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I was just doing customer service help with someone today actually. IE 6.0. I wanted to throw the guy into a lake. Of fire.
by Mystalic 18y ago
I was just doing customer service help with someone today actually. IE 6.0. I wanted to throw the guy into a lake. Of fire.
- mikeyur 18y ago"Ok, here's what I want you to do.. Go to mozilla.com/firefox"
- silentbicycle 18y agoWhat if the computer is too old to run Firefox 3? Serious question. My fiancee was fixing up an old computer to give to our nephew, and when she tried to install Firefox, it refused, essentially saying, "Your computer is too old." * She grabbed a 2.x install file from OldApps.com, but many of the people still running IE6 won't be tech savvy enough to do that, and are likely to be running really old computers. (And even when FF can be installed, it tends to suck up memory. What do you do with a computer that maxes out at 128MB ram?) * I think it was a memory issue, but mainly I remember that it was unexpectedly off-putting.
- Freaky 18y agoRecommended configuration for Opera 9: Pentium II class system with 64 MB of RAM and at least 50 MB of free disk space
- silentbicycle 18y agoFair enough. I'm just saying that a kneejerk "use firefox!" doesn't necessarily help: it isn't that simple. Whether you should really need so much computing power just run a web browser is a different matter entirely. My cell phone probably has more processing power (and definitely has far more memory and storage) than my desktop computer did when I was in high school.
- mikeyur 18y agoFor the vast majority of people, Firefox will work on their system. I wish Mozilla lowered the requirements for systems or only installed a 'light' version on older systems.