wired.com— A couple of the year's most-anticipated releases -- new versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox -- arrive within a week of one another. So which one is best? Wired Magazine finds out.
Oct 26, 2006View in Crawl 4
I totally agree with the parent, but this is no place for that.Between this 2, FF is the winner, IE7 has nothing really new besides the need for new hacks for it to behave properly.
What bugs me the most about Opera, and admittedly I haven't used it in awhile, is the horrible interface with all the buttons and tabs. Everything is big and bulky. I also don't like the MDI style, either. One window, one web page. Not one window with tons of web page windows inside it. Also take a look at current browsers, the interface is as minimal as possible. I'm looking at Safari right now and I see: Back, Forward, Home, Refresh, Menu, Search. That's it. Even IE7 is going minimal. Opera, from what I recall, has junk all over the place.
Firefox got rid of a feature I liked, the x in the right hand side of the tab bar that would close the active tab. Now I have to click on each tab to close it.IE7's interface is a joke.The only thing that bugged me about the comments here is that Firefox is abbreviated Fx, not FF, FX or Ff. True Fx fans know this. ;)
Timdigg, I agree, the button placement in IE7 is idiotic, and the worst part is that you can't change it. scroundy , if you don't know, you can put the home button anywhere you want in Opera. All you do is right click on a toolbar, and select "customize". You can now drag and drop buttons and search bars to any toolbar you want, or remove any buttons you do not want.
This article , like others, ignores one major flaw in IE7. You can't modify the interface in any meaningful way. I get the feeling that I am one of the few who are sticklers for being able to customize things. I have become accustomed to arranging the buttons and search bars in my web browsers a certain way, so for me the locked-in-stone interface in IE7 is psychologically painful to use. I'll stick with Opera.
cesclaveriaOct 26, 2006
I totally agree with the parent, but this is no place for that.Between this 2, FF is the winner, IE7 has nothing really new besides the need for new hacks for it to behave properly.
randomgeekOct 26, 2006
What bugs me the most about Opera, and admittedly I haven't used it in awhile, is the horrible interface with all the buttons and tabs. Everything is big and bulky. I also don't like the MDI style, either. One window, one web page. Not one window with tons of web page windows inside it. Also take a look at current browsers, the interface is as minimal as possible. I'm looking at Safari right now and I see: Back, Forward, Home, Refresh, Menu, Search. That's it. Even IE7 is going minimal. Opera, from what I recall, has junk all over the place.
jesiroseOct 26, 2006
Firefox got rid of a feature I liked, the x in the right hand side of the tab bar that would close the active tab. Now I have to click on each tab to close it.IE7's interface is a joke.The only thing that bugged me about the comments here is that Firefox is abbreviated Fx, not FF, FX or Ff. True Fx fans know this. ;)
mnordhoffOct 26, 2006
cesclaveria, don't you mean IE 7 SP 1 vs. Firefox 5.0.3.6.0.0.9.1.2? ;)
poraciousOct 27, 2006
Actually, to counter my own comment, text/xml is handled - It'll just show you the DOM tree. My bad.
jmzookOct 27, 2006
Timdigg, I agree, the button placement in IE7 is idiotic, and the worst part is that you can't change it. scroundy , if you don't know, you can put the home button anywhere you want in Opera. All you do is right click on a toolbar, and select "customize". You can now drag and drop buttons and search bars to any toolbar you want, or remove any buttons you do not want.
jmzookOct 27, 2006
This article , like others, ignores one major flaw in IE7. You can't modify the interface in any meaningful way. I get the feeling that I am one of the few who are sticklers for being able to customize things. I have become accustomed to arranging the buttons and search bars in my web browsers a certain way, so for me the locked-in-stone interface in IE7 is psychologically painful to use. I'll stick with Opera.
Closed AccountOct 27, 2006
In Opera you can't even print page x of y. What a lame browser.