thank you joan and everyone who had advice to give. i'll be switching over to firefox rather than upgrading to msie 8. i should have done a long time ago but always had the feeling that firefox didn't always want to play nice with aol. you've given me the encouraging words to switch with confidence now! thanks again! julee In a message dated 1/1/2010 11:26:27 A.M. Central Standard Time, aolers-rootsweb-request@rootsweb.com writes: From: JYoung6180@aol.com To: aolers-rootsweb@rootsweb.com Sent: Fri, Jan 1, 2010 2:21 am Subject: Re: [AOL-RW] MSIE 8 and AOL problems Julee- I got that message once when using the AOL IE 7 browser on Facebook and just clicked to close it and haven't seen it since. BUT...I don't find that Facebook and its apps run well with IE. I mostly use Firefox for those sites--plus it is a more secure browser. It's free--so you can download it and use it regardless of whether you use AOL's IE browser elsewhere. Joan