# IE v5 question - page loading

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-v5-question-page-loading/43772>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 3, 2000, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-v5-question-page-loading/43772 "2000-12-03T01:10:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-v5-question-page-loading/43772/1 "2000-12-03T01:10:08Z")

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Hiya

Whenever Internet Explorer 5 cannot load a page, it flips to a nice friendly message saying ‘page won’t load’. That’s cool.

But when a banner doesn’t load, it also flips to a whole new page to tell me the little corner of the site won’t load!!

I wish like heck it wouldn’t do that, it is very frustrating. Can anyone point me to how I stop this little irritation?

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**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-v5-question-page-loading/43772/2 "2000-12-03T01:56:52Z")

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I am using IE5.0 and do not have that problem. Only the banner will say not found and the rest will show normally.

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-v5-question-page-loading/43772/3 "2000-12-03T02:10:00Z")

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Guano, I had that same crap happen, too. Only thing that eventually fixed it was going back to IE4.0 (after a reformat - I hope for your sake THAT part isn’t neccessary), and then going straight to 5.5.

Going from 5.0 to 5.5 didn’t fix the problem.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-v5-question-page-loading/43772/4 "2000-12-03T06:17:19Z")

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Hmmm. I haven’t heard great things about 5.5, so I’ll wait a while before doing that…

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**Author:** ![stifferd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@stifferd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stifferd)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-v5-question-page-loading/43772/5 "2000-12-03T14:00:22Z")

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Hmmm…would this work?

Disable script debugging and uncheck ‘Display a notification of evry script error’? (control panel, internet options)

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**Author:** ![diamud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@diamud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diamud)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-v5-question-page-loading/43772/6 "2000-12-03T14:32:38Z")

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Just wanted to second the opinion that 5.5 was much buggier, unstable, and slower on my machine (Pent. 550 Mhz, 128 mgs ram). I went back to using 5, no problems.