Cursor over links closes Internet Explorer (7)
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By moving the cursor over the links on my blog, Internet Explorer shuts down right away. When I’m logged in, however, it doesn’t happen…I’d appreciate if someone could help me.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Not happening for me in Safari or in Firefox.
Log out, clear your browser cache and cookies, restart your browser and then try again to see what happens.
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I’m seeing a few things when looking at your source code.
First, never ever, ever paste directly from MS Word. MS Word does not speak web. It is a word processor designed for print media and it will at some point severely screw up your blog. Use the “paste from word” icon on the lower tool bar in the visual editor so that it can strip out all the junk that Word tries to put in: http://en.support.wordpress.com/microsoft-word/
Second, and I’m not sure why you are doing this, I’m seeing strings of individual works with the italics tag applied to them such as the below:
Bem, oportunamente, resolvi abrir uma lata de sardinha em molho vermelho – sem conotação comunista ou socialista – pra diminuir minha corriqueira fome ansiosa – <em>cara</em> <em>, será </em> <em>que</em> <em> a </em> <em>lata</em> <em> de </em> <em>sardinha</em> <em> dele tem </em> <em>salmão</em> <em>?</em> Enquanto lavava minhas mãos pra tirar o cheiro denunciador do meu hábito alimentar, não consegui evitar a imagem mental de Pôncio Pilatos e aí me perguntei: <em>o </em> <em>presidente</em> <em> </em> <em>lava</em> <em> as </em> <em>mãos</em> <em> </em> <em>como</em> <em> </em> <em>eu</em> <em>?</em>That is another bad thing to do since the browser has to process each and every one of those tags. The proper way to apply italics to a string of words, sentences or paragraphs is to select the entire string, sentence or paragraph, and then apply the italics to it all at once.
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Try the following procedure:
Go to settings > writing and select “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” and click “save changes.”
Next open each page on your main blog page, make one minor change such as adding a space and then deleting it, and then click “update post. WordPress should automatically correct any HTML issues in the posts and fix the issue.
The above will correct a lot of errors, but the issue with IE might be with either the IE installation on your computer itself.
The only other thing I have to offer is to suggest you clear your DNS cache: http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/233/clear_windows_dns_cache/ .
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I’ve got a feeling that IE is simply choking on all the bad code in your blog – the result of pasting from MS Word, and possibly from applying formatting incorrectly. This in the code for ONE single paragraph in one of your posts:
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0pt; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Quando</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> a </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">moda</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">pega</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">, </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">ninguém</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">quer</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">ficar</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> de </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">fora</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">. E </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">em</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> se tratando de </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">políticos</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">, a </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">adesão</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> é </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">virulenta</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">. A </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">bola</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> da </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">vez</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> é </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">ter</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">castelo</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">. </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Mas</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">, </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">não</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> fique </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">aí</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> pensando </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">que</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> é </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">castelo</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> de </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">areia</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">ou</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">aquele</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> dos </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">sonhos</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> de </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">muita</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">gente</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">. É </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">mesmo</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">, </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">mesmo</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">, o </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">castelo</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> dos </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">delírios</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> de </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">muitos</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> de </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">nós</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">. </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Só</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">que</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">esse</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">verdadeiro</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">deputado</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> – </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">não</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> importa o </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">nome</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> – é </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">brasileiro</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> – </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">aí</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> dói, né?! Dói </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">nada</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">! O </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">brasileiro</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> é a </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">velha</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> Pollyanna de </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">mãos</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> dadas </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">com</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">sua</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">, </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">não</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">menos</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">velha</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">, priminha Alice, </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">eternamente</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">, passeando no </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">país</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> das </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">maravilhas</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">. O </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">que</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> parece </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">inconcebível</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> é </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">saber</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">que</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">meus</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">irmãos</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> e irmãs compatrícios </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">que</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">ora</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">são</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> uma, </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">ora</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">são</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> a </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">outra</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">, </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">não</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> conseguem </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">transformar</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> os </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">intermináveis</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">escândalos</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">políticos</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">em</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">atitudes</span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> apartidárias revolucionárias e verdadeiramente democráticas. </span> <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Nós</span> -
I’m really grateful for your help… I’ve learned a lot from the things you’ve suggested… To make a long story short, with regard to all the bad code in my blog, IE found it hard to swallow… Firefox is doing the dirty job now…
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One other point I’ll make is that you need to clean up the posts and get rid of all the MS Word code and errors. If you can’t see the blog in IE, then it is highly likely no one else will be able to either.
At some point if the errors continue to build, other browsers will begin to give up as well.
And one last point. The search engines will only allow so many errors before they quite indexing your site. What that number is no one knows, but I’ve had to clean up a few where the search engines gave up on the blogs. Once I got the errors taken care of and submitted the sites for reconsideration everything was fine.
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Back to square one… By MOVING the cursor over the INTERNAL LINKS is not a problem. The EXTERNAL LINKS, however – at the slightest movement of the mouse over them – MAKE the IE shut down… So, seeing and navigating within my blog is ok, once we shun moving the cursor over the external links…
Well, I’ve opened each page on my main blog page, made some changes and updated each one of them… What else am I supposed to do? Why do only the EXTERNAL LINKS trigger such problem?..
Thanks again for being so solicitous.
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OK, this is just a wild and crazy thought, but go to appearance > extras and make sure that “Enable mShots site previews on this blog” is DEselected. If it was selected, try again.
Also, if you are using IE8, try setting it to compatibility view when on your blog and see if that makes a difference: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/08/27/introducing-compatibility-view.aspx .
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Bull’s-eye!.. I always believe a crazy thought might do wonders… The deselection has given my blog – within the IE 7 environment – a new lease on life…
Thank you very much for what you’ve done for me… I do hope I might be able to help you somehow, someday.
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