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Mozilla Foundation Seeking Switch Success Stories

Posted by timothy on from the it-rawks-it-stomps-cities-it-purees dept.

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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  1. Re:We're all success stories by Maestro4k · · Score: 0, Troll
    • Success stories? Hey, just grab anyone who switched to Mozilla and you'll have a success story: No more pop-ups, tabbed browsing, hardly anyone targeting your browser for attack. Ah, the sweet smell of success!
    I've tried to switch multiple times and I still cannot stand Mozilla's UI at all. I don't use plain-vanilla IE either (I use the browser wrapper Maxthon (used to be called MyIE2)) but what I do use makes Mozilla's UI look pathetic.

    Frankly the Mozilla project needs to take a serious look at the UI and improve it. If a member of the /. crowd (who remembers using Netscape when it was called Mozilla the first time before IE came around) can't stand the UI, how can we expect your average joe to? How can we honestly expect business, libraries or anyone else to switch?

    Make Mozailla's UI at least as good as IE and the browser wrappers out there for it (I really recommend Maxthon) and THEN you'll have tons of success stories. Until then Mozilla's going to be the province of the highly technical users who don't mind the UI.

    And no this isn't meant to be a troll or flamebait. Too many people are happy to expouse "switch to Mozilla it's great and more secure" without considering that a lot of people think Mozilla's a step down. We really need folks to work on the UI and improve it. I'd like to see it improved myself so I can finally stand to switch.

  2. Re:Tabbed Browsing for Libraries? by timothy · · Score: 1, Troll

    I like / want tabbed browsing for libraries because when searching for books, usually an initial phase of the search will get me to a list of books that might match, sometimes a long list.

    With tabs, I can clickaclickaclicka load them up and then look at each entry separately. (So, when searching from home on my own computer, it's great :))

    At the machines at the library itself, though, they use a different interface (wish they wouldn't), and kiosk / IE machines -- never mind tabs, you can't even start new browser instances, so you have to pursue each possibility on the list one at a time, click, then read, then click Back to try the next one.

    That's why :)

    standards compliance and reasonable security are great, but I might even prefer IE to Mozilla if the which-has-tabs situation were reversed. Well, and if IE ran on Linux without bothersome add-on software.

    timothy

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  3. Re:Library by timothy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Innerestin'. I'm not pro-taxes, but I like tax money spent on libraries more than on some things ;)

    Next time I'm in Austin, I'd like to check it out.

    timothy

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  4. Re:We switched! by WankersRevenge · · Score: 0, Troll

    Did your penis extension business fare any better? Or how about your bro's in Nigeria? How has the switch been for them? (from a mass mail perspective)

  5. Your sig by Pentagram · · Score: 1, Troll

    there != their

    Are you going to write a sequel now about loose != lose?

  6. maybe in September ... by timothy · · Score: 0, Troll

    I hope to spend a few days (or at least one) in Austin in September. If schedule allows, I hope to drop by.

    Tim

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