I have a business information blog website set as my homepage. Today when I started up Internet Explorer, the page content would start to load, I’d see all of the text, and then the tab would ‘crash’, stating that the page had caused a problem and it was going to try to reload it. After a couple of attempts at this, I got:
Website restore error. Internet Explorer has stopped trying to restore this website. It appears that the website continues to have a problem.
Instead of taking me in a constant reload loop, IE had given up.
My workaround? Restart Internet Explorer and as soon as the page displayed the blog text, I clicked the red X stop button in IE. This halts any other content on the page fronm loading, and I could read the article and download the linked mp3 file.
I’m not sure what on that page today was having an issue, but secure in the knowledge that it was a reputable website and my computer is up-to-date with functioning security software, this workaround enabled me to do what I needed to do without spending hours hunting for an answer. Most likely, it’s the code on that page and something the website developer would need to address anyway.
Sometimes a workaround IS the best option, instead of finding the root cause. It it happens again with tomorrow’s blog, I’ll notify the site owner.
-SCuffy