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10-03-2005, 04:14 AM
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 Similarities in IE and Firefox.
Hello,
I'm currently working on an compare/contrast essay of the two browsers and I can't seem to find anything similar about them, except the are both browsers used to surf the net.
Is there actually any similar features about the two? Maybe I'm not looking hard enough or something. 
Thanks,
Justin.
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10-03-2005, 04:19 AM
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The tabbed browsing feature in Firefox is also seen in IE7?
Erm... the icon layout at the top are almost identical?
*shrug* 
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10-03-2005, 04:22 AM
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Similarities:
back, forward, refresh, stop and home buttons. An address bar.
File, edit, view, tools and help menus.
Both user agents start off with Mozilla (although Firefox is the only one using it correctly, IE initially used it so that websites didn't look like crap in their browser).
Contrasts:
IE is Buggy and less secure. Firefox has had only one major hole and has proven to be much more secure than IE.
Firefox has tabs, IE doesn't (but it will in 7.0)
Now that I think of it anything not mentioned in the Similarities section above will be in this section.
It may help you to compare IE 7.0 (currently in beta) with Firefox because they copied dozens of Firefox's features in this version. It will make the list of similarities between them much larger than if you used any other version of IE.
Good luck with your essay.
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10-03-2005, 04:47 AM
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Dont forget about Bookmarks, history and the LINKS toolbar.
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10-03-2005, 04:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Dray
Dont forget about Bookmarks, history and the LINKS toolbar.
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IMO these would be under Contrasts. There called different things in the browsers (even though the concepts are the same).
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10-03-2005, 07:40 PM
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Wikipedia should be able to help you out!
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10-03-2005, 09:26 PM
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They both have a good implementation of various things (think [X]HTML, CSS, DOM, JS, etc, etc) which can provide both similarities (eg, Both support HTML, right?) and differences (eg, box model issues, non-XHTML-compliancy, CSS selectors, etc).
There is a huge amount that could be written on this subject so you might really want to narrow it down to one or two particular issues/points. I could write a major piece of literary work on that darned box model. Which is a tiny portion of the grand browser world.
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10-03-2005, 09:59 PM
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10-03-2005, 10:03 PM
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They both have a certain amount of specific 'filters'. Although they do the same thing, really. They're just different codes.
Like opacity and such.
Actually.. I think even khtml has this.
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10-03-2005, 10:04 PM
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Both have a history feature activated by Ctrl + H...
Both are free..
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