For Thanksgiving, give your parents a treat: upgrade their browser
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Re: For Thanksgiving, give your parents a treat: upgrade their browser
#2This should be a non-issue but on Windows XP [1] silent application upgrades often fail because they require admin privileges.
[1] Win XP still has a third of the OS market share http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...
Re: For Thanksgiving, give your parents a treat: upgrade their browser
#3Pro tip: dont insist, 99% of them will never change the browser, instead install Chrome Frame
Re: For Thanksgiving, give your parents a treat: upgrade their browser
#4The idea is cute, but seems unlikely to happen. If someone's parents are the sort to let their children upgrade their browser, they're also the sort that probably had their computer set up by their children which means it's probably already updated. If they're the sort that are in control of their own computer usage they probably aren't comfortable with their children changing the way their computer works.
Re: For Thanksgiving, give your parents a treat: upgrade their browser
#5Pro tip: dont insist, 99% of them will never change the browser, instead install Chrome Frame
That's actually been the opposite of my experience. A year in, my inlaws still thank me for installing Chrome.
Re: For Thanksgiving, give your parents a treat: upgrade their browser
#6I tried doing that a couple of times and they end up looking for the blue "e". Somehow that's their symbol for "the internet".
So what I did next was not uninstall but hide the icon and leave the chrome & FF visible. Now my dad uses Firefox and he calls it "the mozilla" hehe. And my mom somehow figured out a way to find IE, I guess she couldn't live without it.
That was my case at least.
Re: For Thanksgiving, give your parents a treat: upgrade their browser
#7I tried doing that a couple of times and they end up looking for the blue "e". Somehow that's their symbol for "the internet". So what I did next was not uninstall but hide the icon and leave the chrome & FF visible. Now my dad uses Firefox and he calls it "the mozilla" hehe. And my mom somehow figured out a way to find IE, I guess she couldn't live without it. That was my case at least.
I just changed the icon of chrome to the blue "e". Problem solved.
Re: For Thanksgiving, give your parents a treat: upgrade their browser
#8I tried doing that a couple of times and they end up looking for the blue "e". Somehow that's their symbol for "the internet". So what I did next was not uninstall but hide the icon and leave the chrome & FF visible. Now my dad uses Firefox and he calls it "the mozilla" hehe. And my mom somehow figured out a way to find IE, I guess she couldn't live without it. That was my case at least.
I hid IE after installing Chrome frame, then replaced both Chrome and FF icons with the IE icon.
Just in case.
Re: For Thanksgiving, give your parents a treat: upgrade their browser
#9I tried doing that a couple of times and they end up looking for the blue "e". Somehow that's their symbol for "the internet". So what I did next was not uninstall but hide the icon and leave the chrome & FF visible. Now my dad uses Firefox and he calls it "the mozilla" hehe. And my mom somehow figured out a way to find IE, I guess she couldn't live without it. That was my case at least.
I think Lifehacker had a spin of the story in which the author linked the firefox APP to the IE ICON and said if you wanted to be really sneaky you could just rename Firefox to IE Explorer.
Re: For Thanksgiving, give your parents a treat: upgrade their browser
#10This should be a non-issue but on Windows XP [1] silent application upgrades often fail because they require admin privileges. [1] Win XP still has a third of the OS market share http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...
Also, IE9 doesn't run on XP and no version of IE for XP supports SNI [1], which is reason enough to switch it to other browser.