Firefox vs MS Internet Explorer

Alternative Web browsers Mozilla and FireFox experienced another month of growth at the expense of Microsoft’s dominant Internet Explorer, according to an online study.

The percentage of Americans using Mozilla and FireFox, two open-source browsers funded by the Mozilla Foundation, grew to 6 percent in October from 5.2 percent in September and 3.5 percent in June. That 6 percent was split evenly between the two browsers. (source)

I used to love Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. I reluctantly tried Firefox, and over time I started to really to see the differences. Sometimes, what makes big differences in software are small, well thought out things. For example, let’s take the Bookmarks. MS Internet Explorer has bookmarks as well, but there isn’t much you can do with them. In Firefox, if you organize your bookmarks in logical groups, you can open every item in the group in it’s own separate tab. That's really cool. It’s a small, well thought out thing, but it gets a lot of mileage with me.

Another thing that I love are all the plug-ins that you can add on to Firefox. If you want a spell checker, there is a plug in for that.

In light of this, what do we hear from Microsoft? Nothing. What updates are they putting out for Internet Explorer. None.