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<blockquote data-quote="coolioWiZ" data-source="post: 780699" data-attributes="member: 40999"><p>From:</p><p><strong><a href="http://www.askreamaor.com/internet-and-seo/what-your-web-browser-says-about-you-part-1/" target="_blank">http://www.askreamaor.com/internet-and-seo/what-your-web-browser-says-about-you-part-1/</a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="http://www.askreamaor.com/internet-and-seo/what-your-web-browser-says-about-you-part-2/" target="_blank">http://www.askreamaor.com/internet-and-seo/what-your-web-browser-says-about-you-part-2/</a></strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #a0522d"><strong>Internet Explorer 6 and below</strong></span> Your son-in-law set up your computer for you on a Thanksgiving weekend, and you haven’t had the nerve to try to change anything. The computer is so virus-infested, if it ever does what you tell it to any more, it’s a miracle. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: #a0522d"><strong>Internet Explorer 7</strong></span> You’re content to shuffle along with the herd. They usually know the best thing to do, that’s why they’re a herd. You’re relieved that transparent PNGs finally don’t have a blue box around them, and these tab thingies are just great, but you’re still troubled by this rumor that browsers can have extensions and themes. Blasphemy! </p><p></p><p><span style="color: #a0522d"><strong>Firefox</strong></span> You’re actually one step ahead of the curve, and are smugly proud of yourself. As long as your PCs memory chips don’t actually catch fire and you don’t run the rest of your operating system at the same time as Firefox, you’ll do fine. Since Firefox has enough bloat to actually be the rest of your operating system, that’s a minor point. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: #a0522d"><strong>Ice Weasel</strong></span> Congratulations; you have taken sides in one of the pettiest web flame-wars ever. You might also spend a due amount of time correcting people on the difference between Internet and World Wide Web, or the difference between Linux and GNU/Linux or the difference between Mac OS and OS X. You would not pass up the opportunity to point out a grammatical error, even if you were running away from a bomb. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: #a0522d"><strong>Flock</strong></span> You’ll download anything, won’t you? To you, the web was never anything but social. You are so driven to be on the cutting edge, that most of us never hear from you, because by the time some place is two days old it’s no longer cool enough to hang out in. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: #a0522d"><strong>Opera</strong></span> You’re actually one of the few who are elite without being so insufferable about pointing it out to people. You actually like to look at web pages that were rendered correctly instead of looking like they’ve been through the blender. You don’t care about frills and features. It’s a web browser, not an operating system, dammit! </p><p></p><p><span style="color: #a0522d"><strong>Safari</strong></span> Your son-in-law set up your iMac for you on a Thanksgiving weekend, and you haven’t had the nerve to try to change anything. Besides, it’s so shiny, it works great, and you never have problems. You do spend a bit much time complaining about the lack of media files in Quicktime format, however.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #a0522d"><strong>SeaMonkey</strong></span> You’re pretty much in the web to hack it, not to look at it. Before, you were wondering when we would have a way to bring the complexity of the Unix command line to the simple web browser world, and now your prayers have been answered. Please don’t hurt the rest of us. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: #a0522d"><strong>Netscape</strong></span> Your dad set up your computer for you in 1997, and you haven’t had the nerve to try to change anything. You jump for joy every time you get an AOL CD in the mail, because using those free hours is the only way you can get online at all, since your CompuServe account finally ran out. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: #a0522d"><strong>Mozilla</strong></span> You’re Jamie Zawinski. And you’re laughing your ass off. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: #a0522d"><strong>Konqueror</strong></span> You’re actually joking. Nobody intentionally goes online with something that has the bloat of Firefox and the functionality of Internet Explorer, while being tied to the kitchen sink of Linux desktops. More likely, you were using your file manager under the watchful gaze of Konqi, when you accidentally entered a URL in the file search field and discovered - surprise! - it can go online. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: #a0522d"><strong>Camino</strong></span> It’s worth it to cruise the web in Camino, just to hear everybody ooh and aah at how cool you are. First, you were tasteful enough to get a Mac, then savvy enough to install an open source web browser on it. Next, you’ll be telling us your Darwin-based project just got a seven-figure round of investment from silicon valley. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: #a0522d"><strong>Lynx/Links/w3m</strong></span> If you’re not blind and needing a text-to-speech translator, the only other reason for using a text-mode browser is you’re working in the console and too busy to switch to the desktop just to look up one thing, or you’re archaic or intimidatingly impatient. Or you’re a bot. Come to think of it, text mode browsers don’t say anything reliable about you. Would you like some nice ASCII art to look at? </p><p></p><p> ___</p><p> {~._.~}</p><p> ( Y )</p><p> ()~*~()</p><p> (_)-(_) </p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #a0522d"><strong>Dillo</strong></span> You’re a Dillo developer testing the next release. