主题：【IT新闻】火狐“火”起来了，渐渐对IE构成威胁。 -- Highway

首先据说是比IE安全多了，这个我不懂，且相信吧。

我喜欢的主要是易用性。

Tabbed Browsing就不说了，是netscape/mozilla系列的老牌特色，对我已经不可或缺了，看新闻/图片时刷刷一口气点开来几十页在后台自动调入，多爽。不过好象现在有些以IE为内核的浏览器也在模仿这个了。

Popup Blocking现在也不算希奇了，很多工具有。

下面这两个新特性倒是没料到的，特别是RSS feeds，看新闻/weblog很有用，省得我装其他工具了。

# Security improvements: the new release provides additional protection to users against spoofing attacks, the practice of tricking users into believing they are on a trusted site when they are not. When a user visits a secure site, Firefox now highlights the web site address and clearly displays the name of the web site. Firefox also includes a number of other security improvements and fixes, several of which were identified as part of the Mozilla Foundation's new Security Bug Bounty Program.

# Live Bookmarks, which help users discover a new dimension to the web by allowing them to create bookmarks that display dynamically updated content such as news headlines. Live Bookmarks let users view RSS feeds, a technology that web content providers use to easily create and disseminate news headlines and summaries. RSS feeds are offered by thousands of sites, including Yahoo News, BBC.co.uk, CNET News.com and most weblogs.

另外，与搜索相关的也越做越好了。

也要提一下对应的email client，Thunderbird，其中的垃圾邮件过滤器是我现在见过的最好用的和准确性最高的。头几天有一个training的过程，手动纠正了几个，后来到现在就从来没分错过。比我们server端的spamassassin强多了。背后所用的技术，其实还只是machine learning中很粗浅的东西，所以，我对战胜spam信心很足。

http://www.mozilla.org/

微软什么时候能赶得上？看看它的hotmail吧，该删的不删，不该删的倒删了。而且，做web mail的本来应该有一个天然的优势，因为垃圾邮件都是群发的，所以他们那里判断垃圾邮件应该尤其容易。真不知道他们脑子怎么长的。