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smyke89

Feb 13 2007, 02:34 PM

RSS FEEDS

After Microsoft intended (and failed badly) to launch it’s own standard, known best when Internet Explorer 4 came with Active Channels, the company has apparently forgotten this mode of transmitting information. Mozilla on the other hand, did not. The possibility of using RSS feeds being available since the 1.0 version. But, both this version as well as the following one were not very ergonomic in implementing this facility.
Even in the 2.0 version, Mozilla did not back down from the option to put RSS feeds in the favorites menu. It’s an ambiguous approach, many users not understanding what the RSS option really does. Furthermore, opening an address of this type returned an XML code, confusing even more the users. Fortunately, the 2.0 version has solved this problem.
Curiously, after Microsoft has adopted the famous orange icon for the RSS feeds, the two rival companies have involuntary agreed in the way they show these news. Once you access the icon from the address bar (for Firefox 2.0) or from the instrument bar (for Internet Explorer 7), the pages offered by the two browsers are very similar. Fortunately, the likeness stops here. Internet Explorer 7 manipulates feeds as ordinary pages. Subscribing to a channel like this makes a shortcut in a special section from the dropdown menu and contains navigation history and the Favorites, the refreshing being automatically done. The page opened with Firefox is more complex, allowing the sending of the RSS channel to the internal management and display system Live Bookmarks or to external services like Bloglines, Yahoo! or Google Reader, as well as the FeedDemon application or other similar applications that cannot be automatically detected.
If you do not use online services Firefox works with, the approach of the rival (Internet Explorer 7) is made with more style, lecturing a page with a good layout being preferable to consulting a list of shortcuts (Live Bookmarks).

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smyke89

Feb 13 2007, 06:21 PM

Security

The discussion about browser security will always be a battle, the fans of a browser always trying to amplify the problems of a rival company’s browser and minimize those of their own. Although both browsers have had their fair share of problems, they have been minor ones in the case of the Mozilla browser, the repair of the breaches being done pretty fast, and that cannot be said about the Microsoft browser.
Microsoft has declared that Internet Explorer 7 will be different of precedent versions, bringing the long awaited security to the user. Even tough the official launch has been affected by the signaling of two security problems, one of them a reminiscence of the inherited code, and the other a ordinary breach that allowed one to hide some portions of the URL address by entering some special characters, we must appreciate Microsoft’s effort to bring out on the market a much safer browser. The mode in which the alien code was ran has been rewritten, the application not allowing the opening of unsigned ActiveX controls, thus offering a protection against Cross-domain scripting and the possibility to block the same ActiveX controls depending of the security zone and the site’s address.
But the most interesting option that was introduced by both companies in the new products is represented by the anti-phising protection. This protection allows the signaling, in the moment you visit a site specifically made to collect confidential information, of the danger the user is exposed to. It seems that this time Microsoft has made a work as good as Mozilla…
Firefox 2.0 uses a local static database. This contains the addresses of the most popular sites used for phising. The user can also choose to use the consulting of the online Google Safe Browse service. The advantage is that Google Safe Browsing is updated more often. The Microsoft product offers similar facilities, utilizing an online black list. Depending on the way the first tests of this facilities where made, the results have placed both products in the same area, both detecting somewhere between 60 and 75 percent, the single exception being that of Internet Explorer’s blacklist, which is pretty weak.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, Mozilla has succeeded, in the context of very close matched products, to bring out a new and useful facility (especially for English users) : a lexical corrector. Available in the text fields, this allows a real time correction of the typed words, being a real help for the users that often mistype. This option has been a little neglected tough by Mozilla, the dictionaries available in other languages, not being compatible with the 2.0 version, and the user has to manually install the .XPI archives. But Microsoft’s Internet explorer 7 has a zoom button that gives users the possibility to enlarge the whole page, not only the text, an option only Opera users had until now.

Conclusions

It is difficult to give a simple conclusion that can make one of the products a favorite. On one hand, Mozilla has chosen the simple way, not introducing some of the facilities and preferring to improve those existent, promising to revolutionize browsing when they launch Firefox 3, sometime at the middle of the next year. On the other hand, Microsoft has learned from its mistakes and has managed to offer a good product, that, despite of some functionality and design problems, is meant to give all its users a new and nice experience for all the users, but being forced to counter the migration towards Opera or Firefox…

This was it… it is what I could pull out of the 2 browsers….

This is the table of results…

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smyke89

Feb 13 2007, 06:34 PM

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Killer008r

Mar 24 2007, 01:30 PM

Everyone always forgets OPERA the webbrowser. It's probaly the best browser out there. Not to mention it supports the Nintendo Wii by having the only browser on the Wii, and making it's internet work... Opera has it's own built in features, and had them before the others, Firefox took the built in mail client and the tabs feature. And quite frankly so did explorer 7. Opera also has widgets, which are little programs you can download that can be from a small browser programming thing, all the way to games. It's like personalizing your google page. Except more choices. So I only have one thing to say..

Opera is better than bouth of them

in my opinion.

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nicholas2

Jun 4 2007, 03:40 PM

I use Fire fox 2 because it is more secure and is much better at websites you can restore your old sesions :wink:

I would never go back to IE7 maybe when IE8 comes out i might but they all ways seem to copy firefox now correct me if im wrong but didnt firefox have Tabs before IE??

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tyƒoon™

Jun 4 2007, 07:29 PM

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correct me if im wrong but didnt firefox have Tabs before IE??

Yep they did!!! I would definately prefer Firefox 2 rather then IE7. Because I have been using Firefox for quite some time before IE7 was released with its tab-browsing and built-in search bar. And since IE7 has been released, i have supported firefox even more because its much more unique then IE7 as they were one of the first browsers with tabs and search features and i just believe IE7 simply copied of them. But that is just my personal opinion.

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