Mozilla Foundation Seeking Switch Success Stories

maggeth writes "mozillaZine has a story about how the Mozilla Foundation is looking to know if any organizations have switched to Mozilla products. Is your organization among them?" Can anyone point out an example of a library system switching? Lots of public libraries use PCs set up as kiosks running a web interface to their catalogs, and they all seem to use IE -- so, no tabbed browsing.

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Courtesy of Ellen Feiss

[SeanTobin]

I'm writing to share a tragic little story.

My Dad has a webbrowser that my sister and I used to use for our homework assignments. One night, I was browsing a website on it, when all of a sudden it went berserk, the screen started flashing, and some really weird pictures just appeared. Lots of them. And I was at a good website! I had to reboot and find it again really quickly. Needless to say, my rushed webbrowsing wasn't nearly as good, and I blame IE for the trouble I got into when my Dad checked the cache.

I'm happy to report that my sister and I now share Mozilla Firefox. It's a lot nicer to work on than my dad's webbrowser was, it hasn't let me down once, and my cache has been really clean.

Thanks, Mozilla.

Re:Courtesy of Ellen Feiss

[xmas2003]

OK - how many /.'ers use mozilla products because this way their significant other (who uses IE) won't see the history bar or the cache showing the sites they were looking at.

I.e. I see a variety of comments about p0rn so I gotta believe this might be a factor for some of you! ;-)

Re:Courtesy of Ellen Feiss

[fuzzix]

Yeah, but what about the people who drive Ferraris?

Those poor bastards are at crotch height... They look out the window while they're cruising through town and see crotches.

As many of you well know, most of the crotches out there are distinctly unattractive. Give me my bicycle any day - let Ferrari guy see my ass fly by while he's stuck in traffic ;)

This is just toooo easy!

[Anonymous Coward]

Lots of public libraries use PCs set up as kiosks running a web interface to their catalogs, and they all seem to use IE -- so, no tabbed browsing.

and they would be real useful if anyone could actually see what they are browsing past all the pop-ups and ads!

Success Story!

[efuseekay]

I used I.E. for a long time, and it was a terrible terrible time.

Everytime I click on a porn-site, a zillion pop-ups appeared, covering the important pics of naked hot chicks. If nothing else, the pop-ups did a wonderful job lowering my saluting penis. It was horrible.

But then, my girlfriend recommended that I use mozilla! Boy, it was a dream come true. No pop-ups. And the amazing thing called "TABBED BROWSING". Now, I don't have to open multiple windows of I.E., I can have multiple PICS of naked hot chicks in the same browser! I tell ya, nothing turn on my libido then being able to stare at the naked hot chicks in various positions, all at once! !

So, thank you Mozilla! I love you!

Re:Success Story!

[angrist]

Amen brother

http://www.squarefree.com/pornzilla/why-firefox.ht ml

Re:apple

[Finuvir]

There's no chance of that.

Re:Sorry but IE is better

[Ari_Haviv]

and you graciously supply the russian mafia with FREE credit card accounts.

Re:Problem with Mozilla ...

[killjoe]

Give the man a break, he is probably a MCSE. What the hell does he know about login scripting.

Re:apple

[nametaken]

I really like how this page isn't compatible with firefox. (the text overlaps pictures)

It is compatible, you just have to refresh. It's one of those weird Gecko bugs that's gone after a refresh. Meh.

What a brilliant place to showcase such a bug! [Obligatory] "DOH!"