Windows Browser Ballot: the Winners and the Losers

Barence writes "It's a year since the Windows browser ballot came into being in Europe — but has it made any difference? PC Pro has surveyed the minor browser makers — who theoretically had the most to gain from the ballot — to find out what impact it's had on their business. The answers are very mixed. One of the 12, FlashPeak SlimBrowser, claims it's resulted in fewer than 200 downloads per day. Others claim it's transformed their business. One thing is for certain: the big boys still dominate."

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Re:Eurotrash?

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck off and get back to your plastic processed cheese and Budweiser horse piss.

Chrome growth is frightening.

[crhylove]

I know there's lots of google fan boys on Slashdot, but I find it frightening that Chrome use has been growing so much. Google already has a very powerful market presence on the web, and I don't think putting them in charge of your browser is a good idea. They are a corporation for profit, and hence inherently evil, like any machine that cares about nothing but profit would inherently be.

The choice to use Firefox is obvious because it's the best browser. But people should stick with Firefox anyway because it's OPEN SOURCE, and no corporation could abuse the power of it's market share for that fact alone. Do the right thing. Migrate your clients and friends and family to open source, and start with Firefox first, because it IS THE BEST, and easiest to use browser, and runs on all 4 major operating systems. Then after that go for Libre Office (perfect example of the nature of Open Source killing evil corporation right there, "Good BYE Open Office!!"), and then eventually get your people onto Linux Mint. It's the best OS already, and 9 times out of 10 people will come to love it's stability, speed, ease of use, and inherently preferable nature due to it's FOSS character.

The fact that so many people are still on Mac and Windows really speaks volumes to the pathetic and immoral nature of the human mind, and the lazy weakness that pervades society and allows so many problems and corporate slavery to continue and flourish unhindered.

Do the right thing. Upgrade to FOSS, and start with Firefox. Not SOLELY because it's FOSS, but because it's also the best. Oh, and while you're at it, install Adblock and send an extra FUCK YOU to the corporations that are destroying all the ecosystems on the planet, our basic human rights, health, and happiness, and the democracies that so many of our ancestors labored and died to create.