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Member since February 9, 2005

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    Paul Evans

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  1. Review - AOL Explorer

    Build 0.86 (Feb 9, 2005)

    This does appear to be a little faster than standard IExplorer. As an AOL subscriber, I have been using alternative browsers, and email clients, avoiding their bundled all-in-one AOL 9.0 or equivalent.

    This answers a lot of probs, to use a separate browser but still be able to use AOL services.

    Links can be added to the top bar, by moving or adding bookmarks to the AOL Browser folder in Favourites.

    Did this installer include Spyware? My Microsoft Spyware Beta didn't approve of some of the included files, but then the Microsoft Spyware Beta dislikes anything that tweaks Internet Explorer in any way.

    Top Speed works by keeping a cache of visited pages, and pre-loads some links from pages. To turn on Top Speed, the AOL Browser asks to Sign On to AOL.

    It would be great if the AOL Browser automatically signs the user on to AOL, using the screen name. A bit awkward to have to turn on Top Speed as a separate action.

    To access AOL content Channels is now very simple, using the icons to the left of the main browsing pane. Radio@aol can be accessed using AOL Browser, which was not possible with other browsers other than the full AOL program, or AOL Communicator. This is great news.

    Also as an AOL user, using AOL Games is now greatly improved, with auto-signing in to it's vast selections.

    I do like this browser.

    An option to import from other browsers would be a nice option. I have used Opera, and Firefox for a while and have had to manually copy and paste favourites.

    A small bug - The option to open multiple pages on Startup doesn't appear to be active, following the Help Guide.

    Worth a try, if an existing AOL subscriber.
    Use this as a browser, and an alternative email client such as Incredimail (AOL's IMAP servers can now be used with other Mail clients).

  2. Comment - MSN Fights Messenger Outages

    Build 0.86 (Feb 9, 2005 - 7:50 AM)

    When will this be a Public Release?

    I couldn't access Messenger last night either. Was nice to be out of contact for a while!

    This user is currently Away or Offline.

  3. Comment - AOL Opens Browser, PC Search Beta

    Build 0.86 (Feb 9, 2005 - 7:20 AM)

    To the left of the main browser pane are the AOL Channels. So now you can access News, Games and use the Radio@aol a lot easier than with standard AOL or I Explorer.

    One issue - at the same time as installing this browser, MSN Messenger was having problems (see separate article), and I suddenly had a bundle of spyware, and a couple of files had viruses detected. I was left unsure if these were related to MSN or AOL

    Paul.