Google [web ] via Internet Explorer 5.1.6 is suddenly inaccessible
All of a sudden, after years of using Google as my home page with IE 5.1.6 I can not get to Google Home Page.
Yesterday, I had a first ever crash [?] on the site I use to look at TV listings [zap2it]. The message said the internet preference folder was damaged and should be trashed. It was and on restart a new one appeared. All well and good, I thought.
The next time Mr H turned on the computer and went to IE he says he began to type in the search before Google came up, but I've done that before and all that happened was part of the searched word went into the main search box on IE and the rest went into Google's box and then I had to fix it by typing the whole word in the Google search box. This time Google never appeared. In the progress box at the bottom of the screen it shows loading 0 bites of 5855 [or some number like that] the progress wheel spins and it goes nowhere and can't be stopped.
I still use OS 9.1. I use Internet Explorer version 5.1.6. I can get to Google maps or videos or news with IE, but if I click on Google Web it doesn't work. My screen freezes and I have to do a restart. I can use IE to get anywhere else [well almost anywhere else, but it's been that way for years]
Interestingly enough, I am able to access Google through Netscape, version 7.0.2.
I have cleared cache and history; I have run disk first aid and disk doctor; I have rebuilt the desktop.
Yes, I know I should switch to OS X and I will soon [as long as I can still access OS 9 and all those files that won't work in X], I just need to get this fixed now. Of course I can use dogpile or another search, I'm just wondering if this symptom means something bigger than just Google via IE is in trouble.
I e-mailed Google help and they also suggested deleting all cookies - but I didn't know if that was a PC suggestion or a Mac suggestion. [Ididn't do it] I also have wondered about going back to my last hard drive backup and just removing the IE app and replacing it with the one in my backup that worked - but I don't think the app is the problem since it works fine for all else [not for this site though...] and I don't know what I should be replacing.
Help, please,
Mrs
Yesterday, I had a first ever crash [?] on the site I use to look at TV listings [zap2it]. The message said the internet preference folder was damaged and should be trashed. It was and on restart a new one appeared. All well and good, I thought.
The next time Mr H turned on the computer and went to IE he says he began to type in the search before Google came up, but I've done that before and all that happened was part of the searched word went into the main search box on IE and the rest went into Google's box and then I had to fix it by typing the whole word in the Google search box. This time Google never appeared. In the progress box at the bottom of the screen it shows loading 0 bites of 5855 [or some number like that] the progress wheel spins and it goes nowhere and can't be stopped.
I still use OS 9.1. I use Internet Explorer version 5.1.6. I can get to Google maps or videos or news with IE, but if I click on Google Web it doesn't work. My screen freezes and I have to do a restart. I can use IE to get anywhere else [well almost anywhere else, but it's been that way for years]
Interestingly enough, I am able to access Google through Netscape, version 7.0.2.
I have cleared cache and history; I have run disk first aid and disk doctor; I have rebuilt the desktop.
Yes, I know I should switch to OS X and I will soon [as long as I can still access OS 9 and all those files that won't work in X], I just need to get this fixed now. Of course I can use dogpile or another search, I'm just wondering if this symptom means something bigger than just Google via IE is in trouble.
I e-mailed Google help and they also suggested deleting all cookies - but I didn't know if that was a PC suggestion or a Mac suggestion. [Ididn't do it] I also have wondered about going back to my last hard drive backup and just removing the IE app and replacing it with the one in my backup that worked - but I don't think the app is the problem since it works fine for all else [not for this site though...] and I don't know what I should be replacing.
Help, please,
Mrs
Dual 450 G4, Mac OS 9.1.x, and old PowerBook 170 and ancient [faithfully still working] Mac Plus
