Internet Explorer 7.0

Tennessee Tom · Oct 25, 2006

I downloaded and installed IE7.0 from Yahoo and Bill Gates strikes again. He stole the idea of tabs from Mozilla. Everything looks nice for now. I like the compatability of IE with the tabs of Mozilla.

Terry O'Keefe · Oct 25, 2006

Local Computer Guru for the Chronicle gives the new IE7 2 thumbs up. There is also a new release of Fire Fox comming out, FireFox 2.0. Also very good, but he likes the look and feel of IE 7.

Explorer and Firefox duke it out

By DWIGHT SILVERMAN
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

Suddenly it feels like 1998 again.

That's because the browser wars are back. Last week, Microsoft released the long-awaited update to its Web browser, Internet Explorer 7, ending a five-year drought. And sometime today, the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser — version 2.0, the successor to the original Netscape — will be formally released.

Although we're not likely to see the kind of development that results in releases of new Web-browsing programs every few months as in the 1990s, Microsoft's reawakening and an aggressive market-share grab by the Mozilla group has jump-started a battle many thought long dead.

That leaves Internet users with the benefits of competition and the dilemma of making a choice when new versions are released. Which browser is the best?

I spent time running IE7 and Firefox 2.0 side by side, comparing key features. IE7 was the finished version. Firefox 2.0 was the last test release, which is expected to be the finished code, or close to it.

Here's a look at the top features in the browsers, and which has the advantage:
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Browser Wars

Tennessee Tom · Oct 30, 2006

I have just found the one feature that makes IE7 a must have... for me anyway. I have 6 different sites that I frequent. IE7 asks you if you want to open the present tabs the next time you open IE7. If you say yes, you have your most important sites open the next time you open IE7.

IE7 also allows two home pages (two tabs open automatically). I have Earthlink and Yahoo open every time IE is opened regardless of whether any other tabs are opened.

Stu Ryckman · Oct 31, 2006

Question is whether it will keep all of that spyware/adware off your system like Mozilla does.

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