I have been seeing similar behavior. Simply pressing F5 seems to let it connect. It is almost like a race condition where it times out connect attempts before presenting the tab [page].
From: Rob Bonfiglio [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IE8 on XP "Hanging" tabs 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 <[email protected]> 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/> ~
