Guess the web browser
August 15th, 2011
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Firefox Halloween Costume
October 28th, 2010
Microsoft Bashes Browser Competition
June 18th, 2009
How appropriate that my last post was about browsers.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has always been one of the most popular browsers, not because people love it, but because it comes installed with Windows and the majority of web users have no idea how to get a new browser (or even that there are options) or they are too lazy to bother.
Internet Explorer, which has a reputation for being insecure, unintuitative, and buggy, has made a claim against the other popular browsers that it is better in every department.
Windows Internet Explorer 8: Get the facts
This comparison chart is an absolute joke. Right off the bat, even if Internet Explorer 8 is all the things they claim to be (secure, private, adaptable, etc), the other two browsers compared, Firefox and Chrome, are at the very least ahead of IE8 in pretty much all of those departments.
IE complies with Web Standards? What a joke. I’ll believe this when I see it.
What is the Difference Betweeen a Browser and a Search Engine?
June 18th, 2009
Jason showed this to me today at work and I’m flabbergasted. That’s right. I said flabbergasted.
According to this guy’s informal study less than 8% of people in Time Square know what a browser is. In fact, most of them just assume it is a search engine.
92% of people have no idea what a browser is when they use one everyday!
I don’t assume everyone knows what a browser is, but given pretty much everyone uses one everyday I figured the statistics would be more reasonable.
Given this statistic I am going to assume that most people reading this post have no idea what a browser is so I will give you the benefit of the doubt and tell you.
A browser is a computer program that is used for viewing web pages on the internet. Some examples of popular browsers include Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.
A search engine is a web site that you view in a browser that indexes other websites like Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
Flabbergasted.