I recently installed Internet Explorer 6. Before, whenever I’d get a pop-up ad or an unwanted new window, I’d just click off on it; problem solved.
Since I’ve had IE6, however, most of the time when I click off on an unwanted window in the usual manner, a window pops up saying that an error has happened with IE, and basically shuts down and reboots with a clean slate, starting at my homepage (www.msn.com).
Is this any fault of my own when I installed it, perhaps, or is it a bug that there’s a fix for, to anyones knowledge? Thanks.
Who cares? 
Go download one of the popup ad killers for free, and problem solved.
I was having a similar problem lately with IE in which closing certain pop-up windows while they were loading could actually crash the network server connected to the sattalite modem. My solution was to switch to Mozilla.
I suspect there’s some animation, plug-in, or scripting on those pop-ups involved - something that requires IE to load resources from disk, and closing in the middle of it causes bad things to happen. I wonder if it’s on purpose - advertisers wanting to punish people who close pop-ups if they haven’t loaded the ad yet? I wouldn’t be suprised.
Hmmm…might have a point there, Andrew…tho’ with some, I’ve closed them after 10 minutes, still a crash…
And, Muttrox, I agree with you somewhat, and especially about the pop-up killer, which might be a future option. However, this phenomenon also happens with new windows, say when I click on a link. I’m still soliciting answers, for anyone with more information…BTW, anyone know of a totally free pop-up killer? All the ones I’ve found are shareware that expires or Paypal versions.
I use popup blocker from http://www.panicware.com/ There is a free version there. As far as I know, there are no strings attached, and I have never had any problems with it.
I use popup blocker from http://www.panicware.com/ There is a free version there. As far as I know, there are no strings attached, and I have never had any problems with it.
I’ve been happy with The Proxomitron.
Not only does it block pop-ups with high reliability, it has dozens of other useful filters for blocking ads and annoying browser features.
Proxomitron is the best I’ve found. Get it at http://proxomitron.orgp. Fairly easy and painless to set up (just unzip somewhere, run it and change two settings in Internet Explorer) and you’re done. It also gets rid of just about anything you can imagine that’s annoying on the web–banners, ads, javascript, blinking text, background music. Very configurable too. And it’s free…