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Can anyone help me? I'm using IExplorer 7, and sometimes, it closes for no reason at all. I've tried to look for a pattern, but there is none. It's not too many tabs, not a specific site/time, antivirus scan comes out fine, nothing wrong. Help please.

And you're all patched up? No relation to the amount of time your system has been running (it's about as likely to crash out five minutes after you boot up as it is to crash after you've been running for five days)?

This should fix you up completely:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Was just going to say that.

IEFTS

Eh, I use Firefox at work only because of Firebug. I prefer IE for my entertainment browsing at home. IE doesn't leak memory on me as badly, it doesn't have the bug where it can't end its own process properly when I close it, and I get crash bugs in Firefox too (I think that's related to Flash ads doing weird things when I close tabs and rapidly try to do things in another, but I'm not sure). However, Firefox's web developer tools are far, far superior, so it's the browser of choice for doing my job.

I have Firefox, but I'm just asking because it's only in one computer that it happens to me, so I didn't know if it was the computer or what.

I've always had some sort of problem with IE. I think you just have to go find the most updated version. They keep the computers at work updated with IE and I don't have a problem too often.

I use Firefox at home.

I use IE7 everywhere and I have never had a problem with it.

Internet Explorer? More like Internet Exploder -- zing!

But seriously, if it's just the one computer, I'd have to agree with avwolf. Just make sure you're running the most current version, and maybe a virus scan. Or holy water, I forget which it is with IE.

Preferably both. :P And also a run through with a spyware cleaner; that could help a lot. Ad-Aware used to be my clear favorite, but I'm not as fond of the new version.

There are a lot of little things that can cause crashes. I seriously have more crash bugs happen because of ads than anything else -- which means that it's not necessarily any particular site that causes the crash, but rather one ad in a particular ad network which could stretch multiple sites. The crash problem I described that I run into with Firefox also affects IE -- it's a matter of the computer being busy while it tries to simultaneously clear memory and assign new memory. Sometimes it gets distracted and causes a memory violation (that's my guess at it anyway). I just use Firefox a lot more (I am on my laptop at work far more than I am on my desktop at home), so I experience it more often there. (For the record, it's still very rare.)

IE does have some problems when you open a lot of tabs. As in "more than twenty or thirty." It starts missing opening them unless you remember to give it plenty of time in between opening tabs. It'll misallocate the tab and it won't actually have content. But that's about the only bug that I seen in IE very often.

If you want to hear me throwing zingers, Ryusen, we should bring up Norton. :P

Too easy.

If you need a good, free spyware detector, SUPERAntiSpyware is a great one. I use it all the time, and I've never had any problems with spyware (unless I forget to run it for a few weeks).

I use Ad-Aware SE. Works fine for me. But the best prevention for spyware is to know what not to do on the net. Like clicking pretty banner ads like somebody's (I won't say whofastchapter) mother loves doing, especially since they have games on them.

Meh, I'll guess I'll just stop using IExplorer. I just use it for things Firefox won't run anyways.

that's a good idea pq

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