I'm having a problem with IE8 where sometimes when it creates a new tab, it will fail toload anything in it. This is happening on Vista 32-bit ultimate, not Win 7, but I was advised to post about it here.The URL doesn't matter at all, nor does the content of the page. A simple "hello world" page in pure HTML will fail just as easily as a huge monster page with 20 embedded Flash objects and javascript everywhere.You can enter the URL into the address bar of another tab and it will work fine there. But if youtake an URL *from* another tab where it was working fine, it will fail to load in the borked tab.When this happens, I notice that one of the IEXPLORE.EXE processes listed in the task manager shows markedly less memory usage than the others. I'm guessing that this is the failed tab.Perhaps there is a memory allocation problem during the creation of the tab that is preventing it from loading anything. One would think it would throw an error message and close the tab, but that's not happening. Instead, you just get a useless tab that won't load anything.The memory allocation speculation is based on the idea that this usually seems to happen when there are already several tabs open.I've seen other descriptions of the same problem elsewhere on the web, like here:http://www.winvistatips.com/opening-link-new-tab-ie8-sometimes-fails-load-t420874.htmlHowever, I've not seen any information about a fix.Please, can you give it a bit ol' wet Microsoft Kiss and make it better?

Use Process Explorer to view the running processes, and see if the iexplore.exe processes are grouped into a "tree" (one process started the other). That may solve why 1 iexplore.exe uses less memory. Also, IE does not open a new process for every new tab (I've seen from experience of 20-30 blank tabs open that there were about 3 or 4 iexplore processes) Try a reset of IE and see if the helps. Go to Tools, Internet Options, Advanced Tab->Reset Button Hello! Please try every solution given to your problem...and reply back with its results... - JoelbX

Use Process Explorer to view the running processes, and see if the iexplore.exe processes are grouped into a "tree" (one process started the other). That may solve why 1 iexplore.exe uses less memory. Also, IE does not open a new process for every new tab (I've seen from experience of 20-30 blank tabs open that there were about 3 or 4 iexplore processes)Try a reset of IE and see if the helps. Go to Tools, Internet Options, Advanced Tab->Reset Button Hello! Please try every solution given to your problem...and reply back with its results...- JoelbX Hi Joel, I appreciate your response, but the fact that a particular IEXPLORE.EXE process uses less memory than others was simply offered up as a clue that might provide insight into the ultimate problem, not a problem that required solving in its own right. Doing a "reset" of IE was something I tried when I first saw this problem... it makes no difference.Sean Zhu,why would you mark his message as an "answer" when you have no idea if my problem was solved or not?

You missed my point entirely. Try looking in Process Explorer, and list which iexplore process are grouped in a tree, and what memory they are taking up. Or better yet, just post a screenshot of the iexplore processes P.S. The moderator on these forums are a little too trigger-happy with the answer button. They mark everything as answers!Hello! Please try every solution given to your problem...and reply back with its results... - JoelbX

Joel, I guess I *am* missing the point, because I really don't SEE the point.I already said that when IE shows this problem, there's a particular IEXPLORE process that isn't using as much memory as the others. I've seen this in both the Task Manager and in the Process Explorer program. Posting a screen shot is just a visual representation of what I already said, andI don't see how itis going to provide any significantly greater insight into the ultimate problem. Don't get me wrong... the next time I see the problem I'm more than happy to run PE and get a screen shot. I just don't see what it's going to accomplish. It certainly doesn't suggest anything that will make the problem go away.Assuming, not with any great certainty, that a process using less memory is a sign that something went wrong, there's still a wide variety of possibilities. It may not have been a failed memory allocation, per se, that stalled the process. While it's possible that the process did get an allocation failure, it's also possible that some other failure occured during the early stages of initializationbefore ithad allocated much RAM.

