Anyone experiencing trouble with IE7 ?

singist · 6 Feb 2009 at 09:42

Running Vista Ultimate SP1 and IE7 on an old FX53 cpu machine @ 2.4ghz.

Mostly ok but IE keeps either taking ages to swap pages or locking up altogether anyone else suffering? any ideas?

MadMatty · 6 Feb 2009 at 12:59

Yes ie7 become anoying and freezes up often. IE8 has that issue fixed here.

crazybones · 7 Feb 2009 at 06:06

It sounds like you are experiencing the known Flash Player 10 issue:

www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/for...d=44&catid=184&threadid=1401765&enterthread=y

Try disabling FP10 to see if it solves your problem. If so, you may need to revert to FP9 pending a fix from Adobe.

Bane · 7 Feb 2009 at 10:43

I was having problems trying to favourite pages yesterday. So copied links to notepad, closed all tabs and restarted. Problem returned after a while.

ShakenNstirred · 7 Feb 2009 at 11:26

singist said:
Running Vista Ultimate SP1 and IE7 on an old FX53 cpu machine @ 2.4ghz.

Mostly ok but IE keeps either taking ages to swap pages or locking up altogether anyone else suffering? any ideas?

its been doing this here for about 2 months now, my have been an update thats the problem, i dont know

MadMatty said:
Yes ie7 become anoying and freezes up often. IE8 has that issue fixed here.

IE8 still doing it here

Adam_D200 · 7 Feb 2009 at 13:35

I'm getting this on my main pc and laptop too, reckon it was a auto update for something thats messed it up

very annoying!

bledd · 7 Feb 2009 at 13:42

sounds like you're using IE..

switch to Firefox, and install ablock plus, then choose 'easylist' subscription

for fast & clean browsing

thevet · 7 Feb 2009 at 14:25

re

i have not used IE for years,i use opera

NathanE · 7 Feb 2009 at 14:30

Yes I have been having this too and it is caused by Flash Player 10. Something which Youtube forced me to install a month or two ago.

It would appear that Adobe have fallen out with Microsoft to such an extent that they have now started introducing serious bugs into their IE add-on and coordinating their efforts with Google-owned Youtube in order to alienate users of IE and cause them to seek alternative web browsers.

ShakenNstirred · 7 Feb 2009 at 14:51

i have gone back to Flash Player 9 and so far IE hasn't played up

don't like FF so thats not an option

mmj_uk · 7 Feb 2009 at 16:59

Try disabling hardware acceleration in Flash 10 settings.

Dougsnake · 7 Feb 2009 at 17:55

had same issue with ie7 for months so swapped to ie8 beta 2 and its still the same

.........

ShakenNstirred · 7 Feb 2009 at 23:11

Dougsnake said:
had same issue with ie7 for months so swapped to ie8 beta 2 and its still the same .........

since going back to Flash Player 9 IE8 is fine

bledd · 8 Feb 2009 at 10:56

bledd. said:
sounds like you're using IE..

switch to Firefox, and install ablock plus, then choose 'easylist' subscription

for fast & clean browsing

quoted for truth

scooby555t · 8 Feb 2009 at 11:38

firefox ***

tolien · 8 Feb 2009 at 11:41

NathanE said:
It would appear that Adobe have fallen out with Microsoft to such an extent that they have now started introducing serious bugs into their IE add-on and coordinating their efforts with Google-owned Youtube in order to alienate users of IE and cause them to seek alternative web browsers.

Given how utterly dire the nsPlugin version of Flash is and has been for years (not to mention IE's market share), that's heading for tinfoil hat territory.

NathanE · 8 Feb 2009 at 16:05

I know. I was just throwing the idea out there really...

It just seems amazing that Flash 10 has been out since what September 2008? And Adobe still haven't fixed glaring stability issues with it when running in IE7/8. What is more amazing is that none of the tech media press seems to have picked up this highly controversial story. I suppose they don't care or haven't noticed because I doubt people like The Register, Inquirer or CNET etc use IE anymore.

tolien · 8 Feb 2009 at 17:15

Flash 9 was about for years and Adobe hadn't fixed the glaring stability and performance issues with it either

If they don't use IE any more, they're probably used to it being dire

NathanE · 8 Feb 2009 at 18:07

I never had any major problems like this with Flash 9.

Microsoft need to improve their sandboxing of third party plug-ins. That is quite clear. I hope they fit this in for the IE8 RTM.

It really needs to come up with some sort of dialog along the lines of "Adobe Flash 10 has malfunctioned and this tab has been closed". Otherwise people are blindly just going to assume that it is IE that is crashing rather than the Flash plug-in.

tolien · 8 Feb 2009 at 18:58

NathanE said:
I never had any major problems like this with Flash 9.

You were using IE though?
Like I said, Flash 9 had all sorts of issues with other browsers (Flash 10 still hammers my laptop's T7200 on iPlayer).

Microsoft need to improve their sandboxing of third party plug-ins. That is quite clear. I hope they fit this in for the IE8 RTM.

It really needs to come up with some sort of dialog along the lines of "Adobe Flash 10 has malfunctioned and this tab has been closed". Otherwise people are blindly just going to assume that it is IE that is crashing rather than the Flash plug-in.

If they're not doing it already (and AFAICS, that isn't there), I hope they're not going to introduce a change like that post-RC1.
It's what Chrome does, though it doesn't really change anything for most users.

I think the best we can hope for is Silverlight and (especially) JS/SVG/SMIL push Adobe into doing something with Flash, or it drops into irrelevance.