IE6 shutting itself down when looking at the forum
IE6 shutting itself down when looking at the forum
Has anyone else experienced this? It seems to happen randomly. I have a link that goes straight to "New Posts". Haven't had any problem on other sites.
runing all the current updates? also in some cases a virus scanner can block access and crash it out
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cooloothin
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offer a reply that answers his question... 
Fang - i dug deep into my hard drive and fired up IE6 to test your theory but it seemed to work ok for me. I've left the lappy on auto-update for a while, so 4MUFF's note about updates may help if you haven't done so in a bit.
A quick google shows that a lot of vBulletin sites cause IE5 / 6 people issues, but it seems to mainly relate to dodgy plugins that ausubaru doesn't use.
Another suggestion elsewhere was that it could be related to IE's bad understanding of scripting languages could cause it - this install of vBulletin uses a whole swag of javascript. The issue is by no means isolated to vBulletin, all sorts of different sites with a certain unlucky bit of js could do it.
this guy had a problem that sounded slightly different, but somehow i doubt there's anything wrong with the code on this site.
this thread has a swag of info, some of which might do the trick.
My suspicion is javascript, so the thread will help with specifics or it could be solved simply by getting all updates, which might include an update to IE's scripting engine.
Fang - i dug deep into my hard drive and fired up IE6 to test your theory but it seemed to work ok for me. I've left the lappy on auto-update for a while, so 4MUFF's note about updates may help if you haven't done so in a bit.
A quick google shows that a lot of vBulletin sites cause IE5 / 6 people issues, but it seems to mainly relate to dodgy plugins that ausubaru doesn't use.
Another suggestion elsewhere was that it could be related to IE's bad understanding of scripting languages could cause it - this install of vBulletin uses a whole swag of javascript. The issue is by no means isolated to vBulletin, all sorts of different sites with a certain unlucky bit of js could do it.
this guy had a problem that sounded slightly different, but somehow i doubt there's anything wrong with the code on this site.
this thread has a swag of info, some of which might do the trick.
My suspicion is javascript, so the thread will help with specifics or it could be solved simply by getting all updates, which might include an update to IE's scripting engine.
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) I will keep looking into why my machine is doing it - its obviously a local problem to my computer if no one else is having the problem.
hey,since you brought this up....Fang wrote:Thanks for the replies - I am not interested in Firefox - I had it installed for a month and then made short work of it.
Still interested if anyone else has the same problem with IE6.. thanks.
as someone who builds firefox from source code and may even contribute something one day, so noticing your disdain of firefox? so just wondering if you could please explain?
(i have a disdain for ie, where do you want me to start?:mrgreen:)
BTW,if you enable automatic updates, doesn't ie6 get upgraded to ie7? cuz thats what is on my machine and i'm sure it started with ie6, so it upgraded to ie7 on the sly?:twisted: - xp pro svcpk 2
fredsub wrote:hey,since you brought this up....
as someone who builds firefox from source code and may even contribute something one day, so noticing your disdain of firefox? so just wondering if you could please explain?
(i have a disdain for ie, where do you want me to start?:mrgreen:)
BTW,if you enable automatic updates, doesn't ie6 get upgraded to ie7? cuz thats what is on my machine and i'm sure it started with ie6, so it upgraded to ie7 on the sly?:twisted: - xp pro svcpk 2
LOL I don't want to start a browser war - The purpose of my query was to fix a problem that suddenly came up on my PC. I was never interested in changing browsers.
I am a creature of habit and Firefox just didnt do it for me. I disliked IE7 even more. I know half the world loves tabbed browsing - but I do not. I know you can turn it off but there are other reasons I didnt like IE7 (uncustomisable top button layout!!!).
You can block certain updates coming through in the Windows update site. I don't have automatic updates enabled - I like to see whats being installed so I do it manually. It was pretty rude of Microsoft to force IE7 upon everyone like that through updates.
My dislike of other browsers is simply because I am used to doing things a certain way - nothing more. I have to use IE7 every day for work - doesn't mean I have to love it.
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You think???
I installed Opera after reading some website trashing the buggery out of Firefox, and it's apparent failure to work on large numbers of websites....
I am back on Firefox - for the websites I visit, opera failed on many, the only website that firefox doesn't work on for me is http://www.quintrex.com.au and to me that is because their developers don't understand the standards...
Opera also fails on that site, and occasionally IE6!
I do like the speed start page on opera, wish someone would write an add on to do that in ff...
Anyone running FF2 go and get the add on - "Adblock Plus" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865 you'll not regret it
You can individually block any image or flash that loads in a browser, and also load a standard list of known ad servers - no more adds when using the net, and all those ANNOYING avatars that are too big, or too real estatey or NSFW just right click and block!
Which part of that site Ben?Ben wrote:You think???
I am back on Firefox - for the websites I visit, opera failed on many, the only website that firefox doesn't work on for me is www.quintrex.com.au and to me that is because their developers don't understand the standards...
My FF 2.0.0.5 works fine on that site unless there is a specific part that fails to work with FF..........got a link to the part that doesn't work?
P.S. I'm just being curious I'm not out to shoot anybody or any 1 browser.
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