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by 'switching' and trying Firefox/Chrome/etc., they are giving up the bookmarks, toolbars, and whatever other customizations they've downloaded and installed on
by pgbovine 17y ago
by 'switching' and trying Firefox/Chrome/etc., they are giving up the bookmarks, toolbars, and whatever other customizations they've downloaded and installed on their browser (presumably IE since that's the default that non-geeks use on Windows) ... sure, they could export their bookmarks, re-download toolbars, etc., but that's costly for a non-geek.
- derefr 17y agoEverything nowadays imports bookmarks automatically (though it doesn't keep them synched once it has them.) Also, I don't know anyone that "customizes" IE—most people just accidentally install a toolbar or two while installing, for example, the JRE.