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Does anyone know of a better landing page for convincing people to leave Internet Explorer? (specifically, aging relatives)

Browse Happy is the only one I know of.

http://browsehappy.com/

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Your best bet might just be to install a different browser and see if they notice.

There is probably an opportunity here to create a firefox or chrome extension that makes the basic UI Mimic Internet Explorer exactly so people don't notice.

> There is probably an opportunity here to create a firefox or chrome extension that makes the basic UI Mimic Internet Explorer exactly so people don't notice.

Or easier yet, just install Chrome Frame.

That's only going to work for sites that explicitly require it (i.e don't work in IE). So they're still going to be using IE 99% of the time.

That's easy to fix: http://www.labnol.org/software/force-google-chrome-in-intern...

That's actually slightly rude if you ask me.

http://browsehappy.com/?locale=en, for those who don't speak 日本語. Interesting to see a Japanese site like this, considering that the Japanese aren't very enthusiastic about using alternate browsers.

http://browsehappy.com/ is in English for me.

This is what I see: http://i.imgur.com/DRm13.jpg

I get it in my native language, Swedish, which means that they are doing some kind of detection based on the requests your browser is sending, or based on your IP.

If you don't live anywhere near Japan, nor have configured your OS/Browser for this language, I would guess their system for detecting certain region-specific IP's is outdated or broken.

Setting language based on IP address is... terrifyingly inappropriate.

It was in German for me!

I think they're poorly checking Accept:

Unfortunately, quite a lot of the online testing and school support sites won't work with anything else.

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