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AOL Drops MSIE for Netscape in Mac OS X Beta

Posted by pudge on from the took-em-long-enough dept.

Kitzilla writes "AOL introduces an 'Aquafied' client for Max OS X, and pulls the plug on Internet Explorer. It's AOL for Mac, Version 2: now with a tasty Gecko filling." news.com has a story. I wonder if Mac OS X will ever ship with a Netscape/Mozilla browser. I wonder if Mozilla will be shipped with Windows clients in the future. I wonder if this will pave the way to a a full-fledged Linux version of AOL. I wonder if this will ignite another AOL/MS war. I wonder how 24 will end this Tuesday.

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  1. does anyone really care? by FaRuvius · · Score: 0, Troll

    I know that the whole anti-M$ thing bodes for mozilla, but comeon, IE is by far the better browser in terms of compatibility with the majority of websites.
    Mozilla is just not being developed fast enough.

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  2. AOLinux. by saintlupus · · Score: 1, Troll

    I wonder if this will pave the way to a a full-fledged Linux version of AOL.

    Yeah, because all of the Linux users I know are simply dying to use AOL.

    On another note, I'm hoping that the AOL client browser has the tabbed browsing from Moz in the future. Man, this rocks -- Mozilla 1.0 RC2 has completely replaced OmniWeb as my browser of choice on OS X.

    (I do sort of miss the spall checker, though.)

    --saint