Josh

20Feb/106

The Browser Choice Screen for Europe

The Browser Choice Screen for Europe: What to Expect, When to Expect It - Microsoft On The Issues.

I wondered how they would end up doing this.  So seems like we will all get the option if we are using IE as default at the moment.  Would be interesting to see Chrome / Firefox etc. stats for when the update is released.

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  • Especially considering the huge ad push Google have going for Chrome at the moment.
  • I thought those were quite poor in the end. I liked the giant ones that just said 'Chrome' with the logo. But the ones with "3 tabs for....... 7 tabs for....." etc that were on the walls of the tube stations were actually quite shit.

    They really cocked up, and they could possibly have been saved if they had been funny. It was Christmas ish time, so why on earth did they not go "10 tabs for.... 9 blog posts for..., 8......2 bookmarked albums 1 Google browser" possibly with music.
  • The did look like they were written by ad men, not people with an actual understanding of what the product is, and what its virtues are.

    I especially liked the one that talked about creating a playlist on Spotify, as if that was even relevant.
  • I used to use Firefox because it was faster and better than IE, and of course tabs. Now I use Chrome because Firefox has become bloated and slow and IE like in some ways.

    A bowser is a window to the internet, it should not be cluttered and surrounded by crap. No toolbars, as few menus as possible, it should be just a thin walled box with the internet inside.


    And I like having tabs at the top, not as another tool-bar type thing. And the ability to drag them into different windows, with the only bug being that you can't directly combine two tabbed filled chrome winds in one step, you have to do it one tab at a time.
  • Indeed, Chrome is the only browser I've seen that actually gives a shit about not wasting vertical space by default.

    IE and Firefox are just abortions in that regard. I like how Chrome even thinks about the little status bar at the bottom: it only appears in Chrome when it has something to say, and if you have to mouse over where it was supposed to be, it appears somewhere else.

    Somebody actually sat and put some thought into that, and if I ever meet them I'll buy them a pint.
  • Never noticed that before.

    MS did get the name right tough. Hit 'Start' and type "internet" what is the first result you get?

    To someone just starting out on W7 never really using a computer before (for example my mum) that would be a completely sensible thing to do. "I want the internet, so I go to Internet Explorer. Chrome? Firefox? what are they for?"
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