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: #a0522d"><strong>Galeon/Epiphany</strong></span> You’re one of those quiet people who hangs out in the back and of whom everybody thinks little about until they come talk to you. Then they find out you’re an exotic dancer, movie stuntman, or NSA agent. This would be discounted, however, by the fact that you use Gnome.</p><p></p><p><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/lol.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="LOL :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="coolioWiZ, post: 780699, member: 40999"] From: [B][URL="http://www.askreamaor.com/internet-and-seo/what-your-web-browser-says-about-you-part-1/"]http://www.askreamaor.com/internet-and-seo/what-your-web-browser-says-about-you-part-1/[/URL] [URL="http://www.askreamaor.com/internet-and-seo/what-your-web-browser-says-about-you-part-2/"]http://www.askreamaor.com/internet-and-seo/what-your-web-browser-says-about-you-part-2/[/URL][/B] [COLOR="#a0522d"][B]Internet Explorer 6 and below[/B][/COLOR] Your son-in-law set up your computer for you on a Thanksgiving weekend, and you haven’t had the nerve to try to change anything. The computer is so virus-infested, if it ever does what you tell it to any more, it’s a miracle. [COLOR="#a0522d"][B]Internet Explorer 7[/B][/COLOR] You’re content to shuffle along with the herd. They usually know the best thing to do, that’s why they’re a herd. You’re relieved that transparent PNGs finally don’t have a blue box around them, and these tab thingies are just great, but you’re still troubled by this rumor that browsers can have extensions and themes. Blasphemy! [COLOR="#a0522d"][B]Firefox[/B][/COLOR] You’re actually one step ahead of the curve, and are smugly proud of yourself. As long as your PCs memory chips don’t actually catch fire and you don’t run the rest of your operating system at the same time as Firefox, you’ll do fine. Since Firefox has enough bloat to actually be the rest of your operating system, that’s a minor point. [COLOR="#a0522d"][B]Ice Weasel[/B][/COLOR] Congratulations; you have taken sides in one of the pettiest web flame-wars ever. You might also spend a due amount of time correcting people on the difference between Internet and World Wide Web, or the difference between Linux and GNU/Linux or the difference between Mac OS and OS X. You would not pass up the opportunity to point out a grammatical error, even if you were running away from a bomb. [COLOR="#a0522d"][B]Flock[/B][/COLOR] You’ll download anything, won’t you? To you, the web was never anything but social. You are so driven to be on the cutting edge, that most of us never hear from you, because by the time some place is two days old it’s no longer cool enough to hang out in. [COLOR="#a0522d"][B]Opera[/B][/COLOR] You’re actually one of the few who are elite without being so insufferable about pointing it out to people. You actually like to look at web pages that were rendered correctly instead of looking like they’ve been through the blender. You don’t care about frills and features. It’s a web browser, not an operating system, dammit! [COLOR="#a0522d"][B]Safari[/B][/COLOR] Your son-in-law set up your iMac for you on a Thanksgiving weekend, and you haven’t had the nerve to try to change anything. Besides, it’s so shiny, it works great, and you never have problems. You do spend a bit much time complaining about the lack of media files in Quicktime format, however. [COLOR="#a0522d"][B]SeaMonkey[/B][/COLOR] You’re pretty much in the web to hack it, not to look at it. Before, you were wondering when we would have a way to bring the complexity of the Unix command line to the simple web browser world, and now your prayers have been answered. Please don’t hurt the rest of us. [COLOR="#a0522d"][B]Netscape[/B][/COLOR] Your dad set up your computer for you in 1997, and you haven’t had the nerve to try to change anything. You jump for joy every time you get an AOL CD in the mail, because using those free hours is the only way you can get online at all, since your CompuServe account finally ran out. [COLOR="#a0522d"][B]Mozilla[/B][/COLOR] You’re Jamie Zawinski. And you’re laughing your ass off. [COLOR="#a0522d"][B]Konqueror[/B][/COLOR] You’re actually joking. Nobody intentionally goes online with something that has the bloat of Firefox and the functionality of Internet Explorer, while being tied to the kitchen sink of Linux desktops. More likely, you were using your file manager under the watchful gaze of Konqi, when you accidentally entered a URL in the file search field and discovered - surprise! - it can go online. [COLOR="#a0522d"][B]Camino[/B][/COLOR] It’s worth it to cruise the web in Camino, just to hear everybody ooh and aah at how cool you are. First, you were tasteful enough to get a Mac, then savvy enough to install an open source web browser on it. Next, you’ll be telling us your Darwin-based project just got a seven-figure round of investment from silicon valley. [COLOR="#a0522d"][B]Lynx/Links/w3m[/B][/COLOR] If you’re not blind and needing a text-to-speech translator, the only other reason for using a text-mode browser is you’re working in the console and too busy to switch to the desktop just to look up one thing, or you’re archaic or intimidatingly impatient. Or you’re a bot. Come to think of it, text mode browsers don’t say anything reliable about you. Would you like some nice ASCII art to look at? ___ {~._.~} ( Y ) ()~*~() (_)-(_) [COLOR="#a0522d"][B]Dillo[/B][/COLOR] You’re a Dillo developer testing the next release. [COLOR="#a0522d"][B]Galeon/Epiphany[/B][/COLOR] You’re one of those quiet people who hangs out in the back and of whom everybody thinks little about until they come talk to you. Then they find out you’re an exotic dancer, movie stuntman, or NSA agent. This would be discounted, however, by the fact that you use Gnome. :lol: [/QUOTE]
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