 Internet Explorer Problem, yeah it is kinda odd |
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  Feb 23 2005, 08:27 PM
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Sinthetik kreatoR  Group: Members Posts: 907 Joined: 31-August 04 From: CA, USA Member No.: 968  |
Well this only seems to happen when I am answering Livejournal replies via my email but this is what goes on.
I reply and it posts the reply but in a seperate IE window. All of a sudden tons and tons of them open up and the only way I can shut them down is by ending the prog manually. Does anyone else know why this happens? |
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Feb 23 2005, 08:50 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 386 Joined: 10-August 04 From: United States Member No.: 761 |
ewww IE.
Have you got your windows up to date? That might help it out |
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Feb 24 2005, 01:16 AM
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Newbie [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 28 Joined: 24-February 05 Member No.: 3,947 |
IE doesn't have a problem, it is the problem. Get Mozilla Firefox and bring your browser into the 21st century.
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Feb 24 2005, 01:24 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 287 Joined: 23-February 05 Member No.: 3,945 |
IE has no popup blockers, today the internet is filled with iframes, and other popups, I agree, Mozilla Firefox is a good program, it has internal popup blockers, you can find the completely free download somwhere on this site. www.mozilla.org. Also if you have Notrton's Internet Security, it has a weak popup blocker, that might slightly reduce the number of popups.
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Feb 24 2005, 03:44 AM
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Gryp-ed Group: Members Posts: 215 Joined: 14-February 05 From: Dubai, UAE Member No.: 3,756 |
Another thing that could be possible is that your Explorer got hijacked by a virus/spyware/adware etc. Try downloading Microsoft's free spyware removal tool (available at Microsoft.com. If that doesn't help I'd advice you to have a system scan through either McAfee or PC-Cilin. Norton has never seemed to have worked for me and in fact slows down my computer like hell.
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Feb 24 2005, 03:48 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 209 Joined: 9-October 04 Member No.: 1,574 |
i dont know how to fix your problem so id have to say get Mozilla Firefox
 its my favorite browser.
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Feb 24 2005, 03:52 AM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 372 Joined: 14-October 04 Member No.: 1,736 |
It's not a pop-up, and it's not caused by spyware. It's some sort of bug in IE (or Windows XP). It's happened on most XP's with IE 6 that I've been on. Usually, the only way to end it is through the task manager. Even then, it may still lock up your computer. That usually happens to me when I try to close IE. That's part of the reason I switched to Firefox. I don't know why it happens, though. It would probably help if you switch to a better browser.
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Feb 24 2005, 07:14 AM
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Newbie [Level 3] Group: Members Posts: 47 Joined: 26-December 04 From: mdeo.uy | theBestCityOfTheWorld | dontCome Member No.: 2,956 |
switching to Firefox may be an easy solution for you, but i have WinMe and this f*cking OS freezes when i'm running Firefox!
if it's because of popups, i'd recommend you to download Google's toolbar, which doesn't block every popup but 90% of them. if it's a bug, update yuor browser ([URL=http://microsoft.com]Microsoft[/URL} makes security patches very often, because they've got lots of bugs) or switch to another browser (Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, or Safari, for OS X). |
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Feb 24 2005, 08:35 AM
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Yeah, this is funky enough. Group: Members Posts: 194 Joined: 30-July 04 From: Lebanon Member No.: 293 |
a few of my friends have Livejournals and refuse to stay away from IE, i fixed this problem by installing that google toolbar.. it blocks popups, and makes LJ work right for the most part.
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