I am having a problem with Internet Explorer 8. I have noticed it
happening when I have been playing cards in Zone.com. I try to close
IE and it does not close. I then get the dialog box that asks what I
want to do and I tell it to close the program. I then noticed that
the computer was running slowly and opened task manager. Internet
Explorer was running four times. I closed them all and CPU usage
dropped to normal (it had been very high). I normally use Firefox
except when I'm in a Microsoft site like zone.com where I have to use
IE, but this is really strange and I have no idea what is happening.
Any thoughts? BTW, I'm behind a router and using up to date security
software.

On 2/09/10, Shoe posted:
> I am having a problem with Internet Explorer 8. I have noticed it
> happening when I have been playing cards in Zone.com. I try to close
> IE and it does not close. I then get the dialog box that asks what I
> want to do and I tell it to close the program. I then noticed that
> the computer was running slowly and opened task manager. Internet
> Explorer was running four times. I closed them all and CPU usage
> dropped to normal (it had been very high). I normally use Firefox
> except when I'm in a Microsoft site like zone.com where I have to use
> IE, but this is really strange and I have no idea what is happening.
> Any thoughts? BTW, I'm behind a router and using up to date security
> software.

Firefox has an add-on available to make a tab emulate IE. Perhaps that
will do a better job on the site in question. I don't recall its name,
so you'd have to search.

No wait, it's called IE Tab, but it's not compatible with FF 3.6. Or at
least my copy of it isn't...

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Gene Bloch 650.366.4267 lettersatblochg.com

On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:51:05 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
<letters@someplace.invalid> wrote:

>On 2/09/10, Shoe posted:
>> I am having a problem with Internet Explorer 8. I have noticed it
>> happening when I have been playing cards in Zone.com. I try to close
>> IE and it does not close. I then get the dialog box that asks what I
>> want to do and I tell it to close the program. I then noticed that
>> the computer was running slowly and opened task manager. Internet
>> Explorer was running four times. I closed them all and CPU usage
>> dropped to normal (it had been very high). I normally use Firefox
>> except when I'm in a Microsoft site like zone.com where I have to use
>> IE, but this is really strange and I have no idea what is happening.
>> Any thoughts? BTW, I'm behind a router and using up to date security
>> software.
>
>Firefox has an add-on available to make a tab emulate IE. Perhaps that
>will do a better job on the site in question. I don't recall its name,
>so you'd have to search.
>
>No wait, it's called IE Tab, but it's not compatible with FF 3.6. Or at
>least my copy of it isn't...

It was a problem with the Hearts game at zone.com. Everything is
working today.

On 2/10/10, Shoe posted:
> On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:51:05 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
> <letters@someplace.invalid> wrote:

>> On 2/09/10, Shoe posted:
>>> I am having a problem with Internet Explorer 8. I have noticed it
>>> happening when I have been playing cards in Zone.com. I try to close
>>> IE and it does not close. I then get the dialog box that asks what I
>>> want to do and I tell it to close the program. I then noticed that
>>> the computer was running slowly and opened task manager. Internet
>>> Explorer was running four times. I closed them all and CPU usage
>>> dropped to normal (it had been very high). I normally use Firefox
>>> except when I'm in a Microsoft site like zone.com where I have to use
>>> IE, but this is really strange and I have no idea what is happening.
>>> Any thoughts? BTW, I'm behind a router and using up to date security
>>> software.
>>
>> Firefox has an add-on available to make a tab emulate IE. Perhaps that
>> will do a better job on the site in question. I don't recall its name,
>> so you'd have to search.
>>
>> No wait, it's called IE Tab, but it's not compatible with FF 3.6. Or at
>> least my copy of it isn't...

> It was a problem with the Hearts game at zone.com. Everything is
> working today.

It's kind of interesting how the symptoms of various problems keep
pointing the wrong way :-)

I'm glad your good detective work solved the problem - and thanks for
letting us know.

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Gene Bloch 650.366.4267 lettersatblochg.com

On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:13:38 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
<letters@someplace.invalid> wrote:

>On 2/10/10, Shoe posted:
>> On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:51:05 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
>> <letters@someplace.invalid> wrote:
>
>>> On 2/09/10, Shoe posted:
>>>> I am having a problem with Internet Explorer 8. I have noticed it
>>>> happening when I have been playing cards in Zone.com. I try to close
>>>> IE and it does not close. I then get the dialog box that asks what I
>>>> want to do and I tell it to close the program. I then noticed that
>>>> the computer was running slowly and opened task manager. Internet
>>>> Explorer was running four times. I closed them all and CPU usage
>>>> dropped to normal (it had been very high). I normally use Firefox
>>>> except when I'm in a Microsoft site like zone.com where I have to use
>>>> IE, but this is really strange and I have no idea what is happening.
>>>> Any thoughts? BTW, I'm behind a router and using up to date security
>>>> software.
>>>
>>> Firefox has an add-on available to make a tab emulate IE. Perhaps that
>>> will do a better job on the site in question. I don't recall its name,
>>> so you'd have to search.
>>>
>>> No wait, it's called IE Tab, but it's not compatible with FF 3.6. Or at
>>> least my copy of it isn't...
>
>> It was a problem with the Hearts game at zone.com. Everything is
>> working today.
>
>It's kind of interesting how the symptoms of various problems keep
>pointing the wrong way :-)
>
>I'm glad your good detective work solved the problem - and thanks for
>letting us know.

The problem came back, so I installed IEtab and that works great. Also
much faster than IE. Thanks for your suggestion.

On 2/13/10, Shoe posted:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:13:38 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
> <letters@someplace.invalid> wrote:

>> On 2/10/10, Shoe posted:
>>> On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:51:05 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
>>> <letters@someplace.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>> On 2/09/10, Shoe posted:
>>>>> I am having a problem with Internet Explorer 8. I have noticed it
>>>>> happening when I have been playing cards in Zone.com. I try to close
>>>>> IE and it does not close. I then get the dialog box that asks what I
>>>>> want to do and I tell it to close the program. I then noticed that
>>>>> the computer was running slowly and opened task manager. Internet
>>>>> Explorer was running four times. I closed them all and CPU usage
>>>>> dropped to normal (it had been very high). I normally use Firefox
>>>>> except when I'm in a Microsoft site like zone.com where I have to use
>>>>> IE, but this is really strange and I have no idea what is happening.
>>>>> Any thoughts? BTW, I'm behind a router and using up to date security
>>>>> software.
>>>>
>>>> Firefox has an add-on available to make a tab emulate IE. Perhaps that
>>>> will do a better job on the site in question. I don't recall its name,
>>>> so you'd have to search.
>>>>
>>>> No wait, it's called IE Tab, but it's not compatible with FF 3.6. Or at
>>>> least my copy of it isn't...
>>
>>> It was a problem with the Hearts game at zone.com. Everything is
>>> working today.
>>
>> It's kind of interesting how the symptoms of various problems keep
>> pointing the wrong way :-)
>>
>> I'm glad your good detective work solved the problem - and thanks for
>> letting us know.

> The problem came back, so I installed IEtab and that works great. Also
> much faster than IE. Thanks for your suggestion.

And thanks for the update.

OT:
I recently had to use a county site to fill in a form, and I couldn't
print it from either Firefox or Internet explorer. More accurately - I
could print it, but all the blanks were ... blank.

I ended up doing screen shots. First I hit Home and grabbed the top of
the document, then scrolled down to get the second half. I was
simultaneously amused and annoyed :-)(

Luckily, I was using CutePDF, so I didn't waste any paper.

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Gene Bloch 650.366.4267 lettersatblochg.com