8 Internet Explorer, Firefox Features That Matter Most To Businesses

1. Remote Management
Eighty-three new group policy settings in Internet Explorer 7 mean more common functionality across a company. Firefox needs plug-ins to manage remotely.

2. Tabbed Browsing
Multiple pages can be opened in the same window, tabbed like a folder of legal documents. IE7 adds this; Firefox improved it. Think productivity.

3. Security
IE7's big step up: selective ActiveX blocking, one-step history deletion, anti-spoofing and phishing filters, and better pop-up blocking. Firefox adds phishing protection but never had the depth of security problems.

4. Search
Search bar added inside IE7; it can be programmed to work with enterprise search products such as those from Oracle and Google. Firefox already has these capabilities.

5. Feeds
Get news and eventually sales data and calendar items streaming into the browser with integrated RSS feed readers; new for IE7, improved for Firefox.

6. Standards
IE7 makes it easier on Web developers by complying more thoroughly with World Wide Web Consortium standards like CSS and DOM.

7. Printing
IE7 shrinks a Web site to page size.

8. Saves
Firefox can restore the last browser session, even after the browser suffers a fatal error.

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