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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Battle of the browsers - Round 2

Firefox 2.0 has been released hot on the heels of Microsoft's internet explorer 7. It will be interesting to see how big the take up of both browsers will be.

Whatever happens, Machines WILL need Internet Explorer 7 simply so they have a guarantee that security patches will continue to be made available for issues in Internet Explorer.

I've played with both IE7 and Firefox 2.0 - IE7 certainly has the biggest overall as tabbed browsing is now supported. Overall, I suppose IE7 works well enough but it still seems lacking in several areas to me. Two things in IE7 do annoy me:

1. Changing the default search engine is three mouse clicks (select it in the drop down, Click on options then onto apply) where as IE7 could just remember the users setting.

2. There is no ability to slipstream IE7 into an existing distribution. This means that you still have to build a machine THEN apply IE7. I need to have a look at unattended installs/Zero Administration for IE7 and see what's available.

Whilst I will be deploying IE7 I'm afraid my browser of choice for day to day work will be Firefox 2.0

posted by Gary Williams at Wednesday, October 25, 2006

2 Comments:

  • Thank you for the information. i thought Firefox would either automatically upgrade, or at least, offer to when there was one, but there was no sign on there that they had 2.0 out. so I had to go and find it, which I think is silly of them really.

    By Blogger JJ2216, At Saturday, October 28, 2006  

  • Good point. So far I've not seen any indication that Firefox 2.0 WILL upgrade over 1.x

    By Blogger Gary Williams, At Monday, October 30, 2006  

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