Is IE7 a cheap rip-off of Mozilla Firefox?

[Skelsgard]

Or all of Firefox cool features?.
Your comments.....

[Mug Funky]

i'd say it's an expensive rip-off :)

one of the guys at work uses it a lot, but i think more in a testing manner. it doesn't appear to offer anything over firefox (and thanks to extensions it probably never will).

[Sirber]

at least they didn't rip off CSS support. IE7 still screw completly acid2 test. Only Opera 9 pass it :p

[Waleska]

http://secunia.com/ :D

http://secunia.com/graph/?type=sol&period=all&prod=4932/default.png

http://secunia.com/graph/?type=sol&period=all&prod=4227/default.png

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[MrTroy]

http://secunia.com/graph/?type=sol&p...32/default.pngThanks for proving what I've been claiming for months. :cool:

[Latexxx]

Is Firefox a cheap rip-off of Opera? Opera had tabs first.

[Schrade]

Is Firefox a cheap rip-off of Opera? Opera had tabs first.

Opera also had that horrible MDI interface. /shiver I remember suffering through that when I went from Netscape -> Opera and then when Mozilla came out I immediately switched.

Opera is a great browser, but it still has some rough edges they need to polish. Just like the Firefox team needs to polish Firefox's memory problems with certain extensions.

[Skelsgard]

The new IE7 just looks like they took Firefox and paste "Internet Explorer" on it.

[videomixer9]

They got an annoying and useless phishing filter which at least seemed to slow down browsing if disabled which is kinda dumb. Also there is no essential plugins like NoScript, CookieSafe and Adblock Plus available for IE7, and most addons for IE are even payware and mostly doing there job more bad then good :P

Worst thing is that IE7 seems to support e.g. hover in css for all objects so you could e.g. do all CSS menus and popups but you can't as margins and borders are screwed totally so that you cannot get shit placed where it is supposed to be. Besides IE7 inability to render things served as application/xhtml+xml and more.

I wish it were a ripoff ... but better would be Microsoft stopping to make webbrowsers, they got no clue about it anyways. Opera 9 seemed to need like no fixing at all, what needs fixing is lamers that cannot produce proper HTML code to stop publishing websites. Worst is there's even big companies under it with squads of idiots, or advertising company especially, those companies are usually opened by worlds biggest scum anyways, that cannot code even one correct line.

If someone would build a house in the style some people code HTML they'd be in prison quickly. But as IE forgives you like any shitcode or even requires shitcode to render properly ... sad thing is the mass of tards don't get that it's IE rendering inproperly while everywhere the pages seem to be broken it's rendered correctly. And the coders that produce this piece of shit code usually get angry at you if you tell them that they should stop coding HTML if they're going on to write that kind of shit code.

[Waleska]

Opera is a great browser, but it still has some rough edges they need to polish

Like what exactly?.

[shevegen]

Who knows who cares lets take the web back and have open sourced community driven browsers conquer the web - or at least dedicated companies not focussing on putting-all-things-into-one-system solutions.

I do think that MS very well was persuaded about the usage of tabs :>

Which i find amazing because one of my friends is using IE - and loads a new instance of IE whenever he goes to a new URL ............

[shevegen]

Opera is fine as a general solution. Its good that opera is there.

I dont like Opera that much though, it feels slightly bloated.