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I've actually seen this problem in other forums and am hoping others can share some light on how to fix it.

At home I've got a W2KP machine with all the updates and stuff on it. It's as current as it gets. Well sometimes, I'll click on a link and the browser won't do anything. At all. For hours, it'll just sit there with the little IE globe thing spinning away, but nothing.

Meanwhile, I can still ping 4g61t.com. And if I copy the link, and paste it into a new IE process (NOT spawning a window - starting another process altogether), it works fine. So the new process shows the desired page, while the old process just sits there and thinks about stuff.

Is this a known issue with some particular flavor of forum software? Something involving session tracking?

FWIW, I occasionally get similar behavior from ebaymotors.com. If I try to open an auction in a new window (NOT a new process), it'll sit there and think forever. If I start a new process, or click the link to open in the same window as the "parent" window, it works fine.

Is it just me?

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Karl S.
2014 Baby, 2014 House, 2013 Ford Focus ST, 2013 BMW 328i, 1994 Mercedes E320
(Insert passive aggressive signature line here)

Karl isn't very good at the internet.

FWIW, I don't have that problem with this site or ebaymotors. Funny, those are the 2 sites I spend the most time on lately.

So, you guessed it - you're busted.

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Mike Whitney
whit32@gmail.com, 919-454-5445
V10, V8, V8t, I6, I6, V6, F4t, I4, I4, I4, I4, I2, 1, 1

Are you using ie 6 sp1? It has all sorts of funky security and cookie tracking "features" that can break forums. Reset the two security pages to defaults and see what happens.

--Kevin H.

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2003 WRX (again!)

SP1 with all the hotfixes and stuff. This forum breaks both my home computer and my laptop at work within 5 to 10 clicks every time. The browser then never works again until I kill it and restart iexplore.

Posting in one of the rallycross threads required three separate instances of IE running at once. One with the thread, one with my response, and a third to view it with once I was done. Very annoying.

Surely I am not the only one...is there a fix?

EDIT: In fact, it did it again when I posted this very post. My post successfully made it to the board but the browser never did anything. Its little globe thing is still spinning merrily away, taunting me into thinking it might actually work

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Karl S.
2014 Baby, 2014 House, 2013 Ford Focus ST, 2013 BMW 328i, 1994 Mercedes E320
(Insert passive aggressive signature line here)

Is anyone else seeing this? Or do we need to give Karl the laptop that Hoppe tried to bust?

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In need of car.

My home computer has a problem with IE6 locking up on various sites. My problem is that IE6 Windows ME and Macafee Virus scan don't play well together. Microsoft's solution to my lockups is to uninstall my Virus scan software. Yea right. Macafee has updated files that reduce the problem but not a total fix. I am tempted to goto Linux. My laptop running Windows 98 SE does not have the same problem.

Windows has pissed me off since Version 3.0!!!!!!

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George Bright Member # 141
One of the youngest of the old farts.
Yes I voted against you joining the club.

Karl,

Your browser is not out to lunch, it went out for a beer. And as you know, going out for a beer takes time, and when the browser returns, it won't remember what it was doing before it left.

Art