Screen Real Estate Comparison 2 - IE7 vs. Firefox
In the comments of my last post about screen real estate comparisons between Firefox and the new IE7, Robert Aitchison wanted me to compare the two without all the 3rd party toolbars installed.
How about the copmparison without all the 3rd party toolbars loaded?, or alteas cut it down to one.
Also you’ll notice that Firefox has a menu bar while IE7 does not, I’ll admin I haven’t used IE7 but it seems like not having a menu bar would be extremely limiting.
So, I decided to do an additional little comparison without the toolbars. As you can see, IE7 still has a significant savings over Firefox. Internet Explorer 7 is actually 35% smaller than Firefox by comparison.
As noted in some of the other comments though, the biggest gap right now between the two is going to be the availability and diversity of extensions/add-ons. Some of those I’m really missing. The Firefox extensions that I’ve got installed and am using are:
- IE Tab (Not needed)
- CoLT (really miss this)
- PDF Download
- Print It (Not needed anymore)
- CoComment
- Performancing
- DownThemAll
As you can see, he was also concerned about there not being a menu bar. I really haven’t missed it personally. How about you?
Let me know in the comments if you use and miss the menu bar and what add-ons are must haves for IE7.
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3 opinions for Screen Real Estate Comparison 2 - IE7 vs. Firefox
Alfred Thompson
Oct 23, 2006 at 9:26 am
I haven’t missed the menu bar much. But you can have one if you want. Thre is an option under the Tools dropdown to display it.
Jason
Oct 23, 2006 at 9:28 am
That’s a great comment Alfred, I can’t believe I didn’t see this already. Of course, I wasn’t missing the menu bar in the first place, so wasn’t really actively looking for something to show it to me.
Robert Aitchison
Oct 23, 2006 at 12:01 pm
Thanks for revisiting this.
As for the menu bar, I guess this is an example of how not all features of a given program are used by all users (I’ve heard statistics that for some large complecated apps that 90% of users don’t use 90% of features).
I guess I’ve just learned to use the menu bar but obviously if you don’t then it’s just wasted screen real estate.
Again thanks for the helpful follow up.
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