Hi,
today in the morning, while reading the daily news on heise.de I came across an article about a new website created by Microsoft: Your Browser Matters
In this site they score your browser when you surf on it. And of course, IE9 gets the highest score. Maximum score is 4, Firefox with adblockplus makes 2. With Konqueror they cannot give a score at all.
So the funny thing is, what I read from the comments on this news: when you switch the browseridentification on Firefox for example, to IE9, you also get full score = 4 
Another funny thing is: this website requires flash to be loaded. As we all know, Flash is a horrible security hole… but… its all about security, man!
So to me this is another crazy trial of Microsoft to gain some marketshare in browsers and with that, trying to sell Windows 7. My assumption, based on this is, that there are still a lot of people with Windows XP and they do not buy Windows 7… so maybe Microsoft is not satisfied with the sales numbers?
anyway, it is quite funny and I wanted to share this
cheers
Steffen
I saw that earlier today. It was pretty obvious that it was a marketing site, and that what it was marketing was IE.
I should boot up Windows and see what IE does with that site. According to the site, IE gives wonderful protection against fraudulent sites. Since that site is obviously fraudulent, IE should block it? But I somehow doubt that it does.
On 10/12/2011 8:16 PM, steffen13 wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> today in the morning, while reading the daily news on heise.de I came
> across an article about a new website created by Microsoft: ‘Your
> Browser Matters’ (http://www.yourbrowsermatters.org)
>
> In this site they score your browser when you surf on it. And of
> course, IE9 gets the highest score. Maximum score is 4, Firefox with
> adblockplus makes 2. With Konqueror they cannot give a score at all.
>
> So the funny thing is, what I read from the comments on this news: when
> you switch the browseridentification on Firefox for example, to IE9, you
> also get full score = 4
>
> Another funny thing is: this website requires flash to be loaded. As we
> all know, Flash is a horrible security hole… but… its all about
> security, man!
>
> So to me this is another crazy trial of Microsoft to gain some
> marketshare in browsers and with that, trying to sell Windows 7. My
> assumption, based on this is, that there are still a lot of people with
> Windows XP and they do not buy Windows 7… so maybe Microsoft is not
> satisfied with the sales numbers?
>
> anyway, it is quite funny and I wanted to share this
>
> cheers
> Steffen
>
>
I haven’t read that article so i can not really comment on this. But if
you are going to a manufactures website, it will be always doubtful that
there are real results.
Firefox does have its problems. IE & Chrome move on.
There is however one thing i am not sure and thats the sandbox thing. I
know Chrome does it, but not sure if Firefox does it or not.
Anyway, IE9 is surely a safer browser then IE6 and for people that hang
on to XP, thats because they are betting on Windows 8. And then of
course the people that don’t want to spend money.
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I thought everybody knew to change the browser id if this or that website won’t work, or you get poor speed out of surfing some sites. It goes hand in hand with sites that try to sell you anti-virus, anti-spam based on the browser you have ie6 gets a different response than opera, ie7, ie8, firefox.
On 2011-10-17 19:46, techwiz03 wrote:
> I thought everybody knew to change the browser id if this or that
It is very easy with konqueror, but not so with Firefox.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
That is a pretty ugly site!
Ren & Stimpy Horse Guy No sir, I didn’t like it!