Unfortunately, the Disney IT department doesn't support Firefox (which is jaw-dropping in it's own right) and I've been forced to use Microsoft's excuse for a browser. :( I know this is old news, but here I am discovering things for the first time.

I'm sitting here thinking about the rationale of why IE's UI designers would break apart such a successful cluster of buttons. After the Back button, I imagine Refresh must be a browser's most-clicked button; then Home, Stop, and trailing at the back of the pack would be Forward. Although I never made use of the Favorites button, I noticed it's orphaned in the bottom left corner just before the tabs.



Perhaps it was a strong desire to distinguish themselves from the rest of the browser world by creating a UI which focused less on the traditional buttons approach. Unfortunately, I think they missed the mark.

Thankfully, they kept the text menu cluster intact.