Browser Security News

We spoke with key executives from the The Mozilla Foundation last week, and they were unfazed by the release of Internet Explorer 7. On the contrary, they claimed that the release will open the public’s eyes to the idea that they have a choice of web browsers, and that the Internet isn’t defined by the blue "e" that exists on the Windows desktop.

A new version of Firefox, 2.0, will be released on Tuesday, on the heels of the big IE7 launch. And while it doesn’t bring changes anywhere near as drastic as those seen in the first new version of IE in five years, it will bring some interface, security, and back-end advances. The upgrade offers some new features, but is primarily a tightening and polishing of the existing program.

Mozilla’s take is that they don’t want to change what people are comfortable with, and don’t want to load up the product with features, instead preferring to deliver a clean, easy-to-grok interface that can be extended by installing however many of the nearly 2000 extensions available. Firefox Developers Not Scared of IE7