Problem: because of forgivable ignorance and prominent icon placement, friend/roommate/loved one still uses Internet Explorer. Solution, as engineered by Redditor Permabla: make the more attractive alternatives extremely visible.
My only slight quibble: couldn’t he have pointed his hapless roomie towards Chrome? [Reddit via Geekosystem]
Gotta agree there, there’s nothing wrong about using IE! I mean I don’t, but I think it has improved out of sight from those rat infested starter years.
It doesn’t matter what you think, it only matters what the person using it thinks, bloody I.T. degree, what an arrogant dick, clearly you think your shit doesn’t stink either, idiot.
I despise IE, and for the most part, I agree. The people who tell me to “TOTALLY INSTALL UBUNTU BRO!” (despite knowing full well it’s not appropriate for my needs) or secretly install X program (because it’s sooo much better than what you’re using!)
In this case, I’d have done exactly the same thing. Every now and then, my mother calls me in to ‘clean up my computer because it’s slow’ and guess what? It’s all IE. Banners and toolbars upon toolbars with malware up the wazoo. So I just removed the junk, moved her to Chrome, got an Ad-blocker and it saves me a headache.
I can understand the hate for IE8 and under but IE9 is a graceful and lightweight browser that never gives me any problems. I have ~30 tabs open and it is faster and using less memory than Firefox did with half the tabs. And on the rare occassion that a tab in IE9 stops responding it doesn’t kill the entire browser and IE usually restores the tab in short order.
IE’s improved in leaps and bounds but in the YEARS it’s taken to get there, people have moved to greener pastures. It still doesn’t do anything particularly better than the others, it just matches them. Chrome/Opera are still leaner and more customisable.
Dick hole web designers who put “you’re using an outdated browser” messages up aren’t capable of writing a code that just targets IE6 don’t deserve traffic.
Tim
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 8:39 AMGO FIREFOX!
Roland
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 9:20 AMTroll article…
Jaezass
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 10:27 AMGotta agree there, there’s nothing wrong about using IE! I mean I don’t, but I think it has improved out of sight from those rat infested starter years.
Alan Johnson
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 12:19 PMIt’s not even standards compliant!
Matt
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 4:43 PMAre you serious? IE is awful and you don’t need an I.T. degree to know why, although it does help.
I suggest you get an I.T. degree simply because you need to know.
Antipodean
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 5:53 PMIt doesn’t matter what you think, it only matters what the person using it thinks, bloody I.T. degree, what an arrogant dick, clearly you think your shit doesn’t stink either, idiot.
Stew
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 9:33 AMIf there happy with ie why bother them typical arrogant attitude by software people.
Steve
Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 12:26 AMI despise IE, and for the most part, I agree. The people who tell me to “TOTALLY INSTALL UBUNTU BRO!” (despite knowing full well it’s not appropriate for my needs) or secretly install X program (because it’s sooo much better than what you’re using!)
In this case, I’d have done exactly the same thing. Every now and then, my mother calls me in to ‘clean up my computer because it’s slow’ and guess what? It’s all IE. Banners and toolbars upon toolbars with malware up the wazoo. So I just removed the junk, moved her to Chrome, got an Ad-blocker and it saves me a headache.
sok
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 9:43 AMIts easy. Install the browser you want to point them to (FF/Chrome). Change the icon to the internet explorer icon and make it the default browser.
They probably wont even notice once you import their settings from IE
Jaezass
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 10:29 AMDude seriously? Oh it’s a joke huh? isn’t it?
Sicarius123
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 11:32 AMWow, they could of at least put a better alternative like Chrome.
You just gave your friend a world of memory leaks.
Sicarius123
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 11:46 AMWhoa, and I just saw the safari link.
Backwards nerd is backwards.
Steve
Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 12:22 AMSafari on Windows… Whhattt?
Jason
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 2:54 PMI can understand the hate for IE8 and under but IE9 is a graceful and lightweight browser that never gives me any problems. I have ~30 tabs open and it is faster and using less memory than Firefox did with half the tabs. And on the rare occassion that a tab in IE9 stops responding it doesn’t kill the entire browser and IE usually restores the tab in short order.
Steve
Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 12:23 AMIE’s improved in leaps and bounds but in the YEARS it’s taken to get there, people have moved to greener pastures. It still doesn’t do anything particularly better than the others, it just matches them. Chrome/Opera are still leaner and more customisable.
cleverclogs
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 3:17 PMSeriously, ie9 does everything you could possibly want, surely. Built-in ad-block and that’s that. What exactly is the problem everyone has with IE?
Alan Johnson
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 3:49 PMIE isn’t standards compliant that’s the problem. Many web designers have to write completely different code for people who use IE.
Sicarius123
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 6:11 PMDick hole web designers who put “you’re using an outdated browser” messages up aren’t capable of writing a code that just targets IE6 don’t deserve traffic.
Matt
Friday, October 21, 2011 at 4:45 PMI wish other browsers had ad-block. Oh wait…