Try disabling plug-ins to see if it's being caused by one of them? I am using IE8 on XP SP2 without the problems you describe.
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Steven M. Caesare <scaes...@caesare.com>wrote: > Running IE8 on XP (2 separate boxes), I get problems with new taps > “hanging” when opened. That the “loading” indicator will sit there and spin, > but I never get any content. Now if I copy and paste that address in to > another tab, it will load just fine. > > > > It often seems to be every other tab, up to a point (i.e. tabs 1, 3 and 5 > will work, tabs 2 and 4 will hang). But once I get up to 7-8 tabs nothing > works. > > > > I originally suspected DNS, but all my testing seems fine, and Firefox > doesn’t seem to suffer the same problem. My IE8-on-Vista installation seems > fine too (although on a separate net). > > > > My Google-fu seems to indicate this was a known problem with the RC, but > that it got fixed for release… > > > > -sc > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
