IE7 Crashes on Forum sites

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As of this morning, IE7 has been constantly crashing whenever I visited Neowin or any other InvisionBoard forum. Since I have Neowin set as my homepage this has become frustrating so now I had to revert to FF2 for the time being. Does this happen to anyone else?

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Is this on vista? I had the same problem but it was fixed by installing the most up to date flash player. Think IE crashes because IE was looking for an addon that wasnt there......... let me know if this helps...............

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there are no addons whatsoever... IE7 is still the same as it was when I first downloaded it. This is Windows XP SP2 TabletPC Edition. This is what happen... I woke up went online to read the news.. i put my laptop into hybernate, get on the bus and go to school, I connect to the schools wireless network (which ive done for 3yrs now) and all of the sudden IE7 crashes. Im now home and its still crashing.

I also did a system restore to saturday... didnt solve anything, I checked the logs... nothin installed or happened in those 20min.

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I think my problem with vista must have been really different problem. What anti-virus program are you using? Have you tried running IE in no add on mode?

I have McAfee Anti-Virus Plus and I disabled addons as well, but that doesnt matter anymore, now Firefox 2 is crashing as well on the same InvisionBoard sites including Neowin... wtf is going on, I scanned for viruses and spyware... even did Windows Live Safety Scanner... nothing, no problems.

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Use Firefox or Opera. IE is garbage. I always see topics everywhere of people having trouble with IE. Not only because of viruses/malware, but due to its in-depth integration with Windows. Usually if something Internet-related is going wrong with IE, it will affect Windows and vise versa. I've been using Opera for more than a year now and before that I used FF for a year or so. Never have any problems infection-wise or stability-wise. Ever. I'd say I don't understand why people still use such a **** browser, but I do and it is very sad.

Also, get rid of the McAfee Anti-Virus, it's very system-heavy on resources. use freeware Avast. Much better. Don't use AVG, it sucks. Low detection rate and horrible GUI.

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Use Firefox or Opera. IE is garbage. I always see topics everywhere of people having trouble with IE. Not only because of viruses/malware, but due to its in-depth integration with Windows. Usually if something Internet-related is going wrong with IE, it will affect Windows and vise versa. I've been using Opera for more than a year now and before that I used FF for a year or so. Never have any problems infection-wise or stability-wise. Ever. I'd say I don't understand why people still use such a **** browser, but I do and it is very sad.

Also, get rid of the McAfee Anti-Virus, it's very system-heavy on resources. use freeware Avast. Much better. Don't use AVG, it sucks. Low detection rate and horrible GUI.

If you read my post above, I said that FF even crashes now... and I am now using Opera. I like Opera but IE7 is a necessity for work and school. Also your perception of McAfee is wrong. I have used Avast and AVG.. they are both crap, infact they claim to remove viruses only to find out when running norton or mcafee that the virus isnt gone. McAfee also is not heavy on resources.. mine uses 12,000kb average compared to AVG's 35,000kb and Avasts 23,000kb.

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I have had the same problem with a number of forums. IE and Firefox both crash for me also. I'm not positive yet but I think I may have fixed it. I ended up having to download the stand alone full install of the newest Adobe Flash player.

You can find it here:

http://www.softwarepatch.com/internet/flash.html

I have no idea why this would work or help forums but it must. Mine were always crashing when I was in the middle of typing a reply.

Let me know if you find another fix because I would be very interested too. :)

Thanks!!

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