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  1. cefsharp.browsersubprocess.exe

    Long-time customer. I was just calling about the CefSharp.BrowserSubprocess.exe. After about 3-4 minutes of trying to blame me for the problem, she literally hung up on me when I was asking a question. I pay for your service. Hanging up is unacceptable.

    My anti-virus keeps blocking this program. Why can't you do something about it.

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    0 comments  ·  Browser  ·  Admin →

    We sincerely apologize for this experience with our customer service. Please call 703-265-5070 and someone will be happy to help you.

    As for the cefsharp.browsesubprocess.exe concern, this process is the browser process within AOL Desktop that allows the connection to the internet. Each window/feature within AOL Desktop Gold that connects to the internet uses one of these processes for the connection to the internet. As you close windows you will see that these processes exit.

    Please be sure to add cefsharp.browsesubprocess.exe to your anti-virus software allow list to avoid any frustrations with connecting to the internet.

  2. So now getting rid of my portfolio THEE only reason I decided to pay the $5.00 a month to keep this site.

    So now also getting rid of my portfolio-THEE only reason I decided to pay the $5.00 a month to keep this joke of a site. The ads, pop ups, dead or incorrect links, so called articles a year old, etc, etc, etc. So now another customer lost. I believe Verizon is actually trying to close up AOL for tax reasons.

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  3. Hate this "new" way of providing feedback -- your upgrade ****

    Unable to drag & drop from Favorites into the signature (i.e. Follow me on Twitter - with link already attached). Adding pictures used to be simple - now I have to search for and then copy/paste from another area. AND, after painstakingly creating a signature, and using it many times . . . TODAY, one signature disappeared to be the signature from another saved signature. NOT HAPPY Trying to WORK here!

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    Let me put you in touch with one of our technicians to check if they can help you out. Please call the AOL Desktop Gold team at 1-888-265-3733

  4. Can't sign on securely - says your security certificate is out of date

    Trying to sign in on my laptop says "This Connection is Untrusted - You asked to connect securely to api.login.aol.com. but we can't confirm that the connection is secure due to a problem with the websites security certificate (Cert Date Invalid) Such problems may indicate an attempt to steal your information.

    What now???

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  5. Allow floating windows

    The browser is trying to be more than it is by masking itself as a separate desktop. Don't do this, use modules and instances instead. Have a main browser and when you click an item have it open a new module for that app that can float and be moved wherever on the screen, do not constrain only to the browser window.

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  6. I'm ready to leave AOL because of the violent and disgusting videos that appear next to all of my emails and mailbox.

    SO sick of toenail fungus, ***** on dog's teeth, dying people in bed with smoke coming out of their mouths, and young women violently attacking each other. If you don't stop these HORRIBLE videos, I will leave AOL. I don't mind ads, but stop trying to make us sick. It is obscene and abusive to your customers.

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  7. I HATE the new Gold.

    What were you thinking. My favorites all gone! Why? Emails constantly coming up in bottom right corner when I'm trying to do something else. I do NOT need this! I know how to check my email. When I want to permanently delete I used to be able to "select all" and do them all at once. Now, one at a time? This whole new Gold is terrible! If it wasn't broke, why fix it???

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  8. AOL must not like Outlook. Before you could copy a outlook file and post it the body of the email. Now AOL shuts down.

    I use Outlook as my Contact and Calendar. When copying an Outlook contact and trying to paste to the body of the email to send out, AOL rudely shuts down. been going on since Gold was established. Before Gold it worked fine. Have complained about this in the past, but no response and consideration.
    I have agreed to the Terms of service as it only applies to this concern above.

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    Responded  ·  Product Support responded

    Please send us a crash report in order for our engineers to look into the issue you are experiencing with the software closing unexpectedly. To do that, please follow these steps:

    1. Open AOL Desktop Gold.
    2. Click on Help on the top right, and select Report a Bug from the drop-down menu.
    3. Type a short description of the problem, and click Send.

    For immediate assistance with this issue, please call us at 1-888-265-3733.

  9. Replace or Improve Desktop Gold

    I just got off the phone with Tech Support, and they had to uninstall and then reinstall your HORRIBLE Desktop Gold platform once again since it would freeze up and stop working after I was using it after a few hours every single time. What a waste of my time, and it costs AOL lots of money having their tech support team deal with the endless problems with the platform that its users encounter.

    Desktop Gold is hated by everyone, and is the worst platform that AOL has over had, yet you refuse to improve it, or better yet, replace…

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  10. favorites

    it would be nice when saving to favorites to be able to name it as we want or go ahead and save it by default. there are a lot of times i don't know what name it put on it in the favorites and hard to find if you dont hit the correct word in the search block when trying to find it. just give us the option to name it or default.

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    Responded  ·  Product Support responded

    When you add a site to favorites there are 2 fields that must be completed. The first asks for the name you want the favorite to have and the other one holds the link. If you didn’t name a bookmark you can click on edit and rename it.

