Re: Need Help with Stalling IE

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<mirsky-2215C3.16355328012006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mirsky <mirsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi. I am running Mac OS 10.3.9 and Internet Explorer version 5.2.3.
> Today, i started having troubles with IE. When I run the application,
> it looks for msn.com but does not successfully load in the page.
> Instead, the little spinning mac icon that indicates something is
> happening continues to spin.

You should be able to stop it trying to do whatever it is trying to do
by hitting Cmd-. (That's Command-period. Or try the Escape key, which in
some apps acts as an equivalent.

If it cannot load what you've configured as your homepage, just tell it
to not load a 'homepage' when you open a new window.

[...]

> In Mac OS 9, I knew, in a case like this, I
> could trash the IE preferences files. However, with OS X, I have no
> idea if I can trash some files to fix IE's behavior.

I believe the IE perfs file under Mac OS X is
~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.explorer.plist

You could remove it, but it sounds to me like you might simply have a
network problem (which doesn't even have to be *your* network problem -
could be M$' own servers), in which case the prefs file is irrelavent.

> Does anyone have an opinion?

Surre: upgrade to a browser that is not from the Stone Age. iCab,
Firefox, Opera, Safari, Mozilla, OmniWeb, Camino, whatever. MacIE hasn't
been worked on for some 4 years and has officially been declared dead by
Microsoft. In another 2 days or so they'll even stop offering it for
download.

Now if they'd only do the same with WinIE.

--
Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/%7Etekelenb/>
.

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