Vendors Push for Fairer Browser Choice Screen

March 19th, 2010 admin

Poor Microsoft — they must be wondering when it’s all going to end. Their browser choice screen was launched on 1 March following costly EU legal shenanigans. Statisticians then reported that the random browser display was not as random as it could be . Now the makers of Avant, Flock, GreenBrowser, K-meleon, Maxthon, Sleipnir and Slim have complained to the EU about the visibility of their browsers. The vendors state that it’s not immediately obvious there are further browser choices beyond the initial five displayed on the choice screen : You can see their point — anyone …


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