"Error: 'ManyBox' is undefined"

[Robbie Hatley]

Greetings, groups. (I'm crossposting this to two groups
which I believe are applicable to my problem.) Starting
about 10 days ago, I starting getting the following error
message in a popup box whenever I visit any web sites with
a search feature of any kind (Google, YouTube, etc):

"Error: 'ManyBox' is undefined"

(I'm guessing that 'ManyBox' is a javascript function.)

I don't recall installing any new software recently or
making any major changes to settings, so I'm perplexed.
Does anyone here have an idea as to why my IE6 has suddenly
started balking at this 'ManyBox' thingy? (And how to fix
it?) Many thanks in advance!

 

[Rob ^_^]

Hi Robbie,

This is the correct group for IE6, General is for IE7.

Two possible causes.

Hosts file blocking or Firewall blocking (Nortons Productivity Control?)

This could have only just started to appear because of a change of Internet
Settings.

On the Advanced tab of Internet Options uncheck "Display a notification
about every script error".

There was an addon, (I've forgoten it's name) that always switched this
setting back on (the developer forgot to remove his debugging code before
releasing his software), so if this setting changes back, check you addons
for Toolbar or Browser Helpers (BHOs) that may be causing this (probably you
may have just installed this toolbar recently and that is why the errors
have started appearing)

Regards.

 

[Robbie Hatley]

Two possible causes.

Hosts file blocking or Firewall blocking (Nortons
Productivity Control?)

I have Zone Alarm. I didn't think it would interfere with
one particular item like that, but let me check...

::: disables Zone Alarm :::
::: closes all browser windows :::
::: restarts IE :::
::: searches for something on Google :::

The problem no longer occurs. Thanks for the tip!

I'll have to look into which setting in Zone Alarm is
causing the problem.

On the Advanced tab of Internet Options uncheck "Display
a notification about every script error".

I always leave that enabled. If I'm going to allow a web
site to use Javascript at all (and with many web sites
I don't, because they use it agressively, to lock-out
mouse functions), I want to know if scripts fail.

 

[Jon Kennedy]

Zone Alarm support has this to say about script errors on web sites:

If you get Script or HTML code errors, privacy settings are too high for
that site. Turn off Privacy for that site. If you still have difficulty,
please click here
http://www2.nohold.net/noHoldCust542/Prod_1/Articles55646/privacy.html