Firefox 2.0.0.4 vs IE 7.0

Internet,one of the man's greatest technological development in which the whole world depend upon in later years.It has been a decade until now,Internet Explorer has bagged the first place among the web browsers and not anymore when Mozilla corporation launched Mozilla Firefox in 2004.In 1995, after the launch of Microsoft Windows 95,IE dominated the opera and netscape.In last few couple of years IE has been kicked back in the web arena by firefox and google.This blog is about the cold war between IE and Mozilla in recent years.

Recently in 2006, IE 7.0 has been released which seems to everyone that it might be the most comfortable web browser but it wasn't true as Mozilla launched Firefox 2.0.0.4 which still remained powerful in blocking intrusion thefts and phishing attacks.The Mozilla Foundations hired SmartWare, a business strategy firm, to release a study comparing the 2 products and their anti-phishing features.

Check this CNET Prizefight Comparison :

According to SecurityFocus, "Firefox 2.0 blocked 79 percent of the malicious sites just using the local black list of phishing URLs and blocked 82 percent of phishing sites using the real-time Google filtering feature. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7's anti-phishing features blocked only 66 percent of the sites with its auto-check feature enabled and only 2 percent with the autocheck feature disabled."

The security site also mentioned that "there were 243 instances where Firefox 2.0 blocked the phishing site, but Internet Explorer 7 did not. Another 117 instances where Internet Explorer 7 blocked a phishing site and Firefox 2.0 did not. In 65 instances, neither browser's anti-phishing tool blocked the site. The PhishTank data is not used by either browser as part of the decision of whether to block a site or not, according to Mozilla."

The future developments of Mozilla is that Firefox 3.0 has heightened my expectation because of its new functionality called FUEL ( Firefox User Extension Language) which seems to reduce the amount of time in developing addon.Already there are lots of addons and plugins for Mozilla and this might change the people's mind to mozilla.Some of the addons :

1. Sage
2. Scribefire
3. FireFTP
4. Greasemonkey
5. Foxytunes
6. Yoono