On Mon, 20 Apr 2015, Mike Luther wrote to All:

 MikeL> As I've commented, I use only one Windows unit for research 
 MikeL> purposes only. I've noticed that I get a recently introduced 
 MikeL> lockup in IE 8 latest whatever with it when a single site 
 MikeL> attempts to use Javascript.  Takes a good while to get IE 8 to 
 MikeL> even close and it does not even close properly but attempts to 
 MikeL> send Microsoft the error data.  Which in that M/S doesn't 
 MikeL> 'support' the WIN XP stuff 'no mow', I don't send it that data.

is it only one site that you are having a problem with? it may be crappy
javascript or it could be a malware infestation trying to get in... do you
block ads? the ad networks get infiltrated at times and start spewing
malware stuffs... if you can provide the url of the site, i can try to take
a look at it... have you tried a different browser? firefox (with
adblockplus and noscript) or chrome or opera?

 MikeL> I've seen comments in my other pile of information sites that 
 MikeL> there have been major error issues relative to what was said as 
 MikeL> Windows operation and that that has included serious issues 
 MikeL> with Java that as commented have been addressed by Java 
 MikeL> whomever.  Nothing has showed up in this test unit as to any 
 MikeL> Java update however.  Any thoughts on this?

the first thing to understand, which you might already know and that many
do not, is that java and javascript are two different things and don't have
anything to do with each other... javascript is actually ECMAscript... java
is a whole different beast...

SUN used to handle java but now Oracle owns it... looking at their site,
since XP support was discontinued, java on XP is also no longer
supported... apparently the last java that ran on XP was java 7 which users
can still run at their own risk but no support will be given for XP and
older...

java 8 update 45 is the latest but only for vista and up winwhatever
variants, Mac OS X, Linux and 64bit Solaris and Solaris SPARC...

 MikeL> I'll note that this unit does have the 2015 Global Protection Panda
 MikeL> product on it for virus and malware.  Which has not interceded on
 MikeL> any of this issue at this point.

check your panda settings and see if it is silently blocking that script or
site... i don't use panda and certainly none of anyone's global protection
firewall, filters, scanners... i much prefer to use my own choices and get
multiple opinions about questionable files and sites if/when i run into
them but that's not very often for me and the stuff i'm interested in ;) 

 MikeL> Any thoughts on this?

i dunno? :lol: 

)\/(ark