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Firefox 2.0: Not Radical, but Just Right
Published November 3rd, 2006 in All Categories, Firefox
There’s no denying that Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 7 release is a heftier upgrade than 
Mozilla’s new Firefox 2.0 release. Where Microsoft has significantly added to the feature set, Mozilla has tweaked its feature set. (It was already ahead in the features war.) The question is: Are those tweaks enough to keep the open-source browser on top?
When I asked Computerworld readers (in last week’s “Firefox 2 First Impressions” story) what they liked and disliked most about Firefox 2.0, the answers were a little surprising.
The most thumbs-up feature was inline spell checking. Spell checking for a browser? Anyone who writes blogs, forum posts or blog comments, or who works in Web forms on social networking sites, for example, will find Firefox’s spelling checker a boon. Firefox 2.0: Not Radical, but Just Right
