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This problem started a month or two ago. At first it was just a minor
irritant and I thought it might have been some new "feature", but it's
beginning to drive me nuts. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
I have IE 6 SP1 (my company won't let me apply SP2 for compatibility
reasons). At first, the only symptom was that if I typed or linked to an
invalid/non-existent address, the window would display the usual "invalid
link" page for a varying amount of time (between about one and ten seconds),
and then close spontaneously. At the time I was working on a javascript that
automatically generated and opened links, so every time my script generated a
bad link I had to try to read or copy the contents of the address bar before
it closed on me -- hence the frustration. (But it's not my javascript that's
at fault. I get the same symptoms if I mistype an address directly into the
address bar.)
Now that my javascript is beginning to work, I'm finding that it's not just
invalid links. Sometimes if the script generates a valid link it will open
okay, but then if I try to use the browser's "back" button it will take me to
a blank window (though the address bar shows the correct address for the
originating page). Or sometimes the originating page will open briefly and
then close -- or some other window in background will close. Then again,
sometimes it will work fine. Don't ya just love that kind of thing?
Most, maybe all, of the time the addresses that cause this are on my local
hard drive or on a network drive (file:///...). I don't think it's happened
on http yet, but it's hard to say for sure because the behaviour is
inconsistent and the windows often close in background when I'm not paying
attention to them.
I've run SpyBot and eTrust antivirus, which found nothing.
Any ideas?
irritant and I thought it might have been some new "feature", but it's
beginning to drive me nuts. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
I have IE 6 SP1 (my company won't let me apply SP2 for compatibility
reasons). At first, the only symptom was that if I typed or linked to an
invalid/non-existent address, the window would display the usual "invalid
link" page for a varying amount of time (between about one and ten seconds),
and then close spontaneously. At the time I was working on a javascript that
automatically generated and opened links, so every time my script generated a
bad link I had to try to read or copy the contents of the address bar before
it closed on me -- hence the frustration. (But it's not my javascript that's
at fault. I get the same symptoms if I mistype an address directly into the
address bar.)
Now that my javascript is beginning to work, I'm finding that it's not just
invalid links. Sometimes if the script generates a valid link it will open
okay, but then if I try to use the browser's "back" button it will take me to
a blank window (though the address bar shows the correct address for the
originating page). Or sometimes the originating page will open briefly and
then close -- or some other window in background will close. Then again,
sometimes it will work fine. Don't ya just love that kind of thing?
Most, maybe all, of the time the addresses that cause this are on my local
hard drive or on a network drive (file:///...). I don't think it's happened
on http yet, but it's hard to say for sure because the behaviour is
inconsistent and the windows often close in background when I'm not paying
attention to them.
I've run SpyBot and eTrust antivirus, which found nothing.
Any ideas?