Mozilla Firebird - Compare Features

This is a corrected/reformulated version of this document. As ever, feature-tables and objective analysis are uneasy bed fellows - this page merely reflects that. I've introduced some other (also biased) comparisons just to show how arbitrary this is, this page takes this further.

	Mozilla Firebird 0.7	IE 6.0	Opera 7.21	Mozilla 1.5	Netscape 4.79	Netscape 7.1
Designed for Simple, Efficient UI	YES	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO
Powerful User Interface out of the box	NO	NO	YES	YES	NO	YES
Automatic Popup Blocking	YES	NO	YES	YES	NO	YES
Tab Browsing, right out of the box	YES	NO	YES	YES	NO	YES
Simplified Privacy Controls	YES	NO	YES	NO	NO	NO
Integrated Search Bar	YES	NO	YES	NO	NO	NO
Smart Form Fill	YES	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO
Automatic Downloading	YES	NO	YES	NO	NO	NO
Find As You Type	YES	NO	YES	YES	NO	YES
Themes	YES	NO	YES	YES	NO	YES
Extensions	YES	NO	YES¹	YES	NO	YES
Full Screen Browsing	YES	YES	YES	YES	NO	YES
Bookmark Panels	YES	NO	YES	NO	NO	NO
Configurable Toolbars	YES	YES	YES	NO	NO	NO
Easy Bookmark Management	YES	NO	YES	YES	YES	YES
Password Manager	YES	NO	YES	YES	NO	YES
Cookie Manager	YES	YES	YES	YES	NO	YES
Good Standards Compliance	YES	NO	YES	YES	NO	YES
Free from Adverts	YES	YES	NO²	YES	NO	NO
Free from Spyware	YES	YES	YES	YES	NO	NO
Actively Developed	YES	NO³	YES	YES	NO	NO

Notes:

Opera uses auto-install INI files and drag'n'drop for extensive changing of UI functions, which can be considered pseudo-extensions (opera has access to over 500 internal commands accessed through human readable INI setups). For example, extensions like the web developer toolbar are also available for Opera. Although much easier for general users to configure, the INI extensions are less powerful than the XUL programming found in Mozilla.
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Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer updates will no longer be released independently from its Windows operating system, thus it is inferred that the next major release of Internet Explorer will be coupled with Longhorn, due in 2005.