It created quite a mess for the Internet. Netscape threw in the towel, but its heir, Mozilla Firefox, continues to hold a share in the market. Recently, Firefox unveiled its version 2.0, as Internet Explorer released the long-awaited IE7.
Internet Explorer 7 has a simplified interface which leaves more workspace than its previous incarnations. It implements tabbed browser, a longtime popular feature on Firefox. It implements a unified search box and RSS feed integration, long part of Firefox.
Both Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7 boast improved security features including new phishing protection to prevent visiting spoofed websites. When IE7 is used in the upcoming Vista release, it promises a protected mode that isolates it from the rest of the OS for security protection.
IE7 is a major improvement to the Internet Explorer browser. However, much of its improvements are playing catchup to the Firefox features that have proven too popular to ignore.
Firefox 2.0 has the same list of features, plus improvements to their tabbed browsing, a session restore feature allows a complete restore of a terminated Firefox session. inline spell checking, improved plugin management, as well as other improvements make Firefox the better of the two despite the higher market share Internet Explorer commands.
We don’t recommend chucking IE completely. It can still be very useful for sites that stubbornly refuse to open in Firefox. Of course, there is an extension for Firefox that allows you to open any link in an IE window embedded inside a Firefox tab, called IE Tab. Wait…perhaps you can discard IE entirely if you want…
