Home Bar Blog » lock up http://www.barplan.com/blog/home Discussing DIY Projects, Home Improvement & Other Fun Stuff. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:20:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Not Responding – Is Windows IE Wasting Your Time? http://www.barplan.com/blog/home/2008/04/18/not-responding-is-windows-ie-wasting-your-time/ http://www.barplan.com/blog/home/2008/04/18/not-responding-is-windows-ie-wasting-your-time/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:36:31 +0000 admin0 http://www.barplan.com/blog/home/2008/04/18/not-responding-is-windows-ie-wasting-your-time/ steaming mad over internet explorer lock upsHow many times per day does your Internet Explorer web browser lock up, crash or freeze? Internet Explorer 7 wastes hours of productivity and is hands down the worst piece of software we have ever experienced.
When casually browsing the web, IE 7 lockups every other session. Firefox on the otherhand rarely locks up at all. It kinda makes me wonder what is going on over in Redmond. They produce the operating system, yet they can not produce a stable internet browser. Is this a problem that they are unwilling or unable to fix or perhaps a monopoly designed to hold back competition?

We have tried the new IE 7 Pro browser add-on, but the only thing it appears to do is catch IE when it falls and while it worked fine for a few days, it too eventually bogged down. This problem has been going on for far too long. IE version 8 is on the horizon, but reviews of the beta version provides little promise, as does Vista.

Symptoms of IE crashes include:
1. Hard drive starts chunking & grinding for several minutes while nothing happens.
2. Task Manager > Applications tab shows “Internet Explorer Not Responding”.
3. Entire PC freezes for extended time while it sorts out it’s own mess.
4. The words about:blank appear in the address bar.
5. Utter frustration sets in.

In a world rife with so many other problems, ain’t it great how one company can make you so incredily unproductive? Let’s hear how MS IE problems affect your work day.

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