Monday, October 30, 2006

Internet Explorer 7.0 Vs Fire Fox 2.0

Browser Battles still continue, now it is whether the 800 pound gorilla IE 7.0 or the zilla from Mozilla :)

This months Information Week carried an excellent article comparing both the browsers.

Here is the gist of the same,

Eight major browser features which are important to businesses,

1) Remote management
IE allows remote management of browser where as Fire fox needs explicit plug-ins

2) Tabbed browsing
IE 7 added it but firefox already had it.

3) Security
IE had lot of security holes which are plugged but fire fox never had these issues.

4) Search
search bars can now be added inside IE7 but fire fox already has this.

5) Feeds
Support for RSS, Atom feeds is provided new for IE but firefox already had it

6) Standards
IE trying to comply with W3C, CSS & DOM

7) Printing
Good feature is IE tries to shrink the web page and print it, fire fox doesnt

8) Saves / restore
When browser crashes firefox remembers and restores session, IE doesnt

Now i leave it to you to decide which one to use. :)

Dont ask me what i use ;)