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IE deserves a very special place in the software hell dungeon 
censored Microsoft, censored censored censored censored you
Okay, because my current customer uses Microsoft Outlook web app - I have to as well. I would use desktop outlook, but the last time IT "helped" me make it work with Exchange, well, it wasn't pretty.
So, I'll have IE up - maybe 4 or 5 tabs (something going on in the background iow), I'll be 90% done with an email in the web app, and bammm - IE has stopped responding. There goes my email.
I have all patches, and I am running the latest. I DO have ad blocker on, and I am wondering if this is payback?
I'm stuck with using IE for the time being - anyone have any debug suggestions?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: I DO have ad blocker on
Might one respectfully suggest that you try it with it not on then, you degenerate, Internet wrecking freeloader! 
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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This is exactly why I don't use Edge... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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griff - it's not edge, it's IE11. Edge is worse, as I'm stuck in plain text. Hell, guess I could go back to unix email. You know, those days where you could not get a virus from opening an email? 
I'll try and turn off ad blocker and see what happens. Of course, all the popups might make me punch my laptop, so it's a trade off.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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My Ad-Blocker (admittedly, part of FireFox), allows you to create a whitelist of sites. That could be a tad better than just turning the thing off (at least after your test).
But, as noted in Basildane's post, OWA works in other browsers: I use it in FireFox. It still sucks, mind you, but it works. In particular, the time-out is way too short so I end up having to log in after composing an email: twice.
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lol, dang it, coffee off the keyboard...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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There is no reason to use IE just because you are using OWA. I run several Exchange installations and I have never used IE with them. I use FireFox when I need to test OWA.
And what was the problem you had with Outlook? If autoconfigure is properly configured on the server, you should just type in your email address and password and it just works.
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I don't run the server, I just have to use it. Company just updated to Exchange 2010. I was told that if you want some of the formatting, etc. IE was the only way to go. That said, the problem is that IE11 crashes constantly (2-3 times a day). If I'm in the middle of a long email, it's gone.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Small thermo nuclear device?
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Write your email in notepad and quickly c&p it into Outlook. 
Marc
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You know Marc, that's just sad. I had the same thought.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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That's not "sad", that's the voice of experience.
It's exactly what I do if I find myself on a machine that doesn't have a proper email client installed.
[Edit] It's also what I recommended to a buddy of mine who somehow kept "accidentally" finding the Back button's keyboard shortcut when composing a long email in a browser.
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It'll be a long time still before I move away from a proper email client app running locally and I start writing email in a browser, for anything more than a one-line reply.
I'm pretty sure I posted the exact same message somewhere 10+ years ago.
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charlieg wrote:
So, I'll have IE up - maybe 4 or 5 tabs (something going on in the background iow), I'll be 90% done with an email in the web app, and bammm - IE has stopped responding. There goes my email.
Since you know this is going to happen, why not compose your email in Notepad, then copy/paste it into IE and click Send?
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The point of this post was to rage (and wonder if anyone else has "internet explorer stopped working" issues with possibly ad blocker. Not work around it 
Anyway, I'll file another support request to see if I can get desktop outlook working again.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Learn the outlook API's and write your own client.
i cri evry tiem
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I use IE (8.0.7601.17514) to a very successfully add-free view of most everything I need to see on a day to day basis.
My take on advertisement flashes and video (censored (you got that right teatote)) is that the first idiots onboard any new version of a programming paradigm that ups their ability to blind users landing on their site is a paradigm they want to deploy immediately.
Not kidding.
Now a cat ... but, hey.
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Have you tried blocking ads with your hosts file? It works for all browsers with no extra software installed.
Hosts file ad blocking[^]
Hogan
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nah, the point is not that I'm blocking or not blocking ads. The point is that IE should NOT be going tits up with public apis. we're assuming that its the ad blocker.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I give up! How DO you give a guinea pig a bath? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Don't know yet - I'm still trying to decode "86431 baths (2008 estimate)"...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You can't just go ahead and bath a guinea pig. You need to perform some tests on the heat of the water...using some Guniea pigs.
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Like this![^] Ah, t'Interwebz. What would we do without them?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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