When browsing a website with my browser at work (MS Internet Explorer, v. 5.00), if I choose the View pull-down menu and then choose Source, nothing happens.
Same if I right-click on the page and choose View Source. Nothing happens.
The selections aren’t grayed out, they just don’t work any longer.
With the exception: If I’m browsing a HTML file on the hard drive or on the local network, then View-Source works fine.
Is this perhaps some “added security” that our I.T. department added? Or maybe a known bug that was fixed since v.5.00? Or perhaps the result of some setting that I unwittingly changed?
I’ve seen this behaviour (very inconsistently) in the past. I think it is an IE bug but no-one has ever been able to confirm this. I’ve found reloading the page in a new browser window often sorts it out.
I’ve been running into this for a long time now. Somewhere along the line I found a “fix” which makes “view source” work again… at least for a while. Deleting temporary internet files seems to make it work properly again.
tools-internet options-delete files.
I’d be curious if someone knew the reason for this behavior, and if there is a more permanent fix out there.
I don’t know if there’s permanent solution. Your computer just seems to run out of space.
I’ve noticed a similar issue using Notepad alone, which I use to make webpages. Even a small file, edited and saved many times under the same file name in one session can led to not being able to proceed further. Notepad I think is supposed to handle 75-100K files, but I’ve locked things up with 35K. So I have to turned things off and start up again.
Hmmm… odd; my impression was that IE5 was really buggy, 5.5 less so and 6 was pretty stable, but I moved to IE6 at the same time as moving from Win98 to XP, which might be significant.
