Sorry Firefox, IE7 kicks butt
October 28th, 2006This week I upgraded Firefox to 2.0 and also IE to IE7. Firefox has a few subtle improvements, but IE7 is all new. The main features of IE 7:
- Added tabbed browsing. It is more elegant than Firefox, has a preview tab “(Quick Tabs”) and an easier way to open a new tab.
- Collapsed menu bars. This opens a lot more of the browser window.
- Add-ons, similar to Firefox extensions. E.g. IESpell enables spell checking in forms (Firefox 2.0 does this natively)
- RSS feed handling, similar to Firefox.
Overall I think the that collapsed menu bars makes IE7 more elegant than Firefox and while I think Firefox will remain strong due to the Linux community, IE will retain and regain many users.