Today's strange Internet Explorer 8 error message
Windows 7 x64 is great but I'm not totally convinced about Internet Explorer 8. Of all the browsers I've tried - IE6/7, Opera 9.x, Safari 3/beta 4, Chrome 1.x/2.x, Firefox 3.x and betas - IE8 is the only one to choke on Gmail's Javascript regularly. IE8 also does some funky stuff with Twitter Direct Messages: if using the Twitter website for DMs, you're prompted to save a file when you click Send.
The message gets sent, but IE8 is the only browser doing this (probably a MIME type issue). Should try to hack around it, I guess.
As for the above error message well... what? What problems? The problem's already been, the usual "Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site. Operation aborted" error while going to a blogspot.com site. The error message above isn't particularly useful, and leaves non-techie users in a limbo.
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Comment by freitasm, on 2-Jun-2009 11:58
I have no problem with Google services on IE8... But those Twitter DMs are a pain. Ever message you send and IE8 asks if you want to open or save a file.
Comment by Br3nda, on 3-Jun-2009 08:30
IE, long ago when I last used it, would ignore content-type headers (aka mime) and use file extension. Which is all wrong. I reckon that's what it's doing on twitter dm.
Comment by TheBartender, on 3-Jun-2009 12:19
I have not had any issues running IE8 on the sites you mention...
That said, through it into 'Compatiability Mode' and see how it responds (if you havent already)
Comment by Mister Teacher, on 11-Jun-2009 16:25
Yeah, I've been having exactly this problem often when trying to open my blogspot page. No way around it other than to backspace and try again?
Comment by peter, on 4-Jul-2009 12:46
Maxthon browser which has tab by tab process control and throttling regularly reports these sort of errors on google site. IMHO it's too much JavaScript code running. They should have used Flash or even Silverlight for a better performing experience
Comment by SPortYankey, on 17-Jul-2009 14:05
I was having this exact problem. Opening the blogspot page errored, using the back button (or backspace) would let the page load. But if I clicked to the next page or older post it popped right up again. Very annoying!
Adding blogspot.com to the compatibility list under Tools, Options, Compatibility View Settings did the trick.
Thank you!
Comment by SPortYankey, on 17-Jul-2009 14:45
I was having this exact problem. Opening the blogspot page errored, using the back button (or backspace) would let the page load. But if I clicked to the next page or older post it popped right up again. Very annoying!
Adding blogspot.com to the compatibility list under Tools, Options, Compatibility View Settings did the trick.
Thank you!
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Comment by chakkaradeep, on 2-Jun-2009 11:49
Of many websites, I find Google web sites, especially Gmail and Google Analytics being problematic in IE 8. I have to choose to open their websites in Compatibility Mode which solves the problem.