The Empire Strikes Back
For quite some time now I’ve been almost exclusively using Mozilla Firefox as my default web browser. It’s speed, reliability, and the tabbed browsing feature made it far superior to Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.
Well it looks like Firefox’s days may be numbered. It may yet face a similar fate to that of it’s ancestor Netscape Navigator back in the 90s. And once again the threat comes from the Microsoft Empire. Today I downloaded the beta release of Internet Explorer 7, and it is that good that I am seriously considering switching back from Firefox. 
Microsoft have added some of Firefox’s useful features such as tabbed browsing and RSS feed handling, and gone one better with improved speed and simply the best rendering of web pages that I have ever seen on a PC. It’s hard to put my finger on where the difference lies but every page just looks simply beautiful. All the fonts and images are clearer and crisper and just plain better looking than in Firefox and IE6. They also have this useful little magnifying glass tool in the bottom right corner which lets you scale the whole page between 10% and 1000%, including not only fonts but images too. It has a pop-up blocker, “phishing” filter, and the facility to add other plugins down the track.
Anyway, it looks like Mozilla have some work to do if they are to regain their innovative lead over Microsoft. I, for one, must reluctantly admit that the evil empire seems to have once again triumphed over the little guys. But don’t just listen to me – you can check it out for yourself here.
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