Win98se and IE6

[ALICE]

I've been using IE5.5 (google as home page) with my Win98
with no problems. I upgraded to IE6 recently. When I open
AOL and switch to IE6, the white screen opens and then it
states in bottom left "Website found, waiting for reply."
I have to close and reopen IE6 several times before I
actually get the Google screen to open. Why is it now
taking so long for IE6 for open in Google.
Can anyone tell us how we can get Google to open as
quickly as it did when we had IE5.5? Thank you.

(I use AdAware, Norton Antivirus 2004 and Norton Firewall
2004. I added google to the Norton Firewall 2004 in the
Privacy Control/Advanced. I checked allow cookies.)

 

[Richard Goh]

Have you asked AOL? Remember AOL, not IE controls your access.
What version of AOL do you use?

 

[ALICE]

There is a little IE icon at bottom of page (status bar)
which I have always clicked on and that opened IE5.5
immediately. I am almost positive that AOL (6) does not
control this. I think it might have something to do with
the new IE6 (settings, etc.) I loaded (upgrading from
IE5.5).
Sometimes, if I click 'Refresh' button several times, the
IE6 will open with Google as my home page (which I want).