Internet Explorer problems

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Dec 31 2003, 5:59 pm
I am having problems surfing the web, Whenever a pop-up ad or window occurs on a site my explorer crashs. I have an up to date version of Explorer and am using windows XP. Anyone know of what might be causing this?
Dec 31 2003, 6:13 pm
Aha, I know the problem: you're not using this! =P

Heh. Seriously though... I have no idea why it's happening, but you might want to get a popup blocker. There are some around for IE, or you can get Mozilla Firebird (link above) and use its built-in popup blocker (as well as all it's other nifty features).
Dec 31 2003, 6:29 pm
In response to Crispy
I am aware of Mozilla, and personally do not like it =-\, Problem is I have a pop-up blocker.. but some of the pop-ups like Polls and such is somthing I like to use..

Although I will try to adjust to Mozilla, Thanks Cripsy :P

~Jake

EDIT: OUCH IE doesn't want me downloading Mozilla, explorer crashed because it had a pop-up :P *turns pop-up blocker on*
Dec 31 2003, 6:55 pm
In response to Texter
Texter wrote:
I am aware of Mozilla, and personally do not like it =-\, Problem is I have a pop-up blocker.. but some of the pop-ups like Polls and such is somthing I like to use..

Although I will try to adjust to Mozilla, Thanks Cripsy :P

Firebird is nice. If you don't like it, well, that's your choice; but IE is an inferior browser in my opinion. =) Keep in mind you can customise it a fair bit with themes and extensions and manual editing of the configuration files; check out the Tips and Tricks section on the website, it's very useful. It's even got information on how to implement blocking of pretty much any ad, which I like. =)

EDIT: OUCH IE doesn't want me downloading Mozilla, explorer crashed because it had a pop-up :P *turns pop-up blocker on*

LOL!
Dec 31 2003, 7:05 pm
In response to Texter
I recommend figuring out what the actual problem was, even if you do end up using Mozilla perminantly.
Dec 31 2003, 7:13 pm
In response to DarkView
Yeah, that's probably a good idea. =) A thorough Google search might turn something up.
Jan 1 2004, 6:30 am
In response to Crispy
Crispy wrote:
Texter wrote:
EDIT: OUCH IE doesn't want me downloading Mozilla, explorer crashed because it had a pop-up :P *turns pop-up blocker on*

LOL!

Well, it's microsoft. Why would they want you to have anything to do with open source? Whenever I try accessing a linux ftp site, IE freezes for a few minutes(probably does that with any ftp site though). Windows also refuses to even re-format any disks that Linux has formatted so that I had to get more floppy disks so I could install Linux. :)
Jan 2 2004, 5:32 pm
In response to Jon88
Strange thing, I've never had any problems with my installation of Windows hating Linux. Except when the Windows install overwrote the boot sector so I couldn't boot Linux, but I knew that was going to happen. =)