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From: Julia M on 30 Dec 2009 12:17
Hi,

Just 2 short weeks ago I installed Windows7 64bit on my nice and shiny
new NB and already my nerves are on edge because of IE8's weird
behaviour.

Since IE8/64 does not support Flash I was forced to switch to IE8/32
and that's when the trouble started.
It does not seem possible to open any new window or tab from the
context menu. i.e. right-clicking on a link and choose "open link in
new tab".
A new tab is created alright, but it hangs and hangs and hangs and
never shows any content. I either have to click a link directly -
which works but will "lose" me the current tab - or manually have to
open a new tab and copy and paste the address. In short: It sucks.
What is more, ie8/32 spawns a new "iexplore.exe *32" thread in the
task manager - which is fine, of course - ie8/64 does it too. But with
32bit those threads never ever disappear - even if I close the
window.

I tried every setting google threw at me but it definitely boils down
to this: 32bit tabs hang indefinitely when they were opened via
context menu and its threads camp out in the task manager until I
reboot or kill them manually.
64bit works fine but ... no flash.

Can anyone else confirm this? Is there a solution?

tia
From: David B. on 30 Dec 2009 12:51
Have you tried IE in no ad-on mode to see if the issue remains? I haven't
seen that issue on any of my 3 Windows 7 x64 computers or any that I've
dealt with for that matter. The multiple instances in task manager is
common.

--


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"Julia M" <juliabtvs(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:f5d149d7-0b6d-42a1-b4d7-f946a738c1a4(a)n38g2000yqf.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> Just 2 short weeks ago I installed Windows7 64bit on my nice and shiny
> new NB and already my nerves are on edge because of IE8's weird
> behaviour.
>
> Since IE8/64 does not support Flash I was forced to switch to IE8/32
> and that's when the trouble started.
> It does not seem possible to open any new window or tab from the
> context menu. i.e. right-clicking on a link and choose "open link in
> new tab".
> A new tab is created alright, but it hangs and hangs and hangs and
> never shows any content. I either have to click a link directly -
> which works but will "lose" me the current tab - or manually have to
> open a new tab and copy and paste the address. In short: It sucks.
> What is more, ie8/32 spawns a new "iexplore.exe *32" thread in the
> task manager - which is fine, of course - ie8/64 does it too. But with
> 32bit those threads never ever disappear - even if I close the
> window.
>
> I tried every setting google threw at me but it definitely boils down
> to this: 32bit tabs hang indefinitely when they were opened via
> context menu and its threads camp out in the task manager until I
> reboot or kill them manually.
> 64bit works fine but ... no flash.
>
> Can anyone else confirm this? Is there a solution?
>
> tia

From: Julia M on 30 Dec 2009 13:18
On Dec 30, 6:51 pm, "David B." <m...(a)nomail.net> wrote:
> Have you tried IE in no ad-on mode to see if the issue remains?

Yes. That was one of the things "Google" suggested ;-)
I disabled everything but flash.
From: Dennis Pack on 30 Dec 2009 13:27
Julia:
IE8/32bit is the default since IE8/64 bit is lacking addons like
flash. I just tried to open 9 different links using the right click open in
a new tab method and every tab opened fully loaded within 3 seconds. This is
an older laptop running 2gb ram running Win-7 Professional x64 on a new
blank hard drive.

--
Dennis Pack
Win-7 Professional x64, Win-7 Enterprise x64, MS Office 2010 beta

"Julia M" <juliabtvs(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:f5d149d7-0b6d-42a1-b4d7-f946a738c1a4(a)n38g2000yqf.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> Just 2 short weeks ago I installed Windows7 64bit on my nice and shiny
> new NB and already my nerves are on edge because of IE8's weird
> behaviour.
>
> Since IE8/64 does not support Flash I was forced to switch to IE8/32
> and that's when the trouble started.
> It does not seem possible to open any new window or tab from the
> context menu. i.e. right-clicking on a link and choose "open link in
> new tab".
> A new tab is created alright, but it hangs and hangs and hangs and
> never shows any content. I either have to click a link directly -
> which works but will "lose" me the current tab - or manually have to
> open a new tab and copy and paste the address. In short: It sucks.
> What is more, ie8/32 spawns a new "iexplore.exe *32" thread in the
> task manager - which is fine, of course - ie8/64 does it too. But with
> 32bit those threads never ever disappear - even if I close the
> window.
>
> I tried every setting google threw at me but it definitely boils down
> to this: 32bit tabs hang indefinitely when they were opened via
> context menu and its threads camp out in the task manager until I
> reboot or kill them manually.
> 64bit works fine but ... no flash.
>
> Can anyone else confirm this? Is there a solution?
>
> tia

From: Sardine on 30 Dec 2009 14:22
My new Win 7/64 computer has no problems at all with Firefox, I rarely
open IE.

Sard


Julia M wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just 2 short weeks ago I installed Windows7 64bit on my nice and shiny
> new NB and already my nerves are on edge because of IE8's weird
> behaviour.
>
> Since IE8/64 does not support Flash I was forced to switch to IE8/32
> and that's when the trouble started.
> It does not seem possible to open any new window or tab from the
> context menu. i.e. right-clicking on a link and choose "open link in
> new tab".
> A new tab is created alright, but it hangs and hangs and hangs and
> never shows any content. I either have to click a link directly -
> which works but will "lose" me the current tab - or manually have to
> open a new tab and copy and paste the address. In short: It sucks.
> What is more, ie8/32 spawns a new "iexplore.exe *32" thread in the
> task manager - which is fine, of course - ie8/64 does it too. But with
> 32bit those threads never ever disappear - even if I close the
> window.
>
> I tried every setting google threw at me but it definitely boils down
> to this: 32bit tabs hang indefinitely when they were opened via
> context menu and its threads camp out in the task manager until I
> reboot or kill them manually.
> 64bit works fine but ... no flash.
>
> Can anyone else confirm this? Is there a solution?
>
> tia
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