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...have heard that the makers of the two leading web browsers launched their latest totally free editions, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla's Firefox 2, within a week of each other. Feature-wise, most news reports have already declared a winner: the long-awaited IE7 may be a vast improvement over its predecessors, but the new Firefox leaves it in the dust. While that's mainly true, here's what you need to know about each one, and why you should have them both on your Windows PC. (Firefox 2 is available for Mac users, although Internet Explorer...
...Microsoft's IE developers knew that they were up against Firefox's very successful earlier versions, so they plucked a few key elements for the IE7 design. For starters, the navigation bar of the browser takes up very little room, allowing more space for the websites themselves. The familiar buttons-refresh, home, favorites and one-touch print-are all nestled in, but when you start it up, IE7 doesn't display the "menu bar," containing all of the deeper options people tend not to use on a daily basis...
...filters are more crucial, and tend to be of great help to the less savvy web surfers. Phishing is the malicious art of capturing people's personal information by making them think they're at one website-a bank or favorite shopping site-when they're really at another. Microsoft and Mozilla have created constantly updated databases of known or suspected phishing sites. Both browsers employ those databases to block a user from surfing into danger. The feature is invisible if you are in safe waters, but when you land on a phishing website, the browser will alert...
...toolbar. As you begin typing your search terms, Firefox anticipates your intention. For example, if you type "c-o-f-f", Firefox adds the "e-e" and even suggests "break" and "tables" and other terms to pinpoint your investigation. It's a great one-up on IE7, but Microsoft actually has a search trick that Firefox doesn't. If you would like to add a search engine to the toolbar, Firefox directs you to a page that only someone with a few years of college computer science classes would understand. Microsoft, on the other hand, gives you a clear three...
...right back to them. Firefox also comes with a smart new spellchecker. If you're typing in an e-mail, blog entry or online comment form, it puts a little red line under dubious spellings. Right-click the word to see correctly spelled suggestions. Ironically, it just like using Microsoft Word. It worked in Hotmail, although it didn't work in AIM's web mail program. Mozilla says its up to webmasters to enable or disable the feature...