IE7 and FF

An even bigger IE hole is that the browser is directly tied to the operating system, and so an attack on IE means an attack on Windows itself. Microsoft is taking a halfway measure against this in the next version of IE. In Vista, but not in XP, there will be a "protected mode" that isolates IE from the operating system and other applications, so IE won't be able to write to a file without a user's consent.

Does all this mean that IE will be superior to Firefox? I guess not..But to squash Firefox, it doesn't have to -- it just has to improve its security, and add a few extra features. It looks like IE 7 is on the road to doing that. Given that the beta of Firefox 1.5 doesn't add many big new features, aside from handling auto-updates better, this could mean that IE will start to take back the ground it's lost to the Open Source browser.

 

Doesn't really matter what M$ does I'll never use IE never have 'cept a couple of times for updates...

I've used Netscape (since it 1st came out) then Mozilla & Now Firefox...

No reason to take 10-steps backwards for me... IE is still not totally compatible with Net Standards even M$ admited that it won't be on launch...

 

ie7 will be backward compatable with all the buggy css that ie browsers before hand accepted. Microsoft are now scared that if they make a standards complient browser websites with 'best viewed in ie' proudly displaid on them will no longer work.

 

I shifted from IE to FF when I got a job on a company that uses FF.. It just works well for me.