Thread: What is the difference between Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox

Can any body tell the Main difference between them according to testing?

Originally Posted by pushpalatha.a

Can any body tell the Main difference between them according to testing?

I think there is no difference between IE and Mozilla from testing point of view.Some tools doesn't support Mozilla browser(For e.g QTP)

When we are testing a Application which is a Web Portal then we will do the Compatability testing to find how it works on different web browsers.

When the Compatability testing is done on a application it will be validated against different network and different environment. So, for a web portal application it will be validated how the application is functioning in different web browsers. Mostly all the applications will be designed in such a way that it supports the IE, since IE will support most of the application. But for an application to work on browsers other than IE it should be tested. Suppose an application designed to work on Mozilla Firefox, then testing should be done to check whether the same works on IE also. In this case compatability testing will be done to check.

Hi ,

From a Testing Perspective and techincally speaking, IE application support Java and javascript enabled applications better compared to Mozilla,

This is beacuse IE conforms to W3C ( World Wide Web Consortium) standards but Mozilla does not fully.

For Instance let us take XML / DOM programming using QTP -

Using IE browsers, XML programming supports more number of methods compared to Mozilla. Methods like 'getElementbyTagName','getElementsbyID' which Mozilla would not reason being that it traverses DOM using javascript methods.

Also trying to capture Text from Alt Images is not possible in Mozilla which is possible in IE.

But on the overall, if you view from a Functional testing perspective, we would not find much differences between IE and Mozilla.

Cheers....

very nice info!!!!!