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October 23rd, 2006

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 […]

By Jason Bean -- 3 comments

October 20th, 2006

Forgetting About Firefox

I’ve been using IE7 now almost exclusively since downloading the final version this week. I’ve already posted that there are some things I like about it compared to Firefox.
Another feature I like is the full-page view of all open tabs.

I’m sure there was a Firefox extension that let me do that as well. That brings […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

October 19th, 2006

Screen Real Estate is Important

It’s not a huge thing, but it is important to me. One of the things I’m really enjoying with the new IE7 is the better use of screen real estate. IE7 takes up about 20% less space for the exact same toolbar configuration as Firefox 1.5. I haven’t downloaded the RC3 candidate for Firefox yet, […]

By Jason Bean -- 5 comments

August 8th, 2006

IE7+ Is Out, IE7 Is In

Microsoft announced today, and by popular opinion, to just go with the straight forward name of IE7 instead of IE7+ for the next version of the browser.
Does this really matter to anyone? Although I agree that just using IE7 is better, is this news? How about we spend less time thinking about what we’re going […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

August 5th, 2006

IE7 Beta 3 Available for Download

If you’re testing Internet Explorer 7 beta, then you’re probably interested in knowing that the beta3 version is now available from Microsoft’s website.
I still haven’t downloaded and tried the beta since the first version. It just didn’t improve things any more than I already had with Firefox. I didn’t like their implementation of the tab […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

April 16th, 2006

Microsoft Hires Technorati Alum for Syndication Development

Niall Kennedy is one of the newest individuals with a Microsoft badge. Niall comes from Technorati and will be work to further develop the syndication efforts that Microsoft will be using in the future through RSS and Atom technology.
“I want RSS and Atom syndication technologies to be available anywhere, integrated as the background technology delivering […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments