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Will Firefox be Extinguished?

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current event by shaferr on 02 February 2006, tagged as internetnetworking

Microsoft has recently released a free preview of their answer to Firefox. The free IE 7 beta 2 preview is currently available for download. Of course developers and IT professionals who want to test the beta are warned not to ignore the appropriate checklist.

The new beta is boasting features like increased security, tabbed browsing and a retooled interface to name a few. For the time being, Microsoft seems to at least have caught up to Firefox. Will this shift the balance of power back in Microsoft's favor? Will IT departments escape the dual-browser support model? Will Firefox be extinguished?

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CSS Compliance? by markmcb :: NR7

Has anyone seen any sort of CSS compliance reviews yet on MSIE 7? I'm sure any web developer will agree that MSIE 6 has been quite the pain for way too long. I just hope that's not the case with 7. I did see that it's going to support the standard HTTPXMLRequest calls that all of the other browsers have been supporting. I've got my fingers crossed!

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IE will not extinguish Firefox by stopgap :: NR4

I would wager that Firefox development community is much more agile than MS IE development group. IE7 merely catches up to where Firefox is now. If IE7 introduces anything worthwhile, Firefox will have it in matter of months as a plug-in, which, if worthy, will be incorporated into the main browser in the next release.

The Firefox camp seems much quicker to react to security issues also. It took MS a week and persistent pressue from security researchers to react to the .WMF vulnerability earlier this year. In fact, some guy from Europe came out with a fix before MS did. Firefox patches to security holes are often available within 24 hours of exploit announcement.

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