IE7: What Does It Have That Firefox Doesn’t?

August 14th, 2005 • Related • Filed Under

I’ve been having a play around with IE7 and to be honest I haven’t seen anything yet that would make me desert Firefox. The only features I’ve seen that IE7 has so far that Firefox doesn’t are:

  • A slight improvement on the back/next buttons. Instead of having a separate list of “previous” and “next” pages for the Back and Forward buttons, it now combines the various recently viewed pages into a single list.
  • The Stop and Refresh buttons are now combined into one and displayed next to the Address bar
  • Shrink to Fit print option (IE is awful for printing) - now pages will fit to the page rather than getting cropped

Although IE7 is an improvement and includes tabs support, search toolbars and RSS processing plus security improvements, it still doesn’t do enough for me to close the gap on Firefox and Opera.

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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    Comment by Anonymous on 1 February 2006:

    IE 7 ROCKS !!! hey ppl ! learn to admire things regardles of opensource or closedsource.FF is good,it doesn't mean that every IE version is worst !
    Take a close look at IE7 b4 flaming it.
    asanga.lk@gmail.com

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