a specific website hangs ie8

coreservers · Aug 04, 2010, 21:59:52

IE8 will remaion stable on my pc until I try to open www..goodmoves.org.uk . then it hangs and I have to task manager it. Safari and firefox open it just fine. I've had a look to see what addons are runnig and nothing out of the ordinary. i've scanned for viruses and it's clean. reinstalled it.

anyone got any ideas?

john · Aug 04, 2010, 22:09:26

I'm using IE8 and it works fine for me

kinmel · Aug 04, 2010, 22:10:30

You have too many dots after www

Cut & paste from your post into IE8 fails, delete a dot and it loads perfectly

FF and Safari autocorrect such errors

Simon · Aug 04, 2010, 22:24:48

kinmel · Aug 04, 2010, 22:30:30

Quote from: Simon on Aug 04, 2010, 22:24:48

I suspect coreservers problem may be more complex than that simple solution

coreservers · Aug 04, 2010, 23:27:25

the two dots is a typo.
i'm thinking trojan. possibly, will run an overnight avast scan see if that works.

pctech · Aug 05, 2010, 02:24:32

Working just fine in IE8

Try clearing your Temporary Internet Files.

BAP · Aug 05, 2010, 10:34:57

Quote from: coreservers on Aug 04, 2010, 21:59:52
IE8 will remaion stable on my pc until I try to open www..goodmoves.org.uk . then it hangs and I have to task manager it. Safari and firefox open it just fine. I've had a look to see what addons are runnig and nothing out of the ordinary. i've scanned for viruses and it's clean. reinstalled it.

anyone got any ideas?

Very slow with IE8, ok with Firefox!

john · Aug 05, 2010, 17:50:06

I wonder if some of the differences in browser speeds are dependent on the configuration and/or other external factors. Because people often say that Firefox is quicker I decided to do some timing tests with http://www.goodmoves.org.uk/.

I installed Firefox 3.5.4 and opened the website several times in this and IE8 (clearing the cache before each time I opened it) In IE8 it took between 10 and 30 seconds to open it but with Firefox it was always about 40 seconds.

I also once got a message with Firefox to say that the following add-ons are known to cause stability or security problems : 'Java Deployment Toolkit 6.0.170.4' and 'MetaStream 3 Plugin 3.2.2.26'.

If I didn't delete the Cache then they both took about 2 seconds.

(I know there's a later version of FF available but I used 3.5.4 as I already had the install executable downloaded from when I tried FF before)

pctech · Aug 05, 2010, 17:57:14

Although I use FF for most of my browsing and certainly for any stuff that requires high security such as banking I do find that IE has the edge in rendering speed and multimedia performance.