Mac Forum / Applications / Internet Explorer / May 2008

When I attempt to open IE 7.0 on a Windows XP SP2 machine the IE 7.0 window
opens but it continues to display "connecting" in the browser tab.  The
content for the website never populates or loads.  I have disabled most if
not all security add-ons related to AVG 8.0 and SpyBot ...

This morning the status bar began disappearing (rolling up) and now I can't
see my Windows Desktop Taskbar at the bottom of the screen (whether it's
locked or not) when I move the cursor to the bottom of the screen.  I have to
minimize IE, as it covers the Taskbar, in order to ...

Installation suggestion:  Percent progress bar (following custom in the
industry).
When I downloaded IE 7.0 today, the downloading was replete with timing
information.

On power up off desktop pc running extremely slow. Using Process Explorer I
can see two sessions of internet explorer are open, one of which is using all
the procesing power. If I kill both of these the pc works ok, although
occassionally they reopen. In which case I can kill ...

error Microsoft Visual c++ Runtime Library, Program C:\explorer.exe
Buffer overrun detected.
What is this? and what can I do about it?
Please help

It doesn't appear that IE supports FTP over SSL. Am I missing something? Or
is there a 3rd party plug-in that I can install to allow FTPS in IE? My goal
is to avoid installing a 3rd party app on a client machine to do FTPS. Any
help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

On opening Program Updates I get a screen titled Update Manager and an IE
script error message which reads:
Line  159
Char  4

Is this a known issue with IE6.0? If so, is there a patch or workaround
at  (resource://org/apache/cocoon/forms/flow/javascript/Form.js, Line 144):
java.lang.IllegalStateException: SubmitWidget can only be set once.
Thank you

when i type, on some keystrokes when i use the shift button it will pull a
drop down menu- the one where you can choose copy, paste etc.  i have no idea
why.  it just started doing it one day.
also, now, after i took the pc in to be looked at and they did

Microsoft seriously needs to keep making IE for Mac. Just because we have
Safari, doesn't mean we don't want IE!

When I shut down IE7 it will often take about 5 minutes to close during which
time there is major disk activity.  On other occasions it will close
immediately but will leave an iexplore.exe listed in processes.  Can anyone
explain this and suggest a resolution please?

Hi Group,
I am going a Query in Excel 2003, using IE7, in Windows XP. Things go along
just fine, up to a point. There are about 60 queries and they are working
fine up to a point, then I get a failure message is: