URL Link errors

[Storm13]

Links....

Ok, it's not just this site for me (but it does happen here), so it's obviously something with my laptop, or with IE 8 itself. Many pages that have URL links won't let me click the links. I get an error warning in the lower left corner. Details below. Any ideas?

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6.3; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET CLR 3.0.30618; Media Center PC 5.0; QS 4.2.2.3; SLCC1)
Timestamp: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:01:01 UTC


Message: Can't move focus to the control because it is invisible, not enabled, or of a type that does not accept the focus.
Line: 50
Char: 3
Code: 0
URI: http://g0re.net/forums/styles/g0resilve ... /editor.js

[darkness]

Looks like some sort of java error. That'd be my guess.

[TC]

that's extremely strange. are you running any plugins like noscript? how long has this been happening?

[Storm13]

I just noticed it on this site yesterday. It's been happening on other places for a week or two at least. After I noticed it happening, I updated to a newer javascript (Version 6 Update 17) and still had the problems. No plugings intentionally running. Just for the hell of it, I used the Internet Explorer (no add-ons) on my laptop and still get the same problems with links.

[jcdc]

try firefox or chrome and see if you have the same problem.

[darkness]

try firefox or chrome and see if you have the same problem.

I use IE8 and I have no problems with links here.

[Draesk]

I use IE8 and I have no problems with links here.

Still, it should confirm if the problem is with his laptop, or his build of IE8 in specific.

[Storm13]

Firefox works fine. It's just IE8 that's giving me troubles.

[Storm13]

<guess since this isn't really a site support issue, feel free to move the thread>

With a little more investigation, the javascript error I quoted has nothing to do with the links not opening. There's a fair amount of stuff out there about ie8 not opening links, and fixes for that by reregistering some dll files. I keep getting error messages on some of those regsvr32 actions. Since IE8 is part of Windows 7 I can't see a way to just uninstall/reinstall IE8. I'd have to do a repair install of Windows 7 which I'd rather not do.

Microsoft sucks.

[Storm13]

I'm fixed!!

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/InternetExplorer/thread/e312e580-1cbc-496b-8c6b-b69b8535a7bb

After a long time searching and trying different solutions, I finally came across this gem. If/when anyone else starts having problems with Windows 7 and IE8, you can thank me later for doing all the legwork searching for you...

[TC]

nice work!