In Process Explorer, out of the tree of processes, which one is the the one with less memory? The one that started the tree, or a process inside the tree? That is my point.Hello! Please try every solution given to your problem...and reply back with its results... - JoelbX

Mike, I have the same problem with IE8: a lot of the 'sessions' you open seem to be born dead. Not only tabs often don't work at all, also after first starting IE8 it somtimes doesn't work. Opening loads of tabs always leads to some tabs working at some point. I now have Firefox installed as an ultimate solution, but it shouldn't be needed, IE8 needs to be fixed! Edit: Win7 64 here. I wish we could install IE7 on Windows 7... :/

Mike and Exar77,This seems to be a generic problem with IE8. In my case, IE8 won't open the first tab, but will populate every other tab after that. I'm running Vista 64 with the 32-bit version of IE. 64-bit version does the exact same thing. This problem also seems random (although it happens more often than not). Sometimes IE8 will show the default home page and sometimes it won't. I have installed all Vista updates. I have switched over to using Firefox 3.5as my standard brower. Microsoft seems to be just ignoring the problem.IE7 never had this problem.Rick

I have had the problem with Internet Explorer 7 also, just not nearly as often. I have a Compaq laptop with Vista 32 bit installed. I have notalways had the problem. I don't remember exactly when it started but it was early this year. I downloaded Internet Explorer 8 hoping it would solve the problem but then it was happening a lot. I uninstalled Internet Explorer 8and it went back to the same as it was the first time with IE 7; not as often but still not right. Now I installed Windows 7 RC hoping the problem would go away by doing that. It came with Internet Explorer 8 so the problemis worse again. I have been using Google Chrome and have had no issues with it working properly but I would really like this issue withIE8to be fixed. It is very annoying when you are browsing the internet and need that link you clicked to open. Especially if you are submitting an order or making a payment.

Does anyone solve this problem????!!!! Cant fix this... I tried evereything......

dats very simple guys............whnever u open up a new tab in internet explorer 8, u will see a process named "dllhost.exe" dat pops up in taskmanager.Just goto task manager nd select that process nd end that process.Ur tabs will work fine now.Check it nd confirm it.this prblm is also seen in windows 7 x64 versions.But da only prblm is every time u open a new tab da stupid process creeps up again.......der should be some fix for it.just end this process nd ur tabs will work just fine.http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/8872/captureza.jpg

Has anyone from Microsoft looked into this? I have this same problem on 4 different PC's running Windows 7 and IE 8.

I had this problem where ie8 was slow to open and then would not open new tabs or windows from a link. I was using ie8 32bit and tried ie8 64bit this worked perfectly until I installed java 64bit. After installing java the new tab thing started with ie8 64bit aswell. I uninstalled java and ie8 worked again. I have now uninstalled java 32bit and now ie8 32bit works perfectly again. I hope this can be of help for more people.

Similar problem on Win 7. I do have the latest x32 Java version installed, which I apparently need for MP3Rocket and certain web sites. Symptoms: 1) About 20% of the time, IE explorer x32 will do nothing when I click on it. 2) abt 20% of the time the window wiill be blank or show 'connecting' and that's it. I have to use task manager to get rid of it; it stops responding. When it does open, it MAY open very slugishly. 3) I have problems opening a tab. Again it just sits there in 'connecting' status. Task manager is the only way to continue. I can not find any rhyme or reason for the random lack of response. IE explorer x64 works like a champ, but I have not loaded Java x64 as I have no need for it. I've started to use IE explorer x64 more and more because of the above problems. Since there appears to be a common thread of Java being the problem, I am going to go to the Java site and look for simiar postings. If I find none, I may just post one. Any further comments????

Similar problem on Win 7. I do have the latest x32 Java version installed, which I apparently need for MP3Rocket and certain web sites. Symptoms: 1) About 20% of the time, IE explorer x32 will do nothing when I click on it. 2) abt 20% of the time the window wiill be blank or show 'connecting' and that's it. I have to use task manager to get rid of it; it stops responding. When it does open, it MAY open very slugishly. 3) I have problems opening a tab. Again it just sits there in 'connecting' status. Task manager is the only way to continue. Of course, there as another problem with IE explorer x32 failure, I lose my help functions with Office as they are web based. This may force me to