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We reported recently how Mozilla has mutated into Godzilla with its “this page contains unauthenticated content” warning that we now know for sure has been confusing our customers at best and losing them at worst.
Now, under EEC rules Microsoft has to give a fair competition to all the browsers so Browser Choice has arrived. What choice? Is there one of these that actually works? As far as we find, each browser works for some sites that another won’t work for, one will print an online form whilst another freezes. There is no knowing what any website really looks like since each browser interprets it differently. An easy way to have a winning choice would be for there to be a browser that actually works! I mean, would you buy a car if it would only drive on 91% of the roads, accept only certain brands of petrol and the windscreen inverted the colour spectrum? I thought not. Still, as long as Mozilla Godzilla doesn’t win we don’t mind!
… and a big no hand for Mozilla Corporation for kicking all online businesses where it hurts - thank you. Just what we need is a new version of Mozilla Firefox that displays a warning message on the golden padlock on perfectly secure checkout pages. We are not quite sure what planet these Mozilla Firefox programmers are from but we wish they’d have stayed there! We recommend that everyone gives up on Mozilla Firefox and goes back to Internet Explorer or another browser. This really is the last straw. There have always been incompatibility problems with Mozilla Firefox but when you can’t even order anything from B&Q without the golden padlock showing a warning that this page contains unauthenticated content then we are going from the merely annoying to the outright ridiculous! I expect that like other online retailers we have lost business due to the incompetence of Mozilla Corporation in releasing such a poor upgrade. New buyers on the Internet only know that the golden padlock means it is safe to enter your card details. If there is a warning message there that they don’t understand they are likely not to buy. Mind you, in the end they might find out that it is happening all over the place and suspect that the problem is Mozilla Firefox and not the websites they wanted to buy from. Of course, it is rather unfortunate for the first few websites that they abort their purchase from …
So as far as we are concerned its bye bye Mozilla and hello old IE … and we’d like to assure customers that if you have seen this warning message using Mozilla Firefox if you use IE instead you won’t get the warning message. Why do these large corporations think they can start to play at being God? Or in Mozilla’s case, Godzilla?
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