[WEB4LIB] AOL browser question

[Kathy P. Wheeler]

I don't know if that's true or not, but when I installed AOL 5.0 on my 
machine (which already had IE 5 and Netscape 4.6), my IE 5.0 suddenly had 
an AOL icon in the top right corner instead of the usual IE icon. And in 
the title line, there is now a message that says "Microsoft Internet 
Explorer provided by America Online." This same thing happened to my 
Outlook Express. And it didn't go away when I uninstalled AOL.

Kathy Wheeler                    e-mail: kwheeler at jaguar1.usouthal.edu
Electronic Services Librarian    
University Library
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL  36688
homepage: http://library.southalabama.edu

On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, David Merchant wrote:

> Don't know if anyone can answer this, but I noticed something when putting 
> the same AOL 4.0 on two different computers: the AOL browser seemed to be 
> different between the two.  One had IE 3.0 already installed, and the 
> second had IE 4.01 already installed before installing AOL 4.0.  It seems 
> that when you install AOL 4.0, if you already have IE on your machine, it 
> doesn't install a browser but uses, in essence, the one you already have 
> (though altered when it appears in AOL).  I noticed this when testing a web 
> page, and noted that the web page differences (in color support and other 
> tag supported) between the AOL 4.0 on one machine and the AOL 4.0 on the 
> other machine exactly matched the differences with how that page looked on 
> IE 3.0 and IE 4.0.  Can any confirm, deny, explain this to me?
> 
> TTFN,
> David
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