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Yesterday morning I lost a fairly carefully prepared collection of web-sites that I was visiting using tabbed-browsing. I chose to right-click and open a URL in a new window…boom, IE disappears completely. Now, this morning, it did the same…except I had a page full of text in a fresh blog posting…gone. I’m too tired to recreate it now, but will do so later on today – you’re not missing much, just me muttering on about a blog re-vamp and how cool WordPress widgets are.
Windows XP Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
Internet Explorer Version 7.0.5730.11
Note-to-self: press ‘save and continue editing’ quickly and more frequently (at least until the move to Vista is complete).
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I am willing to bet money you have a dodgy add-in. Unload them all and you’ll find no more crashing. Then you can go one by one to identify the culprit 😉
Been there done that and so have a couple of other people we know…
Cash money? Good point – I\’ll unload all of the \’extra\’ ones and see. That said, there are only a handful there…SnagIt, Acrobat, MyWay (suspect that this could be the culprit, Real, and Sonic DLA. Will report back – the trouble is of course, the fact that it doesn\’t happen on-demand, so don\’t sit on the edge of your chair waiting for me! Thanks.
Let me start by saying that my first impressions of IE7 was very favourable, but alas that didn’t last long.
I’m betting that even when you have unloaded all your addins, IE7 will still crash and do all kinds of weird stuff. Maybe not as often but it will still happen. That would be my experience of it. No addins …. still crashing and hanging.
I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled it so many times to fix problems that I’ve now lost count.
I got so sick of watching the “Connecting” word on the tab, as it attempts to load a page that other browsers do in seconds! It also sucks that the page freezes while it loads the next page, thereby stopping you clicking on another link or stopping the page load.
I’ve now made the move over to using Opera (which is far faster) and Firefox (which amazingly is also faster).
As for the phishing filter…. well it ain’t worth the 100 year lag in loading a webpage!!!
I’m hopeful that MS will fix most of these issues over the next year, at which time I’ll probably try it again.
I’ve started to use IE7 again after finding the biometric (fingerprint) software from Toshiba was causing problems. An update was available to fix the issue of page freezing.
Avoiding any kind of addin is the way to go! Acrobat Reader is definitely troublesome so turn it off:
http://www.roundtripsolutions.com/blog/2006/12/20/194/ie7-and-acrobat-reader-plugin-issue/
However, Opera and Firefox are still far faster at rendering webpages and I will still fall back to them when some pages seem to have problems rendering or loading on IE7.
IE7 isn’t the main culrpit here, but it is part of the problem… please fix it Microsoft ;-).