Get Rid of Internet Explorer - Browse Happy!

Matt writes "BrowseHappy not only tells us why IE is unsafe, but also provides "switcher" stories of people that stopped using IE and switched to a safer browser. This campaign is not so much against IE, but for the use of safer and more user-friendly browsers."

Argh!

[BluRBD!E]

My eyes! Ze goggles, zey do nothing!

i want my voice counted!!!

[knowles420]

i have dumped ie (and outlook, blech.) for mozilla and my computer has never been more gooder.

Re:Safari!

[WIAKywbfatw]

Safari! Need I say more?

I think hunting down IE users for sport is a bit of overkill, don't you?

Browse Happy?

[SourKAT]

... need a porn friendly browser!

Re:Browse Happy?

[B747SP]

a porn friendly browser!

OI!!! I resemble that remark!

Re:Safari!

[desmogod]

Not really, no.

Preaching To The Choir

[nwbvt]

The choir says "Halleluia"!
The congregation says Firewhat?

Seriously, does anyone who reads slashdot these days really need someone to point out the advantages of mozilla/firefox/opera/safari/whatever? Is this really news?

Re:i want my voice counted!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

I didn't know George Bush posted on Slashdot!

(hurr hurr i am liberal slashdot comedian)

What are you talking about? My IE is working great

[very]

I use IE all the time

This one time, I got an email from Citibank I need to veerify my account information!
All I have to do is to click the link with bunch of characters in it, then it loads the seemingly legitimate Citibank website. Then I enterd my account name and password, plus all the other informations. There I veerify my Citibank account using IE.

Meanwhile, Mozilla browser and Mozilla Firefox can't even load the page.

Now, which browser is broken?
Definitely not IE.

By the way, for some strange reason, my Citibank password is no longer working shortly after that.







(sarcasm mode turned off)

Re:Safari!

[twenty-exty-six]

I think hunting down IE users for sport is a bit of overkill, don't you?

You're either with us or against us. Now prepare for the hunt!

Yes, you are.

[Garabito]

I've always found the IE just works

So does your X10 camera, DVD backup software, Debt Consolidation Program...

Re:Am I the only person that thinks IE is ok?

[utopyr]

Am I the only person that thinks IE is ok?

Yes.

Re:WooHoo

[frankthechicken]

Ms. Sandlin is just asking for trouble.

Everyone knows that leaving a large warning stating that on no accounts is anyone to touch the big blue button, is practically an order to press the damn thing.

Im not switching to Opera

[Proc6]

http://browsehappy.com/people/david/

It turns your hair green.

Re:Stick / Dead Horse...,

[Pieroxy]

I explain that if [...], they will need my services less frequently

It looks like your line of work (spyware removal) is going to die from your own word.

Re:Yeah.... right.

[myowntrueself]

"Brushing your teeth is a fight against tooth decay, not denture companies."

Tooth decay is a hoax perpetuated by dental industry in an effort to get you to buy useless appliances and pastes. I havn't seen any evidence to support the need to brush your teeth ever.

Change your little blue icon!

[Mr. Flibble]

On some work computers I have changed the Firefox Shortcut to appear exactly as the IE shortcut - I used the same icon, and renamed the shortcut to "Internet Explorer".

I then placed the shortcuts in the same places that you normally find IE.

No one noticed. Not one single person.

Makes things easier for some people sometimes.

Re:Preaching to the Choir

[x136]

migrated to Mozilla after the rash of security issues arose with IE.

Wow, must've been an early adopter. :)

Deja Vu

[waldoj]

Why would this be a good thing? Imagine the nightmares web page designers would have to go through if they had to support two completely different non-standards-compliant browsers. We'd need to use several different browsers on a day-to-day basis just to view all the pages correctly.

Welcome to 1998. I'll be your host.

-Waldo Jaquith

Describe the pain

[Doc Ruby]

It's like a neverending icecream headache!

Try this hotfix.

[Anonymous Coward]

It takes a while to download all [planetmirror.com] three [planetmirror.com] files [planetmirror.com], but after you burn them to CD and install them on all of your MS-Windows machines, you'll never have to worry about running Windows Update (or any other ActiveX one-way trips) again.

They don't require registration, you can change your PC's configuration as much as you like, and they have a few free applications thrown in [cyberknights.com.au] as well!

Re:Preaching to the Choir

[Gooba42]

So you can have an "Offically" unsupported product?

Re:I switched too

[Anonymous Coward]

mice have legs. not wheels.

Easy there Private

[MexicanMenace]

Imagine the nightmares web page designers would have to go through if they had to support two completely different non-standards-compliant browsers.

Calm down there sonny and remember to salute your superior officers. Some of us have already been through BW I and II, as well as few "Browser Actions" like the launch of NN 6.0.

Boy howdy, I remember those days. You had to make sure your Palette had the Web-Safety on or BLAM!, colors bleeding all over a Mac browser IT WAS HORRIBLE!

Sniff a browser incorrectly and the Flash movie you had on point was as dead as an MIDI file without an <embed> tag in Netscape.

You just make sure and stick to JavaScript object detection insted of browser detection and it won't make a hill of beans difference WHAT kind of new fangled whojeewhatsis they come up with to view web pages, you'll do just fine .

Now put down that ActiveX Control sonny, we don't want you hopped up and going through any kind of delusions of granduer when you're out in the jungle.

DIS-missed *salutes*