View Full Version : PPRUNE crashing IE6
IO540
13th Jan 2008, 17:06
I keep getting this and it's helluva irritating.
Almost no other website does it.
So I regularly do select-all and control-c to save it in case it goes, but just now even the clipboard has been lost.
I have in the past been advised to disable HTTP1.1 or something like that but it makes no difference.
It pups up that box saying whether I sent to send a report to M$
amanoffewwords
13th Jan 2008, 17:08
Upgrade to 7 perhaps?
IO540
13th Jan 2008, 17:11
Can't under win2000.
One more piece of data: it happens only after a while; say 1 minute. I think it is caused by some advertising feed, perhaps containing a duff flash data stream which crashes the macromedia flash player, in this particular version of win2000+ie6?
west lakes
13th Jan 2008, 17:18
Had this twice recently with IE7 on XP.
Error message refers to a problem with Active X
IO540
13th Jan 2008, 17:38
I am pretty certain it is one of the advertising feeds - because it happens only after a long while with the browser being static, no keyboard activity. All that changes are the adverts....
Can I disable active-x for pprune.org only?
Fly-by-Wife
13th Jan 2008, 18:06
Dunno about win2000, but I have never had any such problem with PPRuNe, running IE6 on XP.
Maybe installing XP is the answer to your problem? After all, win2000 is now 8 years old! Even MS must be close to abandoning it by now.
FBW
BEagle
13th Jan 2008, 18:34
XP SP2 + IE6 + PPRuNe = :)
Vista? No idea.
IE7? No thanks!!
green granite
13th Jan 2008, 19:34
Will not Firefox work with 2000?
frostbite
13th Jan 2008, 19:51
Opera + XP SP2, no problems. (so far)
west lakes
13th Jan 2008, 20:17
AS with BEagle I had no probs with that configuation, the works puter is the same so no probs. I've blocked pop ups via google and it's run all day with no probs. It was occuring when I had set pop-ups Ok
IO540
13th Jan 2008, 21:15
I have too many apps installed on this PC. No way to install XP without losing everything.
The last M$ O/S which could be upgraded (TMK) while keeping applications was Win3.x to NT4 - that carried forward win.ini and any registry stuff. After NT4, application config did not get carried forward. I believe there were some hacks... but many apps even have a different installation for XP.
I think one needs IE7 to block popups, no?
The problem with globally blocking popups is that many websites stop working.
frostbite
13th Jan 2008, 21:27
You need Firefox or Opera to stop popups.
130.4
16th Jan 2008, 16:17
This sounds like a recently discovered fault with a recent security update:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=946627
I had this problem myself (with other sites too) and the above fixed it. In fact, the fix was included in one of the automatic updates.
I updated from Win2K to XP, and it carried over my settings with no problems. That was a few years ago, though.
IE isn't allowed on my machines. It's XP SP2 and Firefox 3, or Linux and Firefox 2.0.0.11. Pop-ups and scripts are blocked except by specific permission.
Opera on the XDA.