October sees two new browser releases with Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0

Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer, the planet’s largest Internet browsers, released huge upgrades this month. IE 7.0 plays catchup to many of its competitors, adding features such as the popular tabbed browsing. Microsoft enhanced the feature with QuickTabs, which reduces tabs to tiled thumbnails for a simple view. They also added integrated search and support of RSS feeds, improved print functions and enhanced security touches. Even if you don’t download it yourself, you’ll get the installer automatically via Windows Update, so IE users enjoy! As for the Firefox 2.0 update, Mozilla made a new interface, better security, improved crash protection and other small but useful tweaks.

As expected, both browser releases were not without bugs. Experts have found a weakness in Internet Explorer 7.0 called the “Spoofing Bug”. It is a bug that allows a Web site to display a pop-up that can contain a spoofed web address, which attackers could exploit to trick people into believing they’re on a trusted website. Bug hunters have found two bugs in Firefox 2.0 that Mozilla’s security chief says are “just noise” and have been fixed, adding “we think it’s great that the security community is working so hard to help us identify bugs”.