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Well - IE8 has been running fine until recently.

The problem is when I visit certain web sites I get the following message appear in a separate box: "Internet explorer cannot open the internet site http://www.somewebsite.co.uk. Operation aborted"

Now the web page has loaded up - but when I click on OK on the box (which I have to do in order to continue), I now get the message "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" and the page now goes blank as if I'm not connected to the internet.

The websites in question are fine as I downloaded firefox and they work fine with firefox. Plzz don't tell me to just carry on using firefox - I'm used to IE (plus I want the satisfaction of fixing it as well!!)

I tried uninstalling IE8. It uninstalled but I still had IE7 which I couldn't seem to find where to uninstall (maybe I didn't look hard enough??), then I re-installed IE8 ..... did it work ...... well I wouldn't be here asking for help if it did !!!

Anyone any ideas plzzz ????

a lot of your problems could be related to microsoft limiting the number of open connections you can have, for your security of course, I had several page errors untill I changed the tcip open size from 10 to 500, now everything is as it was before service pack 2.
microsoft says its to stop the spread of viruses and worms but thats what they try to flog you security packages for isn't it.

http://www.megaleecher.net/Tcpip.sys_Patch_To_Increase_Windows_XP_Connection_Limit everytime windows updates you will need to recheck it hasn't limited you again, so far theres been no flags from all the security programes I run and the functionalitys back to the good old days so seems to be an ok thing to do.

Well I've found the problem - just need a solution now.

I posted this on another forum and someone wrote:

From what I've read so far, this occurs when javascript tries to access part of the DOM that hasn't been rendered yet. One way to confirm this would be to disable active scripting (Tools -> Internet Options -> Security -> Custom Level, scroll down to the bottom for active scripting) and try the problem site. If it loads without the error, re-enable active scripting and try the problem site again. If it gives the error, you've got your culprit. As for a permanent fix if that's the issue, I don't know. But that should give you enough info for others who might be more familiar with the inner workings of IE8.

Well I tried what it says and the website loads up when active scripting is disabled.
Just for the record, the website I'm having issues with is http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/

.... and when I re-enable it I get the same error.

Any ideas how to fix this without having to keep active scripting disabled ???

Huh, weird, I just tried the website out on my test version of IE8 and everything seems to work fine. I assume you get the error on the front page?

You can't uninstall and reinstall IE because it's part of Windows. IE9 is now out so give that a shot and see what happens

Alternatively it's not a problem to disable active scripting... nobody ever uses it anyway

That site works fine for me as well, I'm using Crazy Browser and very rarely get problems with it.

Works fine in Opera as well. And Opera seems to annoy Javascript like nothing on earth, so the Javascript on that page can't be all that picky.

It's also working OK with my Internet Explorer 8, which hasn't been tweaked in any way since I don't generally use it.

I'd try either reinstalling IE8 or else getting IE9. Maybe something small has been corrupted.