101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that IE cannot.

[spaceman]

I swapped to using IE over Mozilla/Netscape about 5 years ago. But just recently I've swapped back, mainly due to a single feature that the Netscape browser has that IE doesn't: tabbed browsing. It's the ability to have multiple web page or sites loaded up in a single browser window, and a simple click of a tab selects the page you want to look at. I think this feature is particularly appealing to web developers and other 'power' users like myself, but less so to your average home user (half of whom still don't know that you're 'allowed' to open more than one browser window at a time). Oh - and an extension of this feature is that you can bookmark ALL of the page tabs as a single group. Very nice.

Anyhow, I've just spotted this info. Thought others might enjoy:

101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that IE cannot.

I expect a dedicated IE user could pick some holes.

I wonder how Microsoft will respond with IE7? Does Mozilla/Netscape now have copyright over tabbed browsing? I doubt it. Or are all these extra features in Mozilla/Netcape a case of 'too little too late'?

Food for thought.

[Wavelan]

One Thing IE can do but Mozilla cannot:

Inserting Flash according to the W3C standards

[Rick]

I find that I normally have far too many IE windows open at once for me to remeber which was doing what. But I can live with that as its as easy for me to press ALT and TAB as it is for me to switch sites in Mozilla.

However the ability to prevent pop-up windows opening, block images from cartain sites (well know banner add serving sites for example) etc has kept me using Mozilla on my main computers rather than IE.

In fact thinking about it I could probably list 101 things

The main issue for me is standards compliance. I am a big fan of this and prefer browsers that support standards rather than their own standards (i.e. IE!)

Rick

[M. Johansson]

www.netcaptor.com

IE with tabbed browsing and about 9 bazillions of other great features. Probably not too far of what IE7 will look like.

myIE2 is also a good free alternative.

[blufive]

Now I'm a mozilla cheerleader, but some of those 101 things are kinda vague, or only perceived as an advantage by some people.

One Thing IE can do but Mozilla cannot:
Inserting Flash according to the W3C standards

Wrong. Go read this: http://www.alistapart.com/stories/flashsatay/

[Skunk]

I'll be very surprised if IE7 features tabbed browsing, or anything else particularly exciting (though hopefully they'll finally fix their remaining CSS bugs). Microsfot sdon't have any reason to innovate - with 95% of the browser market they are very unlikely to "rock the boat" by introducing new browser features.

Innovation in IE is pretty much dead - all the more reason to switch to a better alternative

As for tabs-vs-new-browser windows, tabs have two distict advantages. Firstly, you can "group" your browser windows. I frequently have two Mozilla windows open, each with multiple tabs - one contains windows relevant to whatever I'm working on and the other contains windows to do with stuff I'm blogging / browsing. Alternatively I'll have a new window open to research a topic and keep all the tabs related to that project in that window. Secondly, tabs are much better performance wise. I frequently have upwards of 30 tabs open in a couple of Mozilla windows, on a Win98 machine with 192MB of RAM. Try running that many IE windows and the system quickly grinds to a halt.

IE's only advantage these days is the fact that some advanced MS-only web scripting techniques (such as contentEditable) unsurprisingly only work in IE. For general browsing I haven't run across a site that doesn't work in Mozilla in months.

[Wavelan]

Originally posted by blufive
Now I'm a mozilla cheerleader, but some of those 101 things are kinda vague, or only perceived as an advantage by some people.


Wrong. Go read this: http://www.alistapart.com/stories/flashsatay/

Perfect, thankyou very much.

I knew there must have been a way to do it, wow that helps a lot of my problems.

[jamesxv7]

Hi:

Thank you for the reference. Very technical but who cares reason 101?

[KLB]

I know something IE does better than Mozilla, in default mode, it easily installs any Active-X that comes down the pipe allowing one to aquire any and all scumware/spyware IE comes across.

[xhtmlcoder]

Yes, M$ Explorer even allows you to use CSS to trigger JavaScript (even when scripting is disabled via the M$ browser) yeah dangerous security flaw there.

[jamesxv7]

Thanks xhtmlcoder for give us some hack tricks! Lets got explode it

[xhtmlcoder]

It's very worrying:

<p style="background: url(javascript:alert('Hello'));">

Replace the _ in the sample above and it becomes dangerous. No, I don't condone using such nasty code as it helps no-one.

[cfm]

Most of those things can be accomplished by using IE with Avant. And the ActiveX thing can be fixed by setting ZoneAlarm Pro to disable ActiveX controls.

Many people (particularly on SP... ) say that Firebird or any Mozilla/Gecko-based browser is better than IE. What they fail to mention is that it is better than IE for them. Individual preferences must be considered. That's why I used Avant instead of Mozilla: Mozilla may be the "better" browser on counts of standards-compliance, but Avant suits me better.

Just my typical two cents.

[KLB]

compuwhiz7, well said. Like many here I'm anything but MSFT, but I agree. What constitutes the best browser is the one that suits one's needs best.