IE6 weirdness...

taff's picture

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Is this just me?

Lately I've found that my status bar in IE6 refuses to function on occasion. I'll get a very brief flash of text and then nothing. Sometimes refreshing the page will fix it, other times not. It does not seem to be confined to any particular sites so I know its not the designer messing with the status bar functionality. In fact, I've encountered it on some of my own sites.

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Abhishek Reddy's picture

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Quote: IE6 weirdness

Tautology. Smiling

I've never encountered this problem before. Changed any settings recently? Installed IE-messing stuff (Google toolbar)? Sad

Time for Mozilla. Wink

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I've never had this happen, I also have the google toolbar and no problems!

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Hehe, This is why I use Mozilla Laughing out loud

taff's picture

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I do have the Google toolbar installed but have had it for some time. This status bar thing is quite recent. Perhaps it is time for a reinstall.

Renegade: I *have* Mozilla along with Opera and 2 flavours of Netscape - none of which have any relevance to my IE problem. Thanks for the input.

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Busy's picture

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I don't have IE6 but seem to remember under the in/unstall option there is a fix errors option or something - maybe I dreamt it?

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Quote: Originally posted by Busy
I don't have IE6 but seem to remember under the in/unstall option there is a fix errors option or something - maybe I dreamt it?

Nah, you didn't dream it, IE6 does have that function when you go to uninstall it.

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I have also noticed every once and a while the status bar just never shows up. Even when you have it set to always come on. My computer does the same thing. It is weird.

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taff's picture

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I got caught up on my updates and installed the SP1 for IE6. For the time being, this seems to have remedied the problem.

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Microsoft has a bug in IE6..and from what your describing,it's sounds like that bug...heres what you do..do a windows update again and if that doesn't work..un-install 6.0 and it will go back to 5.5 and then see if you still have the problem

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