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IE6 closes when certain words typed

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by ejwise May 5, 2003 last reply May 6, 2003

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I run XP Pro with IE6. As soon as I've typed the URL www.gateway.gov.uk in IE6 the browser closes immediately. Similarly, if I type JavaScript the same thing happens. Can anyone suggest a remedy?

I need to contact the government gateway urgently but cannot because of this immediate closure of IE6

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by ryannsit May 6, 2003

Have you tried another keyboard?

by ejwise May 6, 2003

I have three keyboards - tried another without success

by don christner May 6, 2003

That's bizzare! Try going to Google.com and searching for www.gateway.gov.uk. When the results appear, click on the link for www.gateway.gov.uk.

Have you scanned for viruses?

Don

by ejwise May 6, 2003

I had already tried this - still had the problem. As soon as I typed in Google www.gateway. the browser closed

by ejwise May 6, 2003

I have discovered the problem. I had pop-up blocker activated in Tweak-XP. As soon as I disabled this the problem was removed. I don't know why pop-up blocker had this effect - but it sure did!

ejwise

by ejwise May 6, 2003

see above

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