Product Name: Mozilla Firefox 2
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Company Name: Mozilla Corporation
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General
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One sentence
description / Positioning statement:
The award-winning Web browser from Mozilla is now faster, even more
secure, and totally customizable to your online life.
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Overall
Impressions:
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Features
- MSIE 7 will include many of the same features of Firefox
including:
- MSIE 7 improvements over IE 6
- MSIE 7 will include these features over Firefox:
- MSIE 7 does not include these features
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Product
Assesment:
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Other
notes:
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Outstanding
Questions:
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System Requirements
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OS:
Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2
Memory: 32 MB of RAM
minimum (doesn't sound right but this is what they published)
Full install size: 12 MB
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Download Size: Has
not mattered in the past. Mostly
distributed via OEM and OS sales, and Windows Update.
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Top 5 key features (what about this product
sets it apart from others in its category)
Reminder
of some the good features in Internet Explorer 6.0 XP SP 2 and earlier:
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Breadth
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Standards
support (need help here to complete)
- UAAG (accessibility standards): good
- CSS support
http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.InternetExplorerSupportforCSS
- supports been improved, but still not as good as Firefox,
Opera, Safari
- SSL 2.0 has been dropped in favor of SSL 3.0 (same
as in Firefox 2)
- Quirks Mode: There are 3 levels? Standards, IE 6 quirks,
and Quirks
(looks like an IE 6 quirks mode has been added?)
- data urls: no support in IE 7
- MathML support: IE 7 doesn't and probably won't support
- OpenType support: will improve (not supported in
Mozilla/Firefox)
- P3P is supported (Mozilla has some support but real world
use/value is questionable)
- PNG support: will see alpha transparency finally in IE 7
- SVG support: probably won't support natively (partial
support in Firefox 1.5+)
- XForms support: not in IE 7
- XBL or XUL support: not in IE 7 or ever
- HTML, HTTP, XML, XSLT: ok
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Current Languages:
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Character Set support: Roman languages,
Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, more.
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Business
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Business model
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Reach
- rough estimate: 300MM active users, 70-75% of the global
Web browser market
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Date of most
recent release:
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support offerings:
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