    Major websites will automatically use the default name (Ex: www.google.com = Google)

  11. Da??ed ads!

    Just trying to read about Air Force One and a blasted video ad keeps flopping in the lower right corner. It is so distracting for me that I just quit reading. Oh, yeah, I know that they're so cutsy but they are very annoying. I don't watch the dam things, and I don't get the story read that I wanted. Nice going. It's a two time loser.

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  12. n companies continue to make changes that I, as a customer have

    I have had AOL since 1999. When things work, I generally keep them, but when a company continues to make changes without notifying me, and make changes that make more work to do the same thing, I begin to think that perhaps it's time to make a change. Almost every one of my friends and acquaintances who had AOL have left for these same reasons. As a paying customer/user, I do not want to spend hours trying to make things work because you all decided you had a better idea....ugh. We're NOT all IT people, nor do we want…

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  13. Your outsource tech support is extending their on line time

    I've had 3 recent experiences with your outsource "tech support". They tend to jump into diagnostics without checking the basics. My last experience was a question about an outage which impacted all three computers at this site. Rather than checking for info to a possible outage he started diagnostics on my maching (rather carelessly) had to stop him because my wife had the same experience the prior week and lost all her contacts and calendar because the tech didn't save anything first as a caution. There was about 7 years and about 12000 various contacts (email/phone/and person data for…

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  14. Search line

    After fixing the search (subject) line so that it could be used to find the last page being read if something happened to that page, it seems that you have changed it. Today the page I was reading suddenly disappeared, but it wasn't on the subject line, so I couldn't get it back.. Are you going backward instead of trying to bring the Gold Aol up to the quality of the previous version?

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    I’d like to have one of our Technical Support agents investigate this. Please call our AOL Desktop Gold team at 1-888-265-3733. Our experts are available 24/7 by phone.

  15. I can't do it any more!

    I was TRYING to read BuzzFeed, and behold those fu--ing videos kept invading the screen on the lower left. Is that really necessary? I "X" it out, and the **** things keep coming back. I am NOT going to put up with it. I'll just forego reading the rest of the material. AOL has gone to **** in a handbasket the last few years. Maybe it is time to find a new provider.

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    Let me put you in touch with one of our Technical Support Agents to help you with this. Please call at 1-888-265-3733. Our team is available 24/7 by phone.

  16. PLEASE stop inappropriate merging of feedback

    I provided feedback earlier today on an issue with "Check for Updates", and it was inappropriately merged with another post which was also related to "Check for updates" but not the same issue. My feedback was merged without recourse to a closed feedback item, so that I couldn't even point out that the two matters were not the same!!! I understand that merging may be appropriate, but it isn't when the only relationship may be a couple of keywords.

    This feedback isn't a rant, but an attempt to preserve the value of feedback. I've been an AOL user since its…

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  17. I gave up

    I was TRYING to read the material on Startrek, but the damned video ads kept planing. At one time before I quit, there was in ad playing in opposite corners. I know that those damned things care, cutsy, glitsy, clever, awesome, fantastic and wonderful, but the friggin things are obnoxious, distracting, and foolish. Does anyone there ever pay attention to what you are doing?

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  18. THE FINAL STRAW !!!!

    the new policy agreement that all users will be forced to sign is just another slap in the face for all loyal AOL paid subscribers - after 20 years of paying i + all my family member will be cutting all ties with AOL , Yahoo , + Verizon - totally biased , inaccurate , + unreliable companies trying to control users - as if the Gold ongoing problems are not enough !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - VERY FRUSTRATING -

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  19. Resolve locator issue for items in our favorites

    I attempted to find a location of a dentist from one of my favorite program and was inform that I had to enable the site for my location. Now I never had to do this when using this favorite site before. For some odd reason AOL Gold no longer supports this favorite site locating program, whihc I used with no problem in Jan of this year. The person trying to help did a great job trying to resolve this issue, but his higher up Tech's can't even resolve it but can only send me to another browser. The…

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  20. I HATE the new Gold.

    What were you thinking. My favorites all gone! Why? Emails constantly coming up in bottom right corner when I'm trying to do something else. I do NOT need this! I know how to check my email. When I want to permanently delete I used to be able to "select all" and do them all at once. Now, one at a time? This whole new Gold is terrible! If it wasn't broke, why fix it??? Oh and why did you get rid of the backgrounds for stationary?

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    Responded  ·  Product Support responded

    I will send your feedback over to the AOL Gold desktop team, making sure the features you mentioned become a priority and will be added in the future releases. Currently we don’t have an estimated time frame, but we hope the majority of the features our members are asking for will be implemented soon.

    To import the favorites from the old software into AOL Desktop Gold. Please follow the steps in the help article below.

    https://help.aol.com/articles/aol-desktop-importing-your-personal-information

    To delete all the emails at a time press Ctrl + A and then click on Delete. You can also delete 2 or more emails by pressing Ctrl + Left mouse button.

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