BrowseHappy.com is a website I’ve already seen before but haven’t took the time to ridicule yet.
Browse Happy is a site pushing users to stop using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer because it is supposedly unsafe. I quote “Internet Explorer can make your computer unsafe. Why not switch to a browser that’s more secure?”.
If you clicked on the previous link, you can see that the only facts they give are actually outdated quotes (XP SP2 anyone?), blames on IE6 (The US government warning about IE dates back to 2004, two years before IE7 launched) which are yes, valid, don’t use IE6, upgrade, and opinions, I quote “Ms. Sandlin is so devoted to Firefox that she has taped a note to her monitor warning guests not to click on the desktop shortcut to Internet Explorer. Do not touch the blue ‘E!’
the note says.”
Now, it’s even funnier when it comes to the browsers it recommends. Apparently the people who made this website haven’t been there in years. Their Firefox link still points to Mozilla.org, since then, Mozilla downloads are on the .com site (their link redirects you) and they forgot to include Google Chrome, now out since more than three months! But hey, the worse is the Mozilla link. Click on it and you’ll land on a page that’ll explain you how this browser is basically discontinued. They (Mozilla themselves) even recommend you don’t use it for daily usages.
Now, the realiy is Internet Explorer 7 is not bad at all and Internet Explorer 8 kicks ass (at least, will, still in beta (beta 2) as I write this). Before trusting anything you read on the net, look at the date and then face the facts. Please, stop this IE hate, and if you’re an IE user, stay with it and make sure you have the latest updates.
On today’s computers, you should worry more about having an adequate antivirus solution that does more than simply scanning viruses (anti-spyware, rootkit detection, IM encryption).
And for the skeptics, I’m on a Mac on Firefox.
