Hotmail crashing IE7 BETA3

p0rks0da · 3 Jul 2006 at 19:44

Anyone else having problems getting to their hotmail? The page loads fine for me, but once i have logged in and gone into my inbox it lock IE7 up after about 1-2 seconds. There is a blank banner space at the top of the page which i'm guessing is the cause of the problem but i can't be sure. Seems very weird as hotmail was working fine about 1-2 hours ago when i last checked, which is why i am thinking they might have put a new banner up which is causing the problems.

p0rks0da · 3 Jul 2006 at 19:45

Oops i should have mentioned that it was also doing this in Beta 2 (literally just upgraded to IE7.3 in the hopes it would fix the problem).

Magsy · 3 Jul 2006 at 19:54

Happening here in IE 6 on two machines with different accounts.

It appears to be the Messenger sign-in which goes on towards the top of the page.

It works fine is Firefox, but that seems to skip over the Messenger intergration.

Fillado · 3 Jul 2006 at 20:39

Appears to be working fine here (IE7 Beta3) :confused:

Although...I have disabled the Windows Live Messenger plugin in IE...

p0rks0da · 3 Jul 2006 at 21:10

Strange, i have the messenger plugin disabled also in IE7, i just installed Firefox and that is working just fine, but IE7 just keeps crashing with 100% cpu load everytime.

Ah well, i'll just stick with FF for a bit i guess, i don't like the interface so much, but at least it works lol.

I am pretty much convinced it's the Orange banner ads that are doing it.

Fillado · 3 Jul 2006 at 22:45

Ah, it could be because I have SpywareBlaster installed, which among blocking bad sites and tracking cookies also blocks ads

Blocks tracking cookies in Fx too