Your Web Browser and your IQ!

[Keith Jordan]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14370878

LOL.

"They've got IE6 users with an IQ of around eighty. That's borderline deficient, marginally able to cope with the adult world.

Glad I'm on the FireFox although, with a bit more schooling, I could be on the Opera instead!

[snifferdog]

So how many IE users regularly visit NPF?

[Meandthem]

I'm a firefox, but obviously a would-be opera goer...

[Keith Jordan]

So how many IE users regularly visit NPF?

27.9% of forum visitors use IE and 38.1% use Firefox. Opera is 1.6%.

5% of you can barely function in the adult world as you are using Internet Explorer 6! I bet those people do not even recognise what a browser is even though they are using one!

IE6 is riddled with security vulnerabilities. Check which browser you are using! http://www.thismachine.info/

[mosespa]

It makes perfect sense when you consider that a person with a low IQ, when going to select a web browser, is much more likely to pick the one with the name closest to the description of what it does.

"Internet Explorer" is obviously a web-browser.

What the hell is a firefox (probably a program for burning discs...(and this is me giving people with low IQs some credit)...) or a Google Chrome? An Opera is a really long, boring piece of music.

Myself? I alternate between firefox and google chrome.

My computer has gotten slow enough that I just click on both and see which one opens first.

[justabagofatoms]

What do you have against low I.Q's.?

I'm so brilliant that I have no idea what any of you are talking about, because I have people for that.

I only posted on here in order to irritate Mosespa.

[Stephen]

It makes perfect sense when you consider that a person with a low IQ, when going to select a web browser, is much more likely to pick the one with the name closest to the description of what it does.

"Internet Explorer" is obviously a web-browser.

Seeing as IE is pre-installed (usually) they don't even have to trouble their brain cells to make the choice.

[snifferdog]

Nowadays Microsoft do offer you an option to put on another browser but I've visions of that working out as well for these sort of people as anti-virus notices do. More than once I've had to sort out expired anti virus programs on people's computers because they didn't know what to do when the messages popped up.

The story is apparently a hoax but why let the truth get in the way of a good story

[nosaj]

Ha, ha, frickin' Canadians and their lies; can't trust them eh!

Honestly, I have tended to check several different browsers to see how my web updates looked at work and how search results compare for each...wonder what that would say about my IQ?

[Hudini]

Check which browser you are using! http://www.thismachine.info/

They made a website to tell idiots which browser they are using?!

I myself use Google Chrome most of the time, but the only reason for that is that it has a larger viewing area than the rest of the browsers. I used to be a Firefox user, but it really went unstable and slow somewhere around version 3.5. The rest of the company is using Firefox 4.0.1 though, but I haven't given it a try yet. I also used Opera for some time, but I've found out that most versions of it simply crash for no obvious reason after a few months usage. Oh, and I also use IE for accessing my bank account online.


So, what does that say about my IQ?

[oldhippy]

Looks like you have all been caught out. It was bogus.

Link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14389430

[snifferdog]

It is but it's good to scare the sheeple who use old versions of IE