Which will be released first: IE 7 or Firefox 2?

Anyone care to predict which browser will be released first? The final
version of IE 7 for Windows XP or Firefox 2? My best guess is IE 7, based
on what I've been reading.

History Fan

On 2006-10-13, History Fan <> wrote:

> Anyone care to predict which browser will be released first? The final
> version of IE 7 for Windows XP or Firefox 2? My best guess is IE 7, based
> on what I've been reading.

Does it matter?

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John Thompson wrote:
> On 2006-10-13, History Fan <> wrote:
>
>> Anyone care to predict which browser will be released first? The final
>> version of IE 7 for Windows XP or Firefox 2? My best guess is IE 7, based
>> on what I've been reading.
>
> Does it matter?
>

No, I don't think it does.

FF 2.0 RC3 should come out early next week. I would suspect a release
to follow soon after.

Lee

Leonidas Jones wrote:
> John Thompson wrote:
>> On 2006-10-13, History Fan <> wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone care to predict which browser will be released first?
>>> The final version of IE 7 for Windows XP or Firefox 2? My best guess
>>> is IE 7, based on what I've been reading.
>>
>> Does it matter?
>>
>
> No, I don't think it does.
>
> FF 2.0 RC3 should come out early next week. I would suspect a release
> to follow soon after.
>
> Lee

This is just too funny!

IE& is released:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx

Then:

http://secunia.com/Internet_Explorer...rability_Test/

Lee

Leonidas Jones wrote:
> Leonidas Jones wrote:
>> John Thompson wrote:
>>> On 2006-10-13, History Fan <> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anyone care to predict which browser will be released first?
>>>> The final version of IE 7 for Windows XP or Firefox 2? My best
>>>> guess is IE 7, based on what I've been reading.
>>>
>>> Does it matter?
>>>
>>
>> No, I don't think it does.
>>
>> FF 2.0 RC3 should come out early next week. I would suspect a release
>> to follow soon after.
>>
>> Lee
>
> This is just too funny!
>
> IE& is released:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx
>
> Then:
>
> http://secunia.com/Internet_Explorer...rability_Test/
>
>
> Lee

And everyone in the world must be downloading it right now. I'm dl'ing
it now and the MS site is giving me the file at a whopping 11.3KB/s!!!

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On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:28:45 GMT, Ed Mullen wrote in
news_:

> Leonidas Jones wrote:
>> Leonidas Jones wrote:
>>> John Thompson wrote:
>>>> On 2006-10-13, History Fan
>>>> <> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Anyone care to predict which browser will be
>>>>> released first?
>>>>> The final version of IE 7 for Windows XP or Firefox 2?
>>>>> My best guess is IE 7, based on what I've been reading.
>>>>
>>>> Does it matter?
>>>>
>>>
>>> No, I don't think it does.
>>>
>>> FF 2.0 RC3 should come out early next week. I would
>>> suspect a release to follow soon after.
>>>
>>> Lee
>>
>> This is just too funny!
>>
>> IE& is released:
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx
>>
>> Then:
>>
>> http://secunia.com/Internet_Explorer...y_Content_Disc
>> losure_Vulnerability_Test/
>>
>>
>> Lee
>
> And everyone in the world must be downloading it right now.
> I'm dl'ing it now and the MS site is giving me the file at
> a whopping 11.3KB/s!!!
>

I d/led it yesterday off of Yahoo's site. It was preconfigured
with the Yahoo toolbar. To be honest, despite a strong bias
towards FF, I was very impressed.

A lot of what I liked was because of the well thought-out Yahoo
add-on. It actually makes my own highly customized FF 2.0
install seem dated.

All that being said, I don't intend using IE until we really
learn how its security stacks up relative to FF.

