As everyone knows, AOL's browser is horrible! It is (finally) based on gecko, but they tweak it and make it unstable (not to mention that if AOL goes down, so does your browser). I do still have an AOL account and I wanted to make AOL open an external browser insted of its own. here's what I found:
Using your favorite text editor, open prefs.js in /Users -> userName -> Library -> Preferences -> America Online -> Profiles -> screenName -> randomString.slt, and add this line:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.http", true);
To also make AOL open any email links in Mail.app (or your default email program), you can also add:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto", true);
This works for any protocol which the embedded gecko would normally handle. So change the http to https or ftp or whatever you can think of, and it'll make AOL more usable. Warning: This does bad things if you get lots of HTML mail within AOL; I haven't figured that one out yet...
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