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Explorer Destroyer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thats-pretty-funny dept.

slayer99 writes "I came across Explorer Destroyer yesterday, which is a project that aims to increase the market share of Firefox in a slightly more proactive way than is usual. They provide some code which you add to your front page which presents a banner to IE users urging them to switch to using Firefox. As a bonus, you can potentially make some money via Google's Firefox referral program."

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  1. Annoyance as a marketing technique? by goofyheadedpunk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is it just me or does annoying the people you're trying to attract sound like a poor idea? I know when I am annoyed by something I'm more likely to resist. For example, whenever I meet militant PETA people I really want to go kill baby bunnies, skin them, and wear their bloody firs as a coat... and I'm vegetarian!

    I think if I were an IE user I'd refuse to use Firefox on these grounds. Impress me on technical or philosophical merits, not by being a bully.

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  2. Re:Please, please don't! by bunratty · · Score: 5, Insightful
    As long as the IE has a dominant role in the browser world, trojan writers will concentrate on it.
    By your reasoning, hackers would concentrate on Apache instead of IIS because it runs more servers. Wrong, they still attack IIS more. Likewise, hackers will focus on IE because it has more known unpatched vulnerabilities than other browsers.
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  3. Re:Unbelievable. by Pneuma+ROCKS · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Isn't this the same kind of actions that open source advocates condemn, when Microsoft and friends use it ?

    Absolutely.

    I would like to point out that this "project" has been pushed (possibly by its creator) on SpreadFirefox.com for quite some time, but it has met with the appropriate response: NO. Link to the post. I'm an active SFX member, and I can tell you that most members of the community realize how annoying and stupid this idea is. Browser-detection scripts and browser-specific behavior should be buried and forgotten. Firefox is about standards, and the community acknowledges that.

    I know the creator of those scripts is trying to help, but his/her aim is terrible.

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  4. Re:That's retarded by Conspiracy_Of_Doves · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But isn't it poetic justice that we use IE's dirty little hacks to bring it down? Remember that evil always contains the seeds of its own destruction.

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    Technoli