Flatus

Flatus Ohlfahrt wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:28:45 GMT, Ed Mullen wrote in
> news_:
>
>> Leonidas Jones wrote:
>>> Leonidas Jones wrote:
>>>> John Thompson wrote:
>>>>> On 2006-10-13, History Fan
>>>>> <> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyone care to predict which browser will be
>>>>>> released first?
>>>>>> The final version of IE 7 for Windows XP or Firefox 2?
>>>>>> My best guess is IE 7, based on what I've been reading.
>>>>> Does it matter?
>>>>>
>>>> No, I don't think it does.
>>>>
>>>> FF 2.0 RC3 should come out early next week. I would
>>>> suspect a release to follow soon after.
>>>>
>>>> Lee
>>> This is just too funny!
>>>
>>> IE& is released:
>>>
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx
>>>
>>> Then:
>>>
>>> http://secunia.com/Internet_Explorer...y_Content_Disc
>>> losure_Vulnerability_Test/
>>>
>>>
>>> Lee
>> And everyone in the world must be downloading it right now.
>> I'm dl'ing it now and the MS site is giving me the file at
>> a whopping 11.3KB/s!!!
>>
>
> I d/led it yesterday off of Yahoo's site. It was preconfigured
> with the Yahoo toolbar. To be honest, despite a strong bias
> towards FF, I was very impressed.
>
> A lot of what I liked was because of the well thought-out Yahoo
> add-on. It actually makes my own highly customized FF 2.0
> install seem dated.
>
> All that being said, I don't intend using IE until we really
> learn how its security stacks up relative to FF.
>
> Flatus
>
>

I just spent a couple of hours playing with IE7. It's a vast
improvement over IE6. It's CSS compliance is much better. Nothing
revolutionary, nothing that would make me want to change from SeaMonkey.
Still, a nice job by MS. They deserve some credit for this effort.

As for security issues, all browsers have them and will continue to.
The real issue is how fast they get fixed. MS has made great strides in
cleaning up their act in that regard. Perfect? Nope, but, then, no
company, organization or person is.

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Ed Mullen wrote:
> Flatus Ohlfahrt wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:28:45 GMT, Ed Mullen wrote in
>> news_:
>>> Leonidas Jones wrote:
>>>> Leonidas Jones wrote:
>>>>> John Thompson wrote:
>>>>>> On 2006-10-13, History Fan
>>>>>> <> wrote:
>>>>>>> Anyone care to predict which browser will be
>>>>>>> released first? The final version of IE 7 for Windows XP or
>>>>>>> Firefox 2? My best guess is IE 7, based on what I've been reading.
>>>>>> Does it matter?
>>>>>>
>>>>> No, I don't think it does.
>>>>>
>>>>> FF 2.0 RC3 should come out early next week. I would
>>>>> suspect a release to follow soon after.
>>>>>
>>>>> Lee
>>>> This is just too funny!
>>>>
>>>> IE& is released:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx
>>>>
>>>> Then:
>>>>
>>>> http://secunia.com/Internet_Explorer...y_Content_Disc
>>>> losure_Vulnerability_Test/
>>>>
>>>> Lee
>>> And everyone in the world must be downloading it right now.
>>> I'm dl'ing it now and the MS site is giving me the file at
>>> a whopping 11.3KB/s!!!
>>
>> I d/led it yesterday off of Yahoo's site. It was preconfigured with
>> the Yahoo toolbar. To be honest, despite a strong bias towards FF, I
>> was very impressed.
>>
>> A lot of what I liked was because of the well thought-out Yahoo
>> add-on. It actually makes my own highly customized FF 2.0 install seem
>> dated.
>>
>> All that being said, I don't intend using IE until we really learn how
>> its security stacks up relative to FF.
>>
>> Flatus
>>
>>
>
> I just spent a couple of hours playing with IE7. It's a vast
> improvement over IE6. It's CSS compliance is much better. Nothing
> revolutionary, nothing that would make me want to change from SeaMonkey.
> Still, a nice job by MS. They deserve some credit for this effort.
>
> As for security issues, all browsers have them and will continue to. The
> real issue is how fast they get fixed. MS has made great strides in
> cleaning up their act in that regard. Perfect? Nope, but, then, no
> company, organization or person is.
>

I agree. Indeed, the security exploit I pointed out was not
specifically IE7, but one found in IE6 that 7 had not fixed. I just
found the irony of the timing a bit too good to resist!

Lee

Leonidas Jones wrote:

> I agree. Indeed, the security exploit I pointed out was not
> specifically IE7, but one found in IE6 that 7 had not fixed. I just
> found the irony of the timing a bit too good to resist!
>
> Lee

I thought it pretty amusing too.

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