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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Tuesday, October 24, 2006Mozilla Ships Firefox 2.0 ... It's a DudMe, in WinInfo:Today, Mozilla will officially unveil Firefox 2.0, the latest version of its Web browser and, increasingly, a credible challenger to Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE). Unfortunately, some of Firefox's more trend-setting features have been delayed to a later release, and the new release suffers as a result. What's left is pretty unimpressive.Ed Burnette at ZDNet offers a rebuttal of sorts. However, I think he's missing one important point here: Phishing protection. Paul says IE's is better, and I haven't put them to the test so I can't say. But the presence of this protection at all is surely a boon to Firefox users, and it will only get better with time.Well, IE 7's phishing filter was more highly rated, yes. The phishing filter that's built into Firefox 2.0 is a joke. You have two options: The built-in version, which literally uses a lame (and immediately out of date) white list/black list system. Or you can use Google's low-rated and privacy-challenged phishing filter. A better bet is the excellent Netcraft toolbar, which isn't as good as IE 7, but is much better than the two options Mozilla provides. Anyway, I don't mean to suggest that Firefox 2.0 is worthless. It's still arguably as good or better than IE 7. But it's such a tiny incremental upgrade from Firefox 1.5. They should have just called it 1.6. [ Posted at 9:46 PM | Permalink ]
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