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- cfazzini, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3God you people are dumb. There IS good reasons to do this. If you want Firefox to take over the browser world, then the n00b masses need to use it to.
So just make it so they don't realise they aren't using it. Boom, everyone uses Firefox. - allthewhile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2so i could trick the morons at work into giving up the idiocy of i.e.
- sharedferret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2To protect a stubborn person using IE from all the problems that IE has (hole-wise, not layout-wise).
- H_o_p_s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Firefox is on the left, Explorer on the right.
- JonRick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you read it, it explains why. I wouldn't do it, but I guess for those people who like the look and feel of IE.
- spooky213, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1great use of time, trying to get good software to look like M$ crap interface design.
- NearHearingED, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just had to jump on my windows box and try this.
Guess which one firefox is, the left or the right?
http://img493.imageshack.us/img493/9359/compareie9tv.png - NearHearingED, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yup, Firefox is on the left.
If you wanted to make it look exactly like IE you would have to make "buttons" of those words that you would place next to the icons, like I did with the word "Adress".
Also, I can't get it to say "internet" with that crappy icon in the corner, or have the added separators there.
You would also have to edit the extention that changes the program name in order to get the needed space.
This is a big waste of time I'm putting Noia back on. - sufferingant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1H o p s is right, the no Back or Forward gives it away
- pseudojd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1sweet. digg for converting users without knowing. hahahaha
- bg_27, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1also on the firefox one on the left doesnt have a space between "InternetExplorer" on the title bar.
- marvngardn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I dig it because at work, I am not allowed to use any "unsupported" software. I have portable firefox on my flash drive with the XP theme. I surf with the browser I love, and my tard bosses are none the wiser. Joy!
- Lorian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I actually managed to convert my family fairly easily, they are not stubborn and they know that I know what I am talking about so I just told them that Firefox was better and after a few times of telling them to use Firefox when I saw them on IE they had been converted.
- 404notfound, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This trick is pretty old. See the Ars Technica forum thread from almost a year ago: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=522004867631
- Badaudio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hey is that foxie thing good?because most of the pages i view usually cant be viewed in ff so i was wondering if i should install FOXIE.
- antiwmac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0power of opensource...
- accunta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Make Firefox look like ie7: http://www.designlegion.com/rave/make-firefox-look-like-ie7/
- godmode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sebastiaan: maybe its my settings, but all the code that generates hotmail signatures in the Rich Text Editor just shows up as code in the email.
- ihate2regist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0still says mozilla firefox
- salmonmoose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There aren't words....
- rajt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Geez! Understand that there are many people who are resistant to moving to Firefox because it looks different. They don't care about tabbed browsing, better security or whatever. It just looks different to IE and that is enough reason not to change. Obviously more fool them. This might be a way of getting people to change. It should be encouraged.
- dragoonz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.getfoxie.com/
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"God you people are dumb. There IS good reasons to do this."
There IS good reasons to use verbs in the plural. - porplem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is pretty cool for people who can't stand change.
- fonebone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...
- dragoonz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This was cut off my last comment:
"lol that's like making a mac look like windows."
This is stupid. One may like the back-end of windows, but prefer a mac-style look. It's a preference.
(yeah, I know I'm going the other way, whatever)
Additionally, this is also meant to help broaden firefox's userbase. It takes ALOT for a user to swap browsers, and if you can get make it look almost the same, it makes the switch so much easier. - callumj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is an excellent idea, most people who use IE beleive there is nothing wrong with IE. They beleive it is safe and that there is nothing broken with it (its made by Microsoft, right?).
So there is that beleif that when you tell them about Firefox they think that they don't need it so they are already un-interested. Then when they see the GUI of Firefox; they would get even more confused with the Search system, the tabs, the missing IE links. This confusion throws them right off the Firefox product. If they think it is stil IE, then tell them later they are using Firefox then you've convinced a user.
Excellent idea and good digg. - Fallout75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We all know that 1 person that has to click on IE instead of Firefox no matter how much you tell them that Firefox is better.
Now just make a desktop shortcut to Firefox and use the IE logo for the Icon and your computer will be safe and hope that person will never know the difference. - vertigoblue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0its the one on the right
- Fallout75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0icebreaka: That's a good one.
