IE7 vs. Everyone Else

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InternetWeek has a thorough four-way comparison of the latest browsers: IE7 Vs. Everyone Else.

I wrote the section on Microsoft’s IE7 Beta 2 Preview for Windows XP. My erstwhile PC Computing cohorts Scot Finnie and Ron White tackled other parts of the story (Firefox and Maxthon, respectively), with Dennis Fowler contributing the Opera review.

TechWeb reviews editor Barbara Krasnoff did a great job putting this long piece together. Go read it, and if you have a comment or question, feel free to leave it here.

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7 thoughts on “IE7 vs. Everyone Else”

  1. Nice layout, lots of info, and four great writers. I’ll spend time with IE7, but will likely stick with Maxthon since it lets me customize virtually every part of the browser.

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  4. Scot Finnie did a horrible job trying to write a persuasive argument to switch to Firefox. The only good thing he had to say about it is that it isn’t IE. He spent more time talking about the bugs reported in Firefox 1.5 than anything else. He failed to mention that these are isolated incidents that often have more to do with poorly written extentions than the browser itself. I have had no trouble with Firefox 1.5.

    Another problem is that no one wrote a single word about my favorite browser: Seamonkey. Why the snuff? Maxathon was given time despite not even being a real browser. It’s just a skin for IE with some added features. I’m not saying this just to insult Maxathon; it’s simply neglectful to leave Seamonkey out of a comprehensive list of browsers.

  5. SeaMonkey and Opera are better than all the reviewed browsers. If you are going to do a comparison of browsers, at least include the two best. SeaMonkey is the next version of the old Mozilla Suite, but even better. Althoug it uses the same Gecko 1.8 rendering engine that Firefox 1.5 uses, SeaMonkey uses less memory and renders faster than firefox. Security wise, SeaMonkey and Firefox are roughly equal. As for IE/Maxathon, I would never use them if you are concerned about security.

    Although SeaMonkey is better than FireFox in terms of performance, SeaMonkey is geared toward expert users who want a lot of functionality and options, so FireFox may be better for newbie users who get confused by too many options.

    The only other browser which is arguably better than SeaMonkey is Opera, which traditionally was considered the most security-conscious browser. I’ve never seen a memory/speed/security comparison between Opera and SeaMonkey, but I bet they are very close. SeaMonkey, however, is free/open source software and Opera isn’t. On that basis, I judge SeaMonkey to be superior.

  6. Oops, I must have missed the Opera section, when I skimmed through the article. My bad.

    Also I want to add that SeaMonkey 1.0 has none of the memory leak problems that FireFox 1.5 has. So I think the reviewers are wrong when they say that FireFox “is the very best browser you can get today, and probably tomorrow.” SeaMonkey is better unless you want newbie-friendliness or one of the FireFox extensions.

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