Firefox zealots offer websites money to switch users from IE

[peat moss]

A group of Firefox advocates from Massachusetts is offering website publishers and bloggers $1 for each Internet Explorer visitor to their sites they can convince to switch to the Mozilla Firefox browser.

Google has recently announced that it will pay websites $1 for each referred download of Firefox it receives via the Google Toolbar. The four anti-Microsoft activists from Massachusetts have developed a series of free scripts that website owners can add to their sites that will detect whether visitors are running Internet Eplorer. Depending on the script, the website will either show a splash page telling them to switch to Firefox or it will put a big switch banner at the top of the page.

:source: Source: http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/4037/53/
:view: Homepage: http://www.explorerdestroyer.com/open_letter.php

[Virtualbody1234]

Now that's going too far.

[TheDave]

:dabs: i don't understand.


i use firefox cause it pwns, not cause i'm a damn hippy

[peat moss]

Now that's going too far.


Maybe Firefox is just looking over their shoulder and Google is "stirring the pot ". But ya does seems low just a marketing ploy what with IE 7 just around the corner . :)

[lynx]

I haven't seen it myself, but from what I've heard Firefox has little to fear.

Nothing new there then.

[Fromagepas]

Now that's going too far.
Yeah, wouldn't want anyone using marketing techniques against Microsoft, who are well known for playing fair and encouraging competition.