Need Help with Stalling IE

Hi. I am running Mac OS 10.3.9 and Internet Explorer version 5.2.3.
Today, i started having troubles with IE. When I run the application,
it looks for msn.com but does not successfully load in the page.
Instead, the little spinning mac icon that indicates something is
happening continues to spin. During this time, I can't select a
bookmark or type in a new address in the field at the top of IE. I
therefore can't access any web sites. It was working fine yesterday but
something changed today. In Mac OS 9, I knew, in a case like this, I
could trash the IE preferences files. However, with OS X, I have no
idea if I can trash some files to fix IE's behavior. Does anyone have
an opinion?

Thanks,

Mirsky

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<mirsky-2215C3.16355328012006.TakeThisOut@sn-radius.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>,
Mirsky <mirsky.TakeThisOut@mirsky.com> wrote:

> Hi. I am running Mac OS 10.3.9 and Internet Explorer version 5.2.3.
> Today, i started having troubles with IE. When I run the application,
> it looks for msn.com but does not successfully load in the page.
> Instead, the little spinning mac icon that indicates something is
> happening continues to spin.

You should be able to stop it trying to do whatever it is trying to do
by hitting Cmd-. (That's Command-period. Or try the Escape key, which in
some apps acts as an equivalent.

If it cannot load what you've configured as your homepage, just tell it
to not load a 'homepage' when you open a new window.

[...]

> In Mac OS 9, I knew, in a case like this, I
> could trash the IE preferences files. However, with OS X, I have no
> idea if I can trash some files to fix IE's behavior.

I believe the IE perfs file under Mac OS X is
~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.explorer.plist

You could remove it, but it sounds to me like you might simply have a
network problem (which doesn't even have to be *your* network problem -
could be M$' own servers), in which case the prefs file is irrelavent.

> Does anyone have an opinion?

Surre: upgrade to a browser that is not from the Stone Age. iCab,
Firefox, Opera, Safari, Mozilla, OmniWeb, Camino, whatever. MacIE hasn't
been worked on for some 4 years and has officially been declared dead by
Microsoft. In another 2 days or so they'll even stop offering it for
download.

Now if they'd only do the same with WinIE.

--
Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/%7Etekelenb/>