New browsers: Firefox is still king.

I've been using Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 at home and work since they were released a month ago.

7 is the best IE yet and contains improvements that were sorely past due. It finally adds tabbed browsing and a search field, finally bringing it up to par with Firefox.

Up to par with Firefox 1 maybe. However, Firefox 2 has raised the bar even higher with inline spell checking and even better extension management. Upgrading to Firefox 2 was very pleasant, especially how it went through my add-ons checking for compatibility. The one that wasn't was upgraded for me. Compare that to the IE installation which required a Windows verification and a reboot.

For me the spell checking is reason alone to prefer Firefox, but so is the responsive tabs compared to IE's which are sluggish when switching between them. Not to mention IE's unfortunate UI, including the still awful options window.