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AOL Plans A Standalone Browser
Patik writes "America Online is creating its own standalone browser, aimed at employees who cannot install AOL software at their workstations. The browser will be based on Internet Explorer but will include other features such as tabbed browsing that displays a thumbnail of the page as you pass your cursor over it. The browser will also integrate AOL's media player and will be able to access AOL-only content."
You need an AOL login to acces the "PREMIUM SECTION", which is indeed all flash. Unless AOL has done another website redesign since about two days ago. I wouldn't be surprised.
Boy, it's a hoot.
Thumbnail tabs? Hm, sounds a lot like OmniWeb. :)
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One popular reason for banning AOL on company computers is because (at least a few years ago), the AOL client could seriously hose a computer. At the very least, it would toy with your network settings, and I've heard rumors that it could even damage Windows's bootup/shutdown sequences.
This was the stated reason for the AOL ban at the last place I was that had one, and if that really is the only reason, then this browser might be able to fly if it can escape the AOL client stigma.
Would somebody please explain how AOL thinks users who can't install the full AOL client on their workstations thanks to sysadmin-imposed policies will be able to get the AOL Browser installed?
Unzip and run, like the Firefox zip builds, unless policies prohibit running executables not signed by IT.
We already defacto banned IE on the Engineering network at the uni i work at, so i seriously doubt my department would allow this piece of crap to be installed either. Since moving over to mozilla / firefox, our spyware calls have dropped radically (easily 75-80% drop this semster) and allowing anything based on IE, let alone a AOL product, is just stupidity at its best.
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They did. It was called Mozilla.
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America Online is creating its own standalone browser,
:-D.Stop trying to make the shit taste better.There are already stuff available that do that.
Try Avant Browser
Does stand-alone mean that it wouldnt take the OS with it when it crashes ?
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Just STOP re-inventing the wheel !
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...not to mention that it's old news: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/08/201520 8
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More importantly, could someone explain to me why anyone would want to install any AOL client in the first place?
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I've been a field technician for over 5 years, and I can personally vouch for the fact that installing AOL puts your Windows installation at considerable risk.
It integrates so tightly with Windows and it has a hook into everything. I've seen almost as many problems caused by the AOL client as Bonzi Buddy.
Yes the rumors are true - in no uncertain terms, the AOL client can damage your Windows installation. You cannot expect a stable configuration with it installed.
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We already know that AOL has worked to integrate the IE engine into Netscape, has reworked the winamp core into a new AMP player using XUL for the interface, and implemented an AIM client in XUL. That appears to me to be a very consistent plan to integrate all their products / acquisitions into a new internet suite, based on Mozilla XUL.
No, the AMP is using wxWindows, not xul.
from Henrik Gemal's blog
Nope, they prohibit users from *installing* software. i.e. letting users install stuff into the system libraries directories and the registry, etc. Nothing would stop them from using something if it only needed user privileges to install and run, say from a CD or their home directory.
I assume you mean "regedt32.exe", right? If so, according to this KB article, on an XP system, regedt32.exe just calls the normal regedit.exe program.
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