The results differ due to the way both browsers approach Phishing.
With IE7, the user is asked upon installation whether he wants to allow the browser to auto-check all Web sites against a Microsoft database (...) Firefox's default setting, in contrast, uses a blacklist of known phishing sites that is stored on the user's computer and updated approximately every 30 minutes. Alternatively, Firefox users can opt to turn auto-detect on, in which case the browser will check Web sites the user visits by checking them against a database maintained by Google. (source)
At the end of the day, this is not a battle of the browsers, although the headline sort of treats it as such. The growing concern is that even if both browsers can block of phishing sites, 20-40% of these still get through.
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