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In IE8 I was testing a form. When I got to a drop-down(just a basic HTML one, no special CSS or JavaScript) it triggered IE’s inbuilt pop-up blocker, I tried numerous times with the pop-up blocker enabled and disabled. I also turned all of IE’s security settings down to the lowest they’ll go.

Still no luck.

I tried another one of my sites. Same thing.

[Panicking] Is this something I’d inadvertently coded into all of my sites. Was I going to be getting phone calls from angry clients asking me why their forms don’t work in IE’s latest Super Browser?

I quickly did a google image search, they’ve got the new drop-down filtering system. I’ll see if this works.

It triggered the pop-up blocker. That’s good news. It’s crappy IE and not my code!

So what’s the problem?

After doing various google searches, it seems there’s a few solutions. Although I haven’t had time to try any of them out.

  1. The first fix would be to unistall IE8. Then when you reinstall it, disable your antivirus. You can turn it back on after it’s been installed.
  2. The second says ‘Remove any additional plugins installed’. The only plugin I have installed is the M$ developer tools.

Like I said, I haven’t checked if any of these actually do fix it.

This isn’t good practice from the worlds largest browser developer. It has the potential to put businesses out of pocket through a loss of transactions. Which isn’t good in these economic times.

M$ as allways need to get their ass into gear!