IE7 and Firefox 2
Microsoft released IE7 last week and it seems likely that Firefox 2 will be released tomorrow. I have been running the Firefox 2 development branch nightly builds for a while now and on Friday I fired up a virtual machine, running WinXP, and installed IE7 to give it a try.
The first thing noticed is that I dislike the visual themes for both. I do, however, like the was M$ have given the user more screen real estate for the website by moving the menus around.
Feature wise the two seem to be fairly level. Certainly I could see nothing obvious that I would use in one that is not in the other. There are a couple of features I gain with extensions in Firefox that I could not see an obvious parallel to in IE7 - but I did not fully check through the IE add on site to see if there was something similar available.
I’ll be sticking with Firefox - moving to IE7 is not an option, as I use Linux - but it is good to see M$ finally waking up their web browser development and also seeing them working more closely towards web standards.
