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I am using Windows XP and I have noticed that sometimes IE fails to open pages, while the browser that comes with AOL will usually do it. Why would IE not open certain pages that AOL will? I don't think it has to do with the security settings. Are there any other reasons?

Are you talking about specific pages that never open, or random pages which refuse to load sometimes?

Thats why some call it "Internet Exploder"... nuff said...

Honostly, find me a browser that doesn't puke out on occasion and I'll show you one in awe skeptic...

I guess random pages. I tried to click on a link earlier, and IE gave me an error. When I pasted the link into the AOL browser, it opened. This has happened a few times with random sites.

These kind of glitches are damned near impossible to diagnose above and beyond merely saying that IE is a Microsoft program. It's not supposed to work properly all of the time.

If you want a reliable web broswer, use Mozilla.

Isnt the AOL browser a wrapper around IE?

As usual, I doubt this flaw is in Explorer, maybe some other part of the system.

ggs wrote:Isnt the AOL browser a wrapper around IE?

I think the most recent version is a wrapper around Netscape 7 (AKA Mozilla). Previous versions were simply Internet Explorer with a new icon instead of the Windows/globe one.

Datana wrote:

ggs wrote:Isnt the AOL browser a wrapper around IE?

I think the most recent version is a wrapper around Netscape 7 (AKA Mozilla). Previous versions were simply Internet Explorer with a new icon instead of the Windows/globe one.

That's only the Mac version; the Windows version still comes bundled with a mangled IE6 wrapper.

Could you be specific on the error? Did it give a DNS error msg?

ggs wrote:Isnt the AOL browser a wrapper around IE?

If anything, the AOL browser is a crippled version of Internet Exploder.

Load Nutscrape and see what that does for you.

Mabye this has somthing to do with it? http://www.divstivs.plus.com/iconwar/

LMAO!

BTW, the sounds used in that come from Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II

Because it's too busy uploading all your personal information to Microsoft.

Or mabye it's because MIRCO-SOFT (is it just me or is gates compensating for somthing) uses rabid chimps to code its programs.

darthdavid wrote:Mabye this has somthing to do with it? http://www.divstivs.plus.com/iconwar/

BWAHAHAAHAHH!!!
That seems like a cool game...

Micro$hit program, 'nuff said.

Superman wrote:I am using Windows XP and I have noticed that sometimes IE fails to open pages, while the browser that comes with AOL will usually do it. Why would IE not open certain pages that AOL will? I don't think it has to do with the security settings. Are there any other reasons?

It is simply because you have AOL installed. AOL takes over your OS and brands its own modded version of IE, with no regard to the consequences to the legitimate thing.

AOL sucks. Ass. Pretty much the only way to completely remove its crappy software from your machine is by running FORMAT C:

Hyperion wrote:Micro$hit program, 'nuff said.

Yes, you've said quite enough.

My IE won't load links in new windows anymore. I use Opera now...

Soulman wrote:My IE won't load links in new windows anymore. I use Opera now...

Using IE6:
Tools->Internet Options->Advanced-> make sure the box 'Reuse windows for launching shortcuts' is unchecked (Listed under 'Browsing')

Next!

I rarely have problems with IE, certainly no more often then I have with other browsers I've used. Really with billions of web pages around nothings ever going to work perfectly, and there are so many opportunities for errors on servers and pages themselves it hard to tell when it really is your browser failing. I lose more time to problems with my ISP and connection then with my browser.