Internet Explorer 5.1

According to other posts, MSN.com has been set to not open in the Mac version, as Microsoft no longer supports it. [This only makes sense in the mind of Microsoft.

To get around this you need to open a link in Internet explorer and the change the home page to something else or blank.

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Hi, fragmore!

Thanks for the information about the www.msn.com url hanging up IE. I just tested this on my rarely-used IE application and sure enough, it "beachballed".

I find it bizarre, though, that it actually hangs the application, rather than simply failing to load the URL. Moreover, I eventually managed to get the url to load through some round-about maneuvering, although it only shows the search portion of the page, which is actually functional! Looks like perhaps MS did a sloppy job in turning it off. You're probably correct about it only making sense in the mind of Microsoft!

Otherwise, IE 5.2.3 does work. (My spouse routinely uses it on the G3.)

Regards,
Gary

Considering that Microsoft does not even have IE for Mac available on their Mac site (with Office, Virtual PC) anymore, and support has been dropped, you might want to try another browser.

I agree. I use Opera. It is fast, fantastic, and free. It does way more than Internet explorer. Actually most browsers do more that IE. In fact some sites will not work with IE 5.2.3 [the last version]. Plus as someone said M/$ does not support IE on the Mac.

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martian cat,

Fragmore has provided a solution for this, but perhaps I can offer some detailed steps to implement his recommendation:

Create a web link document dragging the URL from the navigation bar on the browser you're now using, to your desktop. The URL for this Discussions page would work just fine, for simplicity.

Insure Internet Explorer is not "running", force-quitting it if necessary.

If Internet Explorer (IE) is in the Dock, drag the web link that you just created onto the IE icon in the Dock and release the mouse to launch the web link with IE. (This will bypass the default IE setting to open the msn.com homepage at launch, which should prevent it from hanging up.) If IE is not in the Dock, then control-click on the weblink, choose "Open with>Other..." and navigate to and select IE to launch the weblink.

If successful so far, then select Explorer>Preferences from the menubar at the top of your Desktop. In the popup window that appears, highlight "Browser Display" from within the "Web Browser" main heading on the left side of this window. On the right side of the window, uncheck the box that states "Automatically go to this Home Page when opening a new window". In the "Address" box immediately above, click the "Use None" button, which will delete the default msn.com homepage URL. Click "OK" at the bottom of the window and then quit IE. Relaunch IE and hopefully, the problem will resolve.

If the problem still remains, then quit/force quit IE and navigate to Home/Library/Caches/MS Internet Cache/IE Cache.waf and drag the IE Cache.waf file to your desktop and redo the steps outlined in the preceding two paragraphs. If this resolves the issue, then drag the IE Cache.waf file from your desktop to the trash, emptying the trash. If it doesn't, drag this waf file back to it's original location, replacing the new one that was since created by IE; then please post back and advise us.

Gary

ps: You will have to do this in each user account, if you have multiple accounts on the Mac.

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