Kill Bill's browser!

I'm not a great fan of Internet Explorer.

As are most things Microsoft, it is unelegant, needlessly complex, full of bugs and security-holes, and you get it rammed down your throat without even asking for it. And, not to forget, it's ugly too!

The vast majority of people believe that IE is the only choice they have if they want to roam the internet. Sure, they may have heard their geek cousin mentioning exotic software such as Mozilla, Opera, Safari, Firefox ... but that's just geeky stuff, and most people dare not venture into the dangerously dark and deceptive jungle of freeware or open source software. Who knows what weird catastrophes may happen if they stray from the trodden Microsoft path?

I use Firefox. It's a better browser. End of story. It is simple, it is sophisticated and it works. And it looks better than Internet Explorer. Nothing to it. Click, download, install, run.

It comes with a Google search field as standard - and I guess this is why Google supports a new and aggressive attack on Bill's browser from Hell.

The concept is simple: if you get people to use Firefox instead of IE, you'll get 1 dollar for each person you convince. All you have to do is download and install Explorer Destroyer, and your visitors will get an offer to download Firefox when they visit your site. IF they use IE and if they click and download, you get paid. By Google! Mwahahaha! Google rocks!

I don't have enough visitors here to make a buck and a half that way, but I've installed the "Explorer Destroyer" button in my side bar. Simply because it will make me very, very happy if you people would STOP LOOKING AT THIS BLOG IN BILL's CRAPPY BROWSER!!!

And because, as they state it so beautifully on "Kill Bill's browser": "It will make Bill Gates soooooooooo mad

Seriously-- super, super mad. And even more than Bill, let's think about Steve "I'm going to fucking kill Google" Ballmer for a second (actual quote). If there's anyone that's going to absolutely blow a gasket when they see this website, it will be him.

(video proof of Steve Ballmer being a crazy, sweaty man.)"

PS. If the video link is dead, Bill (or Steve - or both) is probably on to this.

Comments

[Klaus]

Hehehe - making Bill mad is just soo much fun. I hope Internet Explorer will suffer and suffer bad on account of the campaign!

Personally, I use both Firefox and Safari as I'm on a mac. I love Firefox but Safari on the new intel macs (appropriately renamed Mactels by the mac-community) is faster - much faster!

Internet Explorer is a nightmare of obese, patched code, unwanted features and lack of compliance to standards.

So let's all go kill bills browser - It'll be fun, I promise ;-)

[Jesper Dalberg]

Personally I find it to be fairly uninteresting which browser people uses, especially if the motivation behind it is to make some billionaire mad.

In Safari, links are draggable objects, which makes sense for an intelligent OS like OSX with applications that might actually be able to react on getting links dropped in the face. Does it mean that I think we should all convert to OSX, does it make you want to? Didn't think so.

Whatever works for you is the correct choice. Instead of worrying about which browser to use, start deciding what infomation you want it to show you.

[-w.]

Well I'm not one of those people who believe that IE is the only choice they have. But I sure am someone who is annoyed by all that tracking software/advertising annoyances that usually get rammed down your throat when you opt for alternative software of all kinds, not just browsers.

I'm not a fan of Microsoft. I once even believed in the Open Source concept enough to own some Red Hat shares.

But the software does its job and the marketing is unobtrusive (if you know how to check/uncheck boxes that is).

Killing also does not seem to be a concept to solve problems of any kind, either.
;-)

[Mimi]

I'm a convert to Firefox as well. And I told someone in my office about it and she switched and loves it!!

But there are legions of people out there who are to afraid to try anything different. They've been marketed to believe that anything different from the status quo will eat their PC.