How to Ask Parents to Allow a Download of Firefox

As an astute Internet user, you'd like all the bells and whistles available to help you navigate the web. Your parents, however, have technological challenges and want to stick with what they know. This presents a problem when you share a computer. Here's how to convince your parents to let you download the Firefox web browser.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

1. Be polite and respectful and have all your arguments well thought out and written down, just like a business plan.
2. Point out to your parents that they can keep their current web browser along with Firefox. You can use Firefox and they can use their favorite.
3. Show parents that Firefox is free and won't cost anything to download. In addition, the program is smaller, faster and more secure than some other browsers.
4. Tell them it blocks annoying pop ups and blocks spoofing so you can see where the links really take you. Point out there is less chance of getting spy ware, ad ware and viruses with Firefox simply because fewer people use it, so hackers concentrate on more heavily used browsers.
5. Mention that the Firefox browser is very user-friendly with a Google toolbar embedded for quick searches, fully customizable toolbars and smart keywords.
6. Bring up to your parents that Firefox has a session saver so they won't lose information if the power goes out or some other inadvertent event happens while they are browsing.
7. Explain the versatile Firefox bookmarks manager, especially if your parents have a tendency to bookmark many pages. Firefox will let them sort their bookmarks by category and even make notes about why they bookmarked the page in the first place.
8. Educate your parents on the increased display space allowed by the Firefox full-screen mode. Tell them it will reduce eyestrain.