Do Your Folks A Favor On "Update Your Parents' Browser Day"
Do Your Folks A Favor On "Update Your Parents' Browser Day"
Posted 11/25/2011 at 11:39am
| by Brad Chacos
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If you’re a Maximum PC reader, there’s a good chance that you’re the computer geek that relatives call when they get infected with a nasty piece of malware. With it being the day after Thanksgiving, there’s also an above-average chance that you might be over at your folks’ house at some point today. It’s time to strike and make things easier for your future self! Leave Black Friday to others and hop on the new post-Turkey Day bandwagon: Update Your Parents’ Browser Day. You’ll be glad you did.
The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal dreamed up the new nerd holiday a few days ago in a post that was heavily tongue-in-cheek. But lying in the center of all that sarcasm was a glistening gold nugget of a great idea, and other big names quickly took up the call to arms. Google’s search guru Matt Cutts tweeted a reminder in the midst of feasting yesterday, and Microsoft’s IE blog created a list of the top ten times to update your parents’ browser (Number one being: “When they’re distracted by grilling you about when you’re going to get a real job, when you’re going to settle down, and when you’re going to give them grandchildren. “) We’re just going to say you should do it to save yourself some future headaches.
Madrigal offered up some tips in his original post: “Don't switch brands on them. No putting Chrome instead of Firefox or Internet Explorer. Keep it simple.” Sounds good to us. So what are you waiting for? Get to updating and put your blissfully unaware parents out of their IE6 misery!
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Holly Golightly
November 26, 2011 at 12:15am
Gosh... My NetScape Navigator memories... Heart warming. I really miss NetScape so damn much. You could fool your parents who still use NetScape to use FireFox with this Add-On called "FoxScape" which makes FireFox look identicle to NetScape Navigator 3.0! Good times. It is what I am using now. It is also sad to see Flock dead. Amazing how the second newest browser could die off so quickly. I am looking at the big N throbber. :)
The Corrupted One
November 25, 2011 at 11:51pm
It's actually that time of year at school, and i'm the tech manager.
Time to get crackin on some Chrome + Adblock
winmaster
November 25, 2011 at 8:04pm
Why is the IE icon from a Mac?
Also, I still live with my parents, so their browser gets updated whenever I want.
znod
November 25, 2011 at 1:20pm
HaHaHa. You are funny. My parents died in 1965, and I got my first computer in 1978. I think I am good to go on dealing with my own browser choice. I still use Cbyerdog. :) Do you know Cyberdog?
Cregan89
November 25, 2011 at 5:50pm
Never heard of Cyberdog, so I looked it up. There's a big warning on the homepage about a necessary patch to fix a Y2K bug. I can assure you that you are not "good to go on dealing with my own browser choice".
znod
November 26, 2011 at 6:10am
It was a joke, Cregan89. Sorry, I didn't mean to trick you. I use Chrome almost all the time on both PCs and Macs. Otherwise I use Firefox or Safari occasionally voluntarily. I use IE only in the rare event that a website requires it for some purpose--which happens only very seldomly these days. As you probably found out, Cyberdog was a terrible browser that Apple experimented with for a while.
Mortal_M
November 25, 2011 at 9:33pm
he he he, I was curious too, but now I know what a webpage looked like back in the day.
furiousdc
November 25, 2011 at 1:20pm
Most parents will freak out because the buttons all moved!!!! Everything looks different!!!
jey18
November 25, 2011 at 12:28pm
Good idea, parents... grandparents... any relative really. ninite.com should help speed up the process too.
aarcane
November 25, 2011 at 12:02pm
Can you name those browsers in the picture? I don't recognize some of them. (1, 1), (1, 3), and (2,1-3), numbered from top-left to bottom-right, though I'm sure some people would want to know moar of them
threefivesix
November 25, 2011 at 12:51pm
1,1: Internet Explorer
1,2: Firefox
1,3: Safari
1,4: Netscape
2,1: Chrome
2,2: ?
2,3: Opera
2,4: Flock
3,1: Konqueror
3,2: ?
3,3: Maxthon
3, 4: Camino
aarcane
November 25, 2011 at 3:09pm
Excellent, that just leaves two moar (and sorry I 0-indexed my list)
Danthrax66
November 25, 2011 at 12:24pm
http://alternativebrowseralliance.com/browsers.html still missing some
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