| GUI:  Features: Ease of use: Value: |  | Im not sure what you are smoking.
But AOL Browser is rally good.
Ive installed both the 0.86 beta, and the 0.89 beta (this version on softpedia)...
1) they both have run great
2) i havent once gotten any adware/spyware
3) never seen a single hijack attempt.
Im sure something else messed up your internet and you are putting the blame on AOL Browser, because hell its AOL software, thats what its supposed to do? or thats what you generally think, right?
Well this AOL product is unlike your normal AOL 9.0 software....it has no intrusive extra softwares. Its just AOL browser with included Desktop search...and thats it.
It makes Internet Explorer more fun...i highly recommend it, contrary to whatever anyone says.
And ive hated AOL software since the beginning... |
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| GUI:  Features: Ease of use: Value: | | | First off, if any of you are thinking that AOL Browser seems like a good idea to download and install, think again. This AOL Browser was working great in the beginning, then my internet would not go to any web page, it messed up my Internet Explorer and I had to repair and reinstall. Then when I reinstalled my Internet Explorer I had to do a adaware scan for spyware and it said that AOL Browser was a hijack attempt. Please Please whatever you do, don't download this crap, it sucks! |
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| | GUI: Features: Ease of use: Value: | | First thing you will notice is that its another variant of IE...which Im all for (Im an antiFirefox person...so im all positive on this one).
it has tabbed browsing...thumbs up.
it seems to run faster than IE, a lot faster...thumbs up.
it imports IE favorites...thumbs up.
it includes a popup blocker similar to IE's, i think a little better in fact, since you have the option to block richmedia...thumbs up.
it has a lot of cool things in integrated website icons, showing a mini-image of the page in the mouse-over popup box...thumbs up.
It comes with some REALLY neat power browsing features (remove backgroung images, zoom in/out, high contrast colors, to name a few)...thumbs up here.
Has some stupid but really coolr power browsing things...like show everything backwards (like elgooG is to Google)...or upside down...nothing I really need to use, but they are there for fun...thumbs up here.
All the right click menus are the same as IE...as well as have the ones built in from installing programs such as download managers like FlashGet or such, plus the Power Browsing menu...thumbs up here...
It comes with the AOL Desktop Search...I'll probably never use it, but its there for you Desktop Search junkies...
A few things I dont like so far...
I cant seem to get any toolbars set up...
I have my google toolbar (sure I wouldnt expect it to work in the first place), which doesnt show up in the browser.
I cant seem to find anything that would allow me to add toolbars the way IE allows me...allowing me to show my Links toolbar.
The TopSpeed tool (which is some kind of web speed up thing) seems to only be available to AOL users...I tried my AIM SN, but it doesnt seem to work.
The Installer is kinda dumb. its like all AOL downloaders...itll open some flash created crap thing that has to download some temp files which then installs. I would prefer installs to be one big MSI file or something similar, especially by today's standards.
The Settings window is a little slow. It opens fast, but switching between options menus is slow since it blends into the next menu, which on my computer is slow at least.
The settings is quite lackluster as well, having only five lackluster menus:
TopSpeed menu, which only shows if you have TopSpeed on
PopUp blocker Menu, which is the same as Internet Explorer's in terms of look and feel
Desktop Search, which I will never use
Tabbed Browsing, which is pretty lackluster, but standard options are there
And General, which has homepage setting, default browser check, and a link to the Windows Internet Explorer Settings.
But because of all the nicities and the clean, very clean, look i give it 5/5.
Works with IE FavIcons...and has a really neat feature of showing thumbed pictures of the webpage you are on!!! |
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