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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seven: two are worth a look for specific reasons, the other five are only likely to give an internet novice a horribly outdated idea of what web browsing is like."
I like my web browsing outdated, thank you very much.
Now get off my lawn.
Based on the quality of the linked article, he's overqualified for a job at PCPro.
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This is a very clever strategy to purposely have a large number of mostly crap alternatives, just to bury Chrome and Firefox.
The randomised ordering of a large number of crap options just helps to ensure that the odds of anyone randomly picking a non-IE browser would more often end up with something worse than IE.
Microsoft are very clever to turn even this browser selector into something that is more not less likely to establish the incorrect opinion that IE is best overall and then have users who tried something else switch back to IR.
>>>do your own research
No. The person making the claim ALSO has the responsibility to back it up with citations. If no citations are provided, then the claim is null and void as if it never existed. (And I was going to say "thanks for the helpful link" but now you can just forget it.)
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
My comment actually was a joke. Do I need to explain the joke, or something?
Firefox didn’t invent the features. It just did them better than Opera did. Just like Google didn’t invent search or maps, but it did them so much better than anyone else that it quickly became the leader. Firefox is so far ahead of Opera now that it’s irrelevant who came up with the idea first.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.