Great Article Comparing IE 7 and Firefox 2.0
Found a great article this morning comparing IE 7 and Firefox 2.0 back to back.
The lowdown:
- Firefox now has a SPELLCHECKER!!! LOVE IT!
- Firefox is still faster than IE
- This one is REALLY important to our team: Site compatibility. Internet Explorer 6 was known
for not being compliant with Web standards, and while IE7 improves on
that, it still doesn't play as well with others as Firefox. However,
there's a caveat here.
Because IE6 has such a huge base of users, many Web developers have drafted sites that appear "broken" in Firefox. As a result, with the improvements that have been made in IE7, there are now more sites that appear broken in the newer browser as well. Also, many sites may not recognize IE7, or even think its an older version of Internet Explorer, and not display properly as a result.As a result, the advantage here goes to Firefox 2.0. Interesting...
- Firefox still has more Add-Ons such as themes, download managers, video managers, etc.
- Firefox is more secure than IE (anything is more secure than Microsoft!)
The only thing that IE really had going for it was the interface and tabbing of pages. That was about it. Looks like Firefox is the winner AGAIN!




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