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Firefox 2.0 shows promise but UI needs a face lift
Published October 27th, 2006 in All Categories, Firefox, Reviews
The install was smooth and fast and the first time load was fast as well. Once installed, I noticed 
that load times for IE7 and Firefox 2.0 were roughly the same. To get some official numbers, I used Process Explorer to measure the specifics on CPU time and I/O usage…Now let’s look at the GUI (Graphical User Interface) for these two brand new browsers from Mozilla and Microsoft. This is one area Microsoft seems to have leapfrogged the competition and put a lot of work in to the User Interface.
In the default view for both browsers, you’ll notice a long grey bar in Firefox 2.0 that doesn’t seem to serve any purpose other than to waste screen space. Maybe it can be used for customization or something, but I haven’t figured out what to do with it yet and it never shows anything different when I’m surfing a webpage. The classic menu bar for IE7 is hidden in this view. ยป Firefox 2.0 shows promise but UI needs a face lift | George Ou | ZDNet.com
