The Seven Hidden Browsers In the Windows Ballot

Barence writes "Two weeks ago Microsoft started rolling out a Windows update within the European Union, giving every Internet Explorer user the option to switch browsers. As well as the five big names, anyone who scrolls the ballot window to the right will find seven further browsers, none of which is exactly a household name. There's no quality control being offered, either — they're simply the '12 most widely-used web browsers that run on Windows 7,' based on usage share in the European Economic Area. But what are these unknown browsers actually like? To find out, seven PC Pro staff installed a browser each, used it exclusively for a day, and ran a variety of tests. The browser-by-browser verdict on the hidden seven: two are worth a look for specific reasons, the other five are only likely to give an internet novice a horribly outdated idea of what web browsing is like."

Comments

Lynx?

[sunderland56]

Hey! Where's Lynx?

Re:Lynx?

[Toze]

Skin! In my day we dreamed about having skin! We walked around everywhere holding our insides in with our hands. Didn't have blood, either- we hand to pump oxygen into our cells by hand, and that was no easy task, let me tell you. Gripping an oxygen atom without skin on! And web pages, hah! We had to wait for our elders to die and arrange their corpses in pictograms! Those were the days. "Corpse-lying-on-its-side-with-one-arm-outstretched, corpse-half-buried-upside-down, corpse-with-fingers-up-nose. I see the Joneses have been accessing our network again."

Re:And thus the folly is proven

[shutdown -p now]

You’re kidding, right?

Of course he is. Everyone knows that Opera was the first web browser to have zealots - Firefox totally ripped that off.