Stop using AOL’s web browser!
Hi,
Over the years, I’ve found that every time that I come across the AOL browser … trouble starts.
Just today, someone was having problems watching Flash FLV based videos, where the videos would just stop half way through for no apparent reasons.
As it turned out, it was the AOL browser (a modified version of IE, so I’m told) that was screwing up. As soon as he switched to Firefox, everything worked fine.
The AOL browser isn’t the only bad actor – many micro-niche browsers are often times the source of strange problems that you don’t get using the major browsers out there. So do yourself a favor, stick to Firefox or IE.
… And keep up to date, they are free after all.
Ciao,
Stefan Mischook
August 16th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
I’ve been designing websites for 10 years now, and I’ve been screaming your tagline for years–only slightly modified. “Stop using Microsoft’s web browser!”
Whether it’s trying to get CSS properties displayed the same cross browser, or working with a mapping api, IE always seems to be the bane of my existence.
Maybe we can change the tagline to “Stop using a poor excuse for a browser!” That will cover IE, AOL, and others that have programmers like myself spending countless hours chasing IE rendering bugs.
Okay, hopping off my soapbox.
Mike
August 31st, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Speaking of AOL Browser and soap box, we too recently had problems in quad or meetatquad, (not sure of rules here didn’t type website out). We told users to use any browser or firefox or IE7. Anyway we setup a new computer to get to the bottom of this, EVEN WITH aol not running ( we thought) there was still 13 programs running in the background.
Summation, Summary, Recap: New computers are not used by all. Aol kills computers with old memory and ATA and SATA I hard drives. Especially aol browser VR or AOL 9.1
Thanks for your time OH and this website.
Respectfully, Cordial Sinc etc. areva dirch
– versi