Will IE 7 be the death of Firefox?
Sarah Perez on June 25th, 2005
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Apparently, if Bill isn’t dominating 100% of the world, he’s just not happy. When Internet Explorer’s market share dropped below 90%, Microsoft became concerned. Next thing you know, Internet Explorer Version 7 was on the horizon. IE7 is supposed to be more secure and will be introducing … drumroll … tabbed browsing. These leaves some to believe the Firefox rebellion will be over. Hmmm… I doubt that. Firefox has a lot more to offer besides tabs - like Live Bookmarks, easy downloads, and not to mention about a zillion extensions. There was an official preview of the browser at Chris Pirillo’s Gnomedex, but thanks to the net, there are some unofficial screenshots since I couldn’t afford the airfare.
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yeah? I won’t be swtiching back.
IE 7 will be the same old crappy browser under a new skin. They are not going to fix the engine. That would require a complete new rendering engine.
NEVER!!
I like your stuff. I’ve blogrolled you.
Well I’m using both browser. From what I heard, IE is supposed to use a modified engine to apply the web standards in a better way (dont ask me details about that though …)
Though I did experienced crashes with IE, I cant count the numerous ones I did with FF and all the pseudo not working extensions.
I mainly use FF to check when writing a website or when I know I’ll have to open up many pages thru tabs.
i’m not a fan of the new MSN toolbar which give you those tabs in IE…just a bad preview of IE7 IMO…I’ll wait for the beta to come out soon and will certainly use it
Getting me to move back to IE will be a tough sell as I’m not a Microsoft fan. I love FireFox. With all things being equal between the two, I would probably still stay with FireFox just out of principle.
surfed in through blogexplosion. I will never use IE again no matter what. I am hooked on firefox. It is the best. Personally. I am starting to like Opera as well. It has a few features that firefox doesnt that I really like better. But IE is done at least for me.
I will admit that I will always have the latest version of IE installed, only to test my sites in. Gotta check your work in all the browsers.
i’m not going to go back to IE just because they’re going to add in tabbed windows. i think firefox has built up a large fanbase and loyal ones at that. that and like you’ve said, ff has a gazillion extensions in addition to the tabbed browsing.
firefox is awesome!
Count me in with those who are sticking with Firefox, I aint EVER going back!
Long live Firefox!