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My parents are running Linux now, but when they were on Windows, I just changed the Firefox shortcut's icon to be the IE icon. I didn't change anything else (no

My parents are running Linux now, but when they were on Windows, I just changed the Firefox shortcut's icon to be the IE icon. I didn't change anything else (not even the text below the icon from "Mozilla Firefox" to "Internet Explorer"), but my parents of course didn't notice.

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bitops 15y ago
Very clever. When I first started using Linux, I always wondered why in the world anyone would use the "Redmond" skin for the desktop. Of course, it's for subterfuge. :)
- jiggy2011 15y ago
  perhaps somebody should release a modern browser that is visually identical to IE6.
  - billpatrianakos 15y ago
    That's such a good idea with both the icon and a browser that looks like ie6 but isn't. Old UI over a new back end. Wonderful! I believe I remember a time when you could skin Internet explorer however you like. Is that still possible? If so, would it be realistic to believe someone can create an IE6 skin for IE9 or 10? I haven't touched Windows in years and years so forgive me if that sounded naive. In fact, I have a dual boot loop with Win7 and Linux and I only booted into Windows once to download the Linux distro, haha.
RyanKearney 15y ago
That would have been "cute" 3 years ago, but now Firefox sucks more than ever before. Hell, IE 9 is actually better than the latest version of Firefox and Mozilla just keeps digging their grave deeper. 1 year from now Firefox will be the next Netscape Navigator and be nothing more than a pale memory.