Firefox 2.0 vs. Internet Explorer 7

Everyone's talking about Firefox 2. Microsoft has released its newest version of Internet explorer -- IE 7. What's the difference? Both have tabs, integrated search boxes and streamlined appearances.

If you haven't updated Windows yet, make sure you don't include IE7 in your update (you could if want to test it). It takes forever to install and after you restart your computer, you have to wait twenty minutes to half an hour for it to install.

• IE 7 has improved support for CSS, which is relief for some, but others will see their pages broken. (You can use IE 7 conditional comments, for those of you with broken pages.)
  

• Tabs are the most useful new feature in IE7, and integrated search is just one of the other features that Microsoft had to implement in order to keep up with the features Mozilla packaged with Firefox long ago. However, Microsoft and Mozilla do the same things differently. Take tabs for example--with Firefox, tabs take only a split second to open; sadly, IE7's tabs take an entire second to load. For most of us, that's a Long, Long, Time.

• Firefox's add-ons are numerous--simply because Firefox has supported add-ons for a longer period of time. IE7 will take quite a while to catch up with FF's number of extensions.

• IE7 crashes more often than Firefox and this is the greatest reason for using Firefox.

Bottom line: Firefox wins.

Don't believe me? Download IE7 and compare it with FF2.
Don't tell me I didn't warn you.