IE 7.0 is here! (aka Firefox 1.07 with IE theme installed) - rohizzle121, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0LOL^^^^^
- godmode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cool article, +digg
now if only hotmail wouldnt reject FF like a red-headed stepchild. - peace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Why in the hell would anyone want to do that?"
bcoz I got a lot of stupid people complaining that there is "no browser(read IE)" installed on the computers in my lab. - antiTRACE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Only idiots ask "why?" without really wanting to know the answer (e.g. read TFA).
- Cheyne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is great. I will be doing this to my family's computers today. They still use IE out of habit.
- .Steven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Left is Firefox and Right is IE.
- m0laria, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I think I am the only one on the planet that prefers IE to Firefox."
Actually you are in the majority. - shooby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! I made my mom/dad switch to FireFox, but they still think it's IE...hehe
- techbunny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think I am the only one on the planet that prefers IE to Firefox.
- n3tfury, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0although i would never dream of doing that, props to the guy who went through the trouble.
- mephitix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0c0dek -- here's the difference. Schwinn isn't a household name, so there's no reason for Porsche to appear like Schwinn. Also, once a product takes on the appearance of another product (i.e. Firefox appearing like IE), it doesn't mean that it always has to look like IE. As consumers use more and more of the IE-themed Firefox they might discover new features, and in any case, the security gained by using Firefox will benefit not just them, but the entire web populace.
- spadgos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0digg needs an "anti-digg" button.
- Hoohoonick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's never going to look exactly like IE anyway, not without millions of popups, errors, toolbars you've never asked for, and so on..
- Deviant_Tech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great. Make firefox look even uglier.
- mephitix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Uh, not because of the way it looks, but there are still plenty of sites out there that use ActiveX or that just do not work with FF because of IE centered coding." - Sebaastian
Plenty of sites? The statistics prove you wrong. This is data pulled from w3 consortium. Sure, it's old, but look at the comment on ActiveX after 18 months. Now imagine what happened to that statistic after the advent of Firefox, the nasty security issues with ActiveX, the push for web standards, etc. etc.
"# Had a bot to crawl the Media Metrix Top 500 list to catalog the technologies that each site employs.
# Found:
* 79.9% of the sites use Tables
* 62.0% use JavaScript
* 38.2% use Imagemaps
* 20.6% use Style sheets
* 2.1% use ActiveX
* 1.1% use Java
# Over the past 18 months, the statistics have changed. JavaScript increased steadily. Style sheet usage has doubled. Java and ActiveX remain low."
http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2001/01/22-stats.html - Cyborg771, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Who in their right mind would want something as sleek and cool as firefox to look like IE?
- toasterwaffle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i tried to do this myself for school. you're not allowed to install anything on the school computers and they don't have firefox, so I run it off my iPod and nobody notices its not IE... but then again mine isn't as good as this one. congrats
- mephitix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wow, next to "THIS IS SO OLD OMFG", "WHY??" is probably the next idiotic comment. Here's a simple response for you: RTFA. There's clearly a section AT THE VERY TOP marked "Why? In the name of all that is good and righteous... WHY??".
I know three people that are extremely resilient to switching from Internet Explorer to Firefox; they feel it won't run the applications or load the webpages they want simply because of the way it looks. Firefox has to compete with such a standard household name like Internet Explorer, and while many will accept Firefox as-is, there are those consumers who are scared of change. I believe it would benefit Firefox to have a little consumer discrimination (in the sense of altering its style to draw in those consumers). That's what the developers had in mind in any case, with the ability to have themes support, plugins, extensions, etc.
This is definitely a worthy attempt, despite the small issues. - c0dek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Making FF look like IE in order to foist it upon stubborn users is no rationale, it's purely irrational. Everything else in our world is being dunbed down so as not to inconvenience those who can't be bothered to learn new things, and that is ridiculous. The more we cater to the lowest common denominator, the more we regress to that level. If they insist on using the big blue E, then they deserve the viruses and assorted crapware they get.
What's next? Make Porsche look like Schwinn? - Incognito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There should be a way to negative digg.
NO DIGG! -
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