Why does IE keep crashing? [Question for OMNIgeeks...]
 

I have two laptops, one running XP Professional and one running Vista Home. On both machines, CNN.com frequently causes IE to shut down and restart. Usually not the CNN home page, but when I navigate to a story it will shut it down. I assume it is a setting in IE, but don't know what it would be. Any ideas?

Your computer is telling you it wants to run Chrome or Firefox instead. :)

Could it be Flash or embedded video on the pages you're navigating too?

It's something on those pages, either flash, java, video, or the advertising.

Update your flash and java to see if that makes a difference.

You may want to have the OMNIMods move this to Travel Tech.

I think your computer is starting to become sapient, and realizes that CNN.com is a bunch of crap, so get your news somewhere else ;)

Actually, I have the same problem with IE, but use FireFox or Chrome, and the problems goes away

Firefox or Chrome are good ideas. If you don't like either, consider going back to IE6 or ahead to IE8 beta. IE7 is known for locking up.

After conferring with the OP, we're moving this to Travel Technology.

Thanks.

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Cholula
OMNI Co-Moderator

Removing misbehaving IE7 from client's PC's is a regular occurrence.

Try running IE without the addins: Start | Run | iexplore.exe -extoff

If that works then it is one of the addins that it breaking it. You can then start re-enabling a few at a time until you figure out which one breaks it.

Also, I'm going to update the thread title to be more useful now that the thread is over in Travel Technology.

IE = microsoft. That should tell you the reason.

Definitely go for firefox.

Is there an error message you could share with us?

make sure all your Adobe stuff is updated to the latest version (Flash, Reader, etc.). This is typcially a bad plug-in for IE that causes this, and Adobe is the main culprit in my experience. Adobe Reader also can cause general Explorer hangs in Vista (not just IE). Newer versions are better (but you still might get hangs, just not as many). It could be something else, but I would suggest starting here.

also check the following on/off options...

TOOLS>INTERNET OPTIONS>SECURITY

TOOLS>INTERNET OPTOINS>ADVANCED