Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Alternative Browser Alliance

After the flame war between Mozilla Firefox and Opera users got really too hot, one person formed a website to bring efforts to spread all non-IE browsers under one roof. The website named "Alternative Browser Alliance", its job is to spread knowledge of the alternatives to unsafe Internet Explorer and hopefully bring Mozilla Firefox and Opera users together.

From the site:
I launched this site in response to the overblown rivalry between Firefox and Opera users. The way I see it, both groups have a common enemy: dominance of the web by a single browser, currently Internet Explorer. At this stage of the game, every percentage point Firefox pulls from IE is a win for Opera, and vice versa, because it spreads awareness that there are alternatives, and that it might be worth trying them out.

This site is intended as a truce. We're in this together.
I applauds this effort because I agreed with the fact that the rivalry between Mozilla Firefox and Opera users are getting out of hands. Both sides need to be reminded that most of the planet are still using Internet Explorer and we need to help them to be aware of what they are surfing the web with and how to make it safer and more enjoyable.

Alternative Browser Alliance

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the support! I started out trying to play peacemaker in people's blog comments (especially Asa's blog and Opera Watch), but just kept getting dragged into the flamewars. I figured a campaign might be more effective.