Subversive, guerrilla marketing at its finest.
Switch your users to Firefox and make money
You already want people to switch to Firefox. Now’s the time to get serious about it. Google is paying $1 for each new Firefox user you refer.
This is pretty amazing. Now you can advance your ideals, save people from popups and spyware hell, and make some serious money. Millions of people have heard about Firefox and are ready to switch–all they need is a friendly push.
That’s where these scripts come in. They’re specially formulated to give just the right push, maximizing souls-saved and dollars-for-you.
Level 3: Dead serious Rating: $$$$$$
You’ve never considered blocking IE users from viewing your site, even though you hate IE with a passion that burns hotter than Hades. Now you have a practical excuse to do what you’ve always dreamed of. IE users will see a friendly message stating that they need to download and install Firefox to view your site.
I also like this other, related site. Funny stuff!
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On the list of Destroyer features, my favorite would have to be “Infuriates Microsoft.” If I were a spinmeister (which of course I’m not), I might go in the other direction and say, “Helps prove to the U.S. Justice Department that competition is still alive!” Naturally, Microsoft would find that an appealing feature.
I’m a longtime Firefox user whose primary use for IE is downloading Windows updates.
“since firefox is not more secure than IE”
God Paul, where in the frick do you come up with this BS?! Even your ass couldn’t contain a piece of BS that big!
Here’s a good real world example, after years of cleaning viruses and spyware off of my father-in-law’s computer every month I finally got wise and switched him over to Firefox. It’s been about six months and he has not got one virus or spyware infestation on his computer.
You’ll probably say that the lack of marketshare makes it a smaller target. Well guess what, a smaller target IS more secure than a larger one. Duh! Would you rather be a huge target on a shooting range or a small one?!
I don’t care why it’s more secure, all I care about is that it is more secure.
Paul doesn’t only get paid by the Republicans it seems.
“Paul doesn’t only get paid by the Republicans it seems.”
The worst part is that Paul and I agree on something, immigration. It’s driving me crazy. Paul’s support of any issue should be irrefutable proof that the other side is right.
Although Firefox is a better all around browser (I use it), Explorer tends to render my web pages with a bit more accuracy than Firefox. I test on Explorer, Firefox and Opera; since AOL suborned Netscape I won’t even install it on my machines.
Firefox is more secure than IE yes, Paul was probably refering to that even though it doesn’t have the huge gaping security holes IE does – it does have it’s own problems.
However those are usually minor (and fixed quickly) or major but really hard to exploit. Either way they are fixed VERY quickly, something that can’t be said about IE.
Also, as to the “more powerful” IE based browser Paul linked to – what he means is more features. Something that Firefox takes care of with extensions. They wisely moved bloat like that out of the core code.
…of course Opera is a great browser too
John – thats probably because the sites were designed in and for IE. Not because IE has a better engine. So all IE’s bugs and quirks in rendering were compensated for in it, but not other browsers.
Basically… bad web design.
“i’m a unix system administrator. i’ve worked professionally in that capacity since 1994. before that, i was a unix user, going back to 1986. i’m an expert Solaris administrator. I’m an experience linux and freebsd administrator. i manage a colo cage filled from asses to teakettles with unix servers and not a single ‘winblows’ server to be found therein.”
Gee, all that experience and you’re still wrong! Would be sad if it wasn’t so gosh-darn funny!
The one little detail that brought my browsing back to IE from Firefox is the F11-Full Screen option. In Firefox the title bar cannot be hidden. In IE the title bar can be hidden, and along with the task bar being hidden I am happy to view a page, and only a page; to be immersed in it like i am part of it without obstructions or protrusions from borders. The framing of my LCD is all I want.
“re 11, it’s like arguing with a parrot. an ex parrot.”
Oh come on Paul, I only flame out of love!
P.S. And my parrot is very much alive… know whatahmean, know whatahmean, nudge nudge, know whatahmean, say no more?
“You’ve never considered blocking IE users from viewing your site, even though you hate IE with a passion that burns hotter than Hades.”
Ohhh! Sounds like 1998 all over again. Except, instead of Netscape it’s Firefox.
Maybe I’m being idealistic, by write to the standards and let the browser writers handle the rest. Oh, and complain the them LOUDLY when they don’t.
I’ll let the security arguement slide… in regards to post 6, John, it’s because your sites are not supporting standards in many areas.
While non developers and designers will argue it to the end, we’ve come a long way in design, and structured code to simplify and improve design techniques — IE has fallen behind in it’s development significantly — IE 7 has caught up in it’s standards support, but will still be behind Firefox, Opera 9, and Safari in terms of features for design and development.
http://www.htmldog.com has some excellent tutorials on teaching standard coding for html and css that can improve your techniques — steer clear of frontpage and I would take learning dreamweaver to be as troublesome as learning to handcode — this is more the concern for the developers, security is the market pitch for the rest of the windows world.
Wait, I will get into the security arguement — if you’ve ever coded ActiveX, and understand how much disaster you can create, you’ll already see that alternative browsers are safer. If you’re going to argue that, it better be good with examples.
Just from a web designer’s perspective, IE is frustrating as it renders standards code a mess on the screen occasionally. They (MS) have patched it well for security purposes, but they have never fixed it’s inherenet inablity to display certain CSS styles properly.
david,
F11 works for me in Firefox. It’s IE I can’t get to do it. Perhaps there’s a setting in each somewhere?
Funny thing is that my work had me delete firefox because it is not an approved program. So I’m back to IE by day and Firefox by night.
Paul, the fact that Firefox is not hooked directly to the operating system, by definition, means that it *is* more secure. And not even you with your all-knowingness can know what exploits are still to come in IE…6 *or* 7. By keeping it hooked in at the system level, MS has guaranteed that IE is a bigger security risk. No amount of arguing on your part can change that fact.
Malren, don’t bother arguing with Paul on which browser is more secure. He’s a “unix system administrator,” which somehow makes him more qualified to know about these things than the rest of the world.
Oh for the days when Paul was “done with DU”.
More hot air. They’re all browsers. Who cares? As long as Dvorak Uncensored and porn renders correctly, the rest is immaterial.
OK, OK OK…
1. IE has been made to use CUSTOMIZED funtions, that ONLY IE will use/show.. It WASNT designed with the ORIGINAL standards of Java, Flash, or anything ELSE…It looks great on sites DESIGNED with IE in mind AND useing IE based programs from MS..
It was ALSO designed to let THINGS IN, so that MS could market…the ABILITY to MARKET/SPAM/POPUP to IE…
2. FIREFOX at LEAST gives you the options you WANT, and nothing MORE.. YOU ADD the bells and whistles you WISH. But it was ALSO designed around the SPECS, of JAVA, Flash, and the STANDARDS that are on the internet, and created BY, the owners OF THOSE formats…