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I've not had this issue personally, but apparently you may get crashes with ie6 and December's Security patches. The quick fix is a registry setting - more details at Jesper's blog who also has a fix to install/push out.

Microsoft have released a virtual pc image that enables you to run ie6 in a supported environment at the same time as having ie7 loaded on the main machine

The homepage at a customer which is checking ie7 compatability was complaining that the website wanted to run name.dll from Microsoft Corporation. Unfortunately the error message doesn't really tell you WHY it needs to run the dll or what functionality you will lose if you don't trust it. BSimser posts that it is the sharepoint presence "magic". Looks like the homepage needs to be added to the trusted sites (although it should be already!). A good candidate for ensuring it is set in group policy I think! Update see Stewed Prunes on how to do this.
Update 2 - Be very careful if you do this. Adding the intranet to the trusted zone could cause the issue "The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted" when you try to connect to a sharepoint server and have added the server to your trusted sites. See this post and scroll down to March 13 2006

I checked this website with the released version of ie7 and was pleased to see that it seems to work ok - the release candidates were having problems with the drop down menus for the categories and date based archives, but the final version works great.

I knew there was a problem with using folder redirection and customizing internet explorer via group policy but I didn't realise there was a hotfix available for it (it's been around for quite some time looking at the date of the hotfix)

I've been puzzling over the missing pictures in internet explorer after the post two before this one had the picture missing. In internet explorer on the main page at absoblogginlutely.net you will get just an empty space where the google map picture is, but if you click on the space you will get taken to the larger image so it really is there.
If you click through to the monthly archive or individual entry the image shows up fine.
I know the problem is partly to do with the align="left" attribute on the image - if I remove this, then the image appears again properly. I know that this should really be styled with css, so I put the float="left" on the image and the image disappears again. If you add the "position=relative" to the css then the image appears again and the text wraps around correctly but if the page is wide the graphic overflows out of the background image and spoils the effect.

There are several posts on the internet that I've found describing my problem but I couldn't find a solution.1 2 3

The following posts were made from a sample posting to demonstrate the problem (I chose a garish yellow background to make it easier to see where everything is). As all these screenshots are hosted on zooomr and I've used the blog picture functionality, which includes styling on each picture posting, these images look ok in this posting but the styling is a pain to type in for each picture and not exactly easy to remember either.
The original posting with an empty picture.

The same posting viewed in firefox - looks great

and in firefox again, extra wide - the image stays within the background box.

Remove the float left and the picture appears in internet explorer

But if I set float=left within css the image disappears again.
Add position="relative" and the image reappears again and looks great

Until I change the width of the browser and then the image bleeds outside of the box.

After installing the live toolbar from Microsoft I was really hoping to have the tabbed browser functionality (the only thing I really needed) but unfortunately it didn't work. I logged a trouble ticket and received instructions to remove the old version and reinstall it. The instructions are in the extended entry, but I only had to remove a couple of toolbars with the windows installer cleanup utility and the msn entries in the registry. After a reinstall, the tabbed browsing option arrived. It's not as nice as tabbed browsing in ie7 or firefox but neither of those two browsers work well with the Lotus Notes webpages we have to use for work.

I think I only got round to installing beta2 last week, and beta3 is out today - this post has details on what is new. No mention on whether the unsupported hack for running ie7 in parallel is fixed within the application though - it would be nice if all it takes is some registry changes!

There's a new zero day exploit for firefox and internet explorer which involves javascript. So if you are running firefox, then installing NoScript will give you added protection. If you are running IE - then ooooooops :-)

Having said that, it doesn't look that malicious - you would have to be tricked into entering data into one page, which can then be sent to the malicious site at the same time, so you are probably only at risk if you do random surfing or surf in dodgy web site areas in the first place - and if you are doing that then I really hope you are not running internet explorer (or as an admin!)

Hmmm - if you view the previous post in internet explorer the first picture of a cartoon is not displayed, yet it works in firefox. Internet explorer seems to treat the align="left" code as display=none for some strange reason. The individual page for the post shows both pictures correctly - any css gurus got any ideas?

Good source of ie7 hints, tips and troubleshooting.

I've finally solved the problem for good, with internet explorer hanging and not working properly (with every page being loaded into firefox) and what I want to know is how come most of you have not read the post on Download squadwhich points to the article and registry fix that explains why you can't run ie7 and ie6 on the same machine anymore without getting the exact symptoms I have been having????
I have spent so long on trying to fix this! If I used IE more often it would have been easier to have pinned it down to a windows update - we only started getting it a couple of days before christmas - about 10 days after the patch was released.

For some reason, any time I enter a url in internet explorer it loads the page open in firefox and not internet explorer. Normally this doesn't bother me but I need to contact Roadrunner support who didn't leave any paperwork behind about my account and their chat support only works with internet explorer(6) - 7 doesn't work but will load new pages up ok.
Any suggestions on how to "fix" ie?

Microsoft have released a beta of IEDevToolbar which works similar to the web developer toolbar for firefox. Worth downloading if you need to use this browser (and you should if you develop web pages to ensure the pages look ok).
Thanks to bink