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AOL Releases Client for Mac OS X with Gecko Browser

Posted by pudge on from the and-here-i-am-using-a-plain-old-isp dept.

DietFluffy writes "America Online released an update to their Mac OS X client. The built-in browser is powered by Gecko! However, America Online plans to stick with Internet Explorer for their Windows client. Will this make web designers think twice about tailoring their web pages to Internet Explorer? Or will they ignore this, given that the Windows client will still have Internet Explorer as the default browser?" And if this goes well, will the Windows version eventually use a Gecko-based browser, too?

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  1. arg !? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Heil Hitroll !!!!

  2. AOL + Apple market share is small by NotAnotherReboot · · Score: 2, Troll

    Considering that Apple market share is fairly small and then add in those using AOL on it it's even smaller this won't make much of an impact. Most sites already work completely in Mozilla, the only ones being the ones who don't care about working on every browser, and never have.

  3. Gecko? Don't make me laugh. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I pity the poor Mac AOL-user, because he will have to cope with one of the biggest sacks of shit ever produced in software history: mozilla.

    What a piece of crap. MSIE walks all over it.

  4. AOL is in for the money... watch out.... by Rooked_One · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now that linux is becoming mainstream, it wouldn't suprise me one bit if they are in the process of making an AOL OS.

    HEAD MY WARNING! =)

    (im serious)

  5. Why is this so great? by shftleft · · Score: 1, Troll

    IMHO, IE is by far the best browser out there. I'll admit, this may be so because sites taylor to the IE crowd, but I've found for speed, user friendliness, and ease of use, IE takes the cake. I use galeon on my Linux workstations, but I feel its more unstable and less reliable than IE. I know competition is healthy, but when I is the best then they need to come up with something to compete.

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  6. Re:Web Developers will stick with IE by Mononoke · · Score: 1, Troll
    With .NET you can actually SMELL the IE bias as soon as you start building a page.
    Real web developers don't use .NET.

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  7. ohboy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Now now netscapes infamously crapy browser works with a infamously crapy ISP. If they made their skanky ho of a client operable so that their fucking DSL service worked with people outside of windows land then it MIGHT be interesting. And when the fuck is Mozilla gona stop sucking ass? Probably about when they drop that fucking ugly ass UI skanky ho aka raptor: I don't want a mother fucking POS 3D rendered anything buzword enabled NOTHING if it still looks like shit!. THE FUCK And PLEASE for the love of fucking god YES apples patheticly small market share makes them retarted to do some kinds of support for, on the other hand it'd would make you that much more money if you didn't treat them like third fucking class citzens you pathetic ass ranger apes from post Folsum man era!