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MN is buggering up my internet explorer

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littlelamb · 12/07/2009 20:23

It's running fine in Firefox, but if I try and come on here in Internet Explorer it's fine for about 5 minutes until I try and click on a thread and it just freezes, and I have to shut my PC down. It's been happening for a few days. Is it just me?

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nickytwotimes · 12/07/2009 20:24

Mine does that too.
never use IE now. Firefox is so much better.

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littlelamb · 12/07/2009 20:26

It's only MN that does it though. No other website makes it happen

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CatherineMumsnet · 12/07/2009 21:03

Hi Littlelamb - we'll check with tech in the morning to see why this might be happening for you. Do you have any updates waiting to be installed?

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littlelamb · 12/07/2009 21:07

Not that I know of- I have had no little pop up windows. I may not have splashed out on a new Norton though....

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littlelamb · 12/07/2009 21:07

Though I should say that's been the case for about a year

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CatherineMumsnet · 13/07/2009 10:29

Ok, well keep us posted - we've alerted tech.

KingCanuteIAm · 13/07/2009 10:32

Interesting I thought this was just me! It has been doing it with me for months now. Only MN, it only freezes the window it is in though and I can use task manager to close it down eventually!

purpleflower · 13/07/2009 10:41

I'm getting similar, when I open some threads the thread crashes and my internet is having to recover it. I thought it was because I'm running windows 7 which is a beta.

babyOcho · 13/07/2009 10:42

Which version of IE are you running?

purpleflower · 13/07/2009 10:47

I have not got a clue, Dp sorts all that out

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CatherineMumsnet · 13/07/2009 14:54

We've put this on tech's list, but he may not get to it today, sorry

purpleflower · 16/07/2009 08:00

Just to let you know, my laptop has started doing it on other websites now so it's not mumsnet causing a problem for me

Notalone · 16/07/2009 08:02

God, mine too. DP is absolutely screwing about it as it is his pc. He actually ranted once about banning me from MN. For the love of god do something please before he bans me My life will then be over

whomovedmychocolate · 16/07/2009 08:28

May I suggest you update your Java on IE. This is often the problem because of the banner ads - some smartarse advertisers put in movies etc which muck about with IE unless it's the very latest version.

purpleflower · 16/07/2009 08:40

Thank you WMMC, I will try that. DP had the laptop not long ago installing the windows 7 so he should have done it but he probably forgot

whomovedmychocolate · 16/07/2009 09:08

Open up Internet explorer and find the 'update' bit at the top and install all updates. Then reboot the browser afterwards. You may need to also log out and then into Mumsnet again to kill the cookie for it to work.

BTW Catherine from MN if you are still here - there's a weird thing going on with old threads you are watching that have been deleted. I'm finding them again. Very odd, stuff you've removed has been caching for some reason, but only periodically. So stuff that was really awful is still available to some people. Has tech considered automatically killing cookies after 14 days - this would solve this problem (I think).

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