AOL Browser 1.0.4234.89 Released

[Midnight Mick]

AOL Browser is a stand-alone browser featuring tabbed browsing, thumbnail tab popups, and many more special features

What's New in This Release:

? Middle Mouse wheel now supports opening and closing tabs on click
? New tabbed browsing features, including:
? Warning when closing browser window that contains multiple open tabs
? Background loading of tabs preference
? Drag and drop functionality enabled on the tab layer. Open tabs can now be reordered via drag and drop.
? Tools ->Power Browsing menu has been reordered with flyouts
? Restore Defaults function has been added to all settings tabs in the Tools->Settings menu
? New Sign On touch point in the Menu layer
? New Startup folder included in AOL Browser favorites folder. Load sites in separate tabs at startup
? New Panel Chooser now available under AOL Browser Settings menu to customize left hand slideout panels.
? New Search Quick Access Panel on hover over magnifying glass search icon on navigation layer

Softpedia- AOL Browser

http://beta.aol.com/aolbrowser/

Screen shots:

http://www.softpedia.com/screenshots//AOL-Browser_1.png

http://www.softpedia.com/screenshots//AOL-Browser_2.png

http://www.softpedia.com/screenshots//AOL-Browser_3.png

[JustGeorge]

Looks somewhat interesting. Does it attempt to take over your system like standard AOL software? Is it Mozilla based?

[sdb815]

Looks pretty good considering it's from AOL. :p

[Midnight Mick]

Looks somewhat interesting. Does it attempt to take over your system like standard AOL software? Is it Mozilla based?

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To be honest I don't know.

I just spotted it & was hoping someone could shine some light onto what engine it uses etc...? :)

[Matthew.]

To be honest I don't know.

I just spotted it & was hoping someone could shine some light onto what engine it uses etc...??:))

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It use IE engine .

Btw thanks for heads up Midnight Mick :))

[Chouzan]

It makes use of the Trident layout engine, same as Internet Explorer.

[Tungsten T]

It makes use of the Trident layout engine, same as Internet Explorer.

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but is it open to ie vunribilitys and Active X

[Midnight Mick]

but is it open to ie vunribilitys and Active X

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Good question.

[Rix]

I gotta say, it looks dam nice (Y)

[Chouzan]

but is it open to ie vunribilitys and Active X

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That may be the case, but it may have a few safeguards and/or ActiveX features disabled; have not given it a run myself.

[greg098]

can only people that use AOL use this browser?

[JAbad28]

IMO the browser looks awesome!! Lovin' the itnerface. Hope everyone can use it and it won't contain any shiet like spyware or adware.

[Chouzan]

Everyone is open to use the browser, at least for the beta test; doubt they would close it off afterwards.

[JAbad28]

It is awesome, you guy's should try this, there are alot of great features!!

[Malisk]

Why is AOL making one browser based on Trident, and another a hybrid of Gecko/Trident... AT THE SAME TIME.

Hmm... Has AOL even commented on that? It's so strange.

Talking about Netscape 8 and this one.

[CJ33]

lol.. i guess im the only one that thinks it looks stupid....

[JAbad28]

Why is AOL making one browser based on Trident, and another a hybrid of Gecko/Trident... AT THE SAME TIME.

Hmm... Has AOL even commented on that? It's so strange.

Talking about Netscape 8 and this one.

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Lol, I don't really know. I thought Netscape and AOL were different companies...

[vertigosity]

Nah, AOL bought Netscape a loooooong time ago. Back about the time Netscape 4.7 was released, IIRC.

[thetombraider]

I'm downloading it, and using it now. It's almost too pretty to be functional. And it adds about 5 processes too which are probably fairly useless. It doesn't even have adblocking. And obviously, it's way too integrated with the AOL service.

I'm indifferent really.

[groingo2]

Tried 4 times to install...two from softpedia and two from AOL site, both failed to install with no explanation, just a Installation Failed message...

[Joseph Zollo]

Oooh, I spy RSS! Not bad...for AOL :p

[smashguy]

It looks pretty nice!! :)

[kyro]

Stupid browser ... Nice skin :p

:devil:

[Tokar]

AOL Browser is a stand-alone browser featuring tabbed browsing, thumbnail tab popups, and many more special features

What's New in This Release:

? Middle Mouse wheel now supports opening and closing tabs on click
? New tabbed browsing features, including:
? Warning when closing browser window that contains multiple open tabs
? Background loading of tabs preference
? Drag and drop functionality enabled on the tab layer. Open tabs can now be reordered via drag and drop.
? Tools ->Power Browsing menu has been reordered with flyouts
? Restore Defaults function has been added to all settings tabs in the Tools->Settings menu
? New Sign On touch point in the Menu layer
? New Startup folder included in AOL Browser favorites folder. Load sites in separate tabs at startup
? New Panel Chooser now available under AOL Browser Settings menu to customize left hand slideout panels.
? New Search Quick Access Panel on hover over magnifying glass search icon on navigation layer

Softpedia- AOL Browser

http://beta.aol.com/aolbrowser/

Screen shots:

http://www.softpedia.com/screenshots//AOL-Browser_1.png

http://www.softpedia.com/screenshots//AOL-Browser_2.png

http://www.softpedia.com/screenshots//AOL-Browser_3.png

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0.89 has been out for a little while.

I had to talk to the moderator of posting new softwares on the Windows Section of Softpedia into posting AOL Browser.

And by the way...dont bash the AOL Browser just because its from AOL.

This is by far the most fun ive had in any browser to date.

It has tabbing...

it has thumbnnail images of your favorites and tabs when you hover your mouse over the tab/favorte...

it works with IE favicons in AMDeadlink for example.

It imports IE favorites

it has a beatiful interface

its fast

it works with all IE downloaded installations (as it should since its an IE frontend).

the settings window is pretty sweet...

They fixed some nice stuff i noticed that needed fixing from 0.86.

There is only 3 things that AOL browser puts on your computer that one probably will not like:

1) a service in your service config for the AOL TopSpeed, set to STARTED and AUTOMATIC....easily fixed though in services.msc

2) AOL Desktop Search in the startup and the system tray. This is easily fixed by killing the service in the Processes tab of the Task Manager, and removing the startup entry in MSConfig

3) AOLHostManager. I dont know what this is, but its added to the startup programs in msconfig. Easily removed in msconfig as always.

Thats it...

No Spyware

No AOL Crapware which normally would come with AOL software (see AOL 9.0 heh)

No Adware

It has built in RSS support...

Its free...

[Tokar]

Looks somewhat interesting. Does it attempt to take over your system like standard AOL software? Is it Mozilla based?

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no overtaking

no crapware from AOL...well the AOL desktop search, but thats it. The browser comes with AOL TopSpeed, which is a means to speeding up web surfing.

AOL says it supports AIM and AOL accounts. I dont have an AOL account, only AIM. So when i try to login with my AIm account to use top speed, it says Password Error and it shows this window asking for my password that i cant close. The only way to get rid of it is to force kill the browser and restart it. I just disabled the TopSpeed service in services.msc, siince im on broadband anyways...what speed up of web surfing do i need? 10 milliseconds? yeah...right...