AOL Builds New IE-Based Browser

jfruhlinger writes "According to News.com.com.com, America Online is preparing to release a free AOL-branded browser that is 'based on Microsoft's Internet Explorer technology.' The browser will be available to users who don't have AOL as their ISP. I admit that I find this development baffling -- not only does AOL already own a browser, but why on earth would a non-AOL user want to use an AOL-branded version of IE?"

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Re:How can I put this nicely

[moonbender]

You needed IE6 to use eBay? Odd. eBay recommends IE 5.5 or above, or the "latest" version of Netscape, which I guess means any recent Gecko version. Neither Netscape or Opera are guaranteed to work, though, although personally it has always worked fine for me with both - must've been a fairly obscure feature. :)