Tell your non-techie friends about WhatBrowser.org, which helps explain what a browser is - http://www.whatbrowser.org - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
"A few of us at Google created WhatBrowser.org to help teach people about web browsers. We wanted to show people that they have a lot of choice in browsers, since we noticed that most people were using the browser their computers came with." - Tom Stocky
Considering how much time people spend in the browser, the choice of which one to use is becoming increasingly important. But it seems like we need to do a better job educating our less technical friends -- most people don't realize there's a choice to make. - Tom Stocky