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IE7 vs Firefox 2

Windows Fanatics, a blog at lockergnome.com, has a very interesting article IE7 Vs. Firefox 2.0

The conclusion — install both of them and use them interchangeably. If a web site doesn’t work on one, use the other.

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But, he also had an alternative conclusion — don’t install either one — wait for a couple weeks for patches.

Personally, I don’t agree with the alternative conclusion. IE7 has huge security fixes to the ActiveX gaping security hole. If you keep using IE6 when you could change to IE7, you’re making a mistake.

Firefox 2 is much more of an incremental upgrade — but Firefox has seen a lot of new versions in the last 2 years. This is the first real IE upgrade in 5 years!

By: terry | 2006/11/11 | Communications - Firefox - IE - Security - Web browsing - Windows XP | Trackback | Comments [RSS 2.0]

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  1. Lance Chambers
    Comment by Lance Chambers | 2007/01/25 at 03:20:40

    I have used bot IE6 and Foirefox and have dumped IE in favour of Firefox.

    Why!

    I don’t want to wait another 5 years to get IE8 if I upgrade to 7.

    Firefox is updated on a very regular basis, is public domain and so you are sure of ANY security holes being fixed very fast by the programmer community. And the extension are incredible.

  2. terry
    Comment by terry | 2007/01/25 at 19:57:30

    Lance,
    I agree — I use Firefox for all my web surfing (except to microsoft.com).

    You pointed out thatit’s updaed regularly — the other big point is that its license makes it free for anyone to use for personal or business use. You’re wrong, though, on “public domain.”

    Firefox is “open source” and has a very user-friendly license, but it is not public domain.
    Terry


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