AOL Classic Beta
Posted Dec 10th 2008 9:50AM by Kevin Mayo
Filed under: Announcements, AOL 9.1, Beta News
Hi everyone! We have a new AOL client beta available and we welcome input. We actually beg for input! However, you should know that this one is different from AOL Desktop in that it is based off a "Classic" view. (Read "Classic" as waol.exe style experience.)
Please consider taking a look. Click HERE to start the download process.
Thanks again,
Kevin
The following is taken from: http://beta.aol.com/projects.php?project=aolclassic
The AOL Desktop Client team is pleased to announce the release of AOL Classic Beta.
In this latest beta release of AOL's 9.x family of all-in-one internet software, you'll find a significant new feature - tabbed browsing. We've been asked by many of you to add this, as it really makes web browsing more convenient than ever before.
While this release focuses on adoption of tabbed browsing, we're also performing a fare bit of housecleaning on the menus, with much of this effort to more accurately reflect our current AOL product catalog; along with removing several redundant items.
System requirements for AOL Classic beta
* Windows Vista, XP
* Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
* 166 MHz Pentium-class processor or higher
* 128MB RAM, 460MB free disk space
* 28.8 Kbps or faster modem, or other Internet connection
This will be a short development cycle, so as we're fast approaching the release date, we really encourage you to use the software actively and in this beta, to focus on exercising the tabbed browsing experience. As always, we want you to use the Feedback form to report issues you find.
Since this beta will coexist along side your current AOL client, please make sure you to launch the beta application when testing as much as possible.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1. This is the buggiest piece of software I've seen in awhile.
No web pages will open in a new tab, even though set that way. I've changed it to New Window, that doesn't work either.
Some of this may be Vista related, because I know users on XP that there Favs will open in a New Tab, mine won't on Vista.
I'll beta test this, but will stay with AOL Desktop and AOL 9.1.
Posted at 12:48PM on Dec 10th 2008 by SBSBJB
2. I downloaded the AOL Classic yesterday and I must admit I'm not ready to adopt it yet. I think a lot of the reason is that there's so many things confuzzling about it yet. One thing I very definitely do not like is the way mail is displayed. The sizing is a big turn off as the mail is just too long and hard to get sized right. I much prefer the 'old' e-mail of AOL's. I'll have more to say on this later but just wanted to put up a preliminaty comment first.
Franki
Posted at 4:49PM on Feb 4th 2009 by Franki
3. The very first thing I tried, 'open in new tab' didn't work.
Next, I open an email and I'm annoyed by a very visually distracting ad! ..
I have several 'windows' open and like the old 9.1, I can't find anything that can show me - like internet explorer - what's up and where is it! ..
The best part, it is NOT screwed up like AOL 10.!!
You have work to do..
Bob
Posted at 7:17PM on Dec 31st 2008 by Bob K
4. This new system is much too slow, somewhat confusing and needs to be restarted much too often. I prefer the old plateform.
Mitch
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Hey Mitch,
We're working hard on the next version of AOL Desktop for Mac and almost all of the development is centered around improving the mail experience. Stay tuned!
Thanks...
Lee Givens
AOL Mac Product Lead
Posted at 4:37PM on Jan 19th 2009 by Robert Mitchell
5. hey, i've been trying to download aol desktop 10.1 for like forever cause i'd like to try out the software but for some reason it wont download and i've tried everything i possibly could but nothing, i just don't know what the problem is, it just keeps saying, preparing to download your aol software but nothing ever happens, is it because of vista cause i run vista home edition on my computer but it says its compatible with vista so what could the problem be, anyone else having these issues that can help me out here, it would be gladly appreciated
Posted at 7:58PM on Jan 29th 2009 by brenfayew
6. I was all set to like 10.1 until I discovered that there is no way to turn off that annoying greeting voice.
What genius decided that?
Well, whomever he or she is, please pass on that I am immediately abandoning 10.1.
Posted at 1:12AM on Mar 6th 2009 by D. KING