High Level Product Comparative Analysis: Mozilla Firefox 2

last modified, December, 2006 by rebron
Product Name: Mozilla Firefox 2
Company Name: Mozilla Corporation
General


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.
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
Product Assesment:


Other notes:



Outstanding Questions:
System Requirements



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
Download Size: Has not mattered in the past.  Mostly distributed via OEM and OS sales, and Windows Update.
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:
Breadth



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
Current Languages:
Character Set support: Roman languages, Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, more.
Business




Business model
Reach
  • rough estimate: 300MM active users, 70-75% of the global Web browser market
Date of most recent release:


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