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Sunday 22 August 2004
don’t worry, browse happy
AS CONCERNED CITIZENS of the web, the Web Standards Project encourages you to browse happy.
Visit our new site, browsehappy.com, to learn about the browsers we are advocating and why. Encourage your friends – even your gran – to drop by!
Filed under: standards
Posted by: Molly | 14:18 | Comments (14)
Nice, but why are all these happy surfers men?
Don’t ask that Anon, you’ll start another gender war.
Seriously though, this website is a great idea, surprised it had taken this long for it to come along though. Another site, with more information, is Switch2Firefox that is a great site to direct people to if you want to switch them to just Firefox. BrowseHappy is good too, I’ve linked to it yesterday on my site, 3DGPU in hopes of educating the legions of gamers that visit and hopefully get people to stop using IE.
Are you looking for women who have changed browsers. My sister in law changed to Firwfox recently after my repeated strenuous calls to do so. I might be able to get her to do something for the site.
Yes, Simon, I was wondering the same thing – apparently this was unintended as one of the women profiles dropped out. Please have anyone interested in being profiled submit their profile to BrowseHappy:
http://browsehappy.com/people/you/
And thanks for the support!
To counter one of the switcher’s stories about remaining vigilant with IE6:
Anti-virus software is still needed for other browsers and e-mail apps. AVG’s free version is very good and runs automatically.
Pop-ups are history with an install of Windows XP SP2, which updates automatically, too. When Mozilla/Firefox required a security update not too long ago, that was a manual install and I had to learn about it on my own. No WindowsUpdate service helps with that.
Oh, and with a simple macro, Spybot and AdAware can run automatically, too. Sure, too much for the casual PC user but other browsers require manual SpyBot protection, too.
- A multiple-browser user who prefers Firefox but cannot let go of IE6 because no other browser has a plug-in with full Google toolbar functions.
Anon,
If Windows didn’t have any of the so called ‘ease of use’ features then it wouldn’t be where it is.
On the browser side of things the Mozilla update issue such as the one mentioned is gonna remain for the forseeable future as far as I can tell and in my opinion Mozilla has ways to go to be able to capture the ‘casual user’ but in so far as browsing safely goes there is no comparison – even after SP2.
Speaking of happier browsing, check out Macromedia’s homepage in both Safari and Firefox – it is just me or does Safari provides choppy display of the Flash video at the top compared to Firefox’s smooth as silk rendering?
Speaking of Microsoft, I’ve always thought it would be fun for the open source community to develop replacements for Windows OS elements with ones that do at least the same jobs, only in a good, POSIX compliant way. We could start, for example, with explorer.exe, then move to winlogon, services, dllhost, etc. …
I don’t know, flameworthy, unworthy, intriguing?
Not happy about browse happy
So WaSP has come out with a new campaign to encourage people to drop the internet explorer browser and start…
i try to find something at google.com and take it on your site…thanks
thnks