# An IE7.0 Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 2, 2007, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ie7-0-question/414066 "2007-08-02T00:45:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ie7-0-question/414066/1 "2007-08-02T00:45:11Z")
I’m using Internet Explorer 7.0 for general browsing and one of the things I use a lot is the tabbed browsing feature. I especially use it for this board as it has a tendency to hang from time to time so I just read another thread while it’s loading. Lately (the past five or so days), though, about 60% of the time that I open up a new tab, the browser will freeze for maybe 4-5 seconds and the new tab will say “Connecting…” before it starts to load. Additionally, even when it doesn’t freeze for a few seconds, maybe about 10 seconds later, I’ll get the “Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.” error and the browser will shut down. I’ve re-booted, I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled the browser, and I still don’t know how to fix the problem (outside of using another browser, smartasses! 😃 ) Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Queuing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/90ced4/32.png) [@Queuing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queuing)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ie7-0-question/414066/2 "2007-08-02T02:02:09Z")
Any add-ons in IE7? Done any windows updates recently? Not done any windows updates in a long time? Any other software installation? ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ie7-0-question/414066/3 "2007-08-02T02:58:42Z")
I did add the most recent version of AdAware, but that’s the only program I can think of. It’s possible that that is screwing with it, but I thought by reinstalling it, that would solve the problem. I do the Windows updates pretty regularly, I have it scheduled and I just reboot when asked. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-ie7-0-question/414066/4 "2007-08-03T03:03:24Z")
Just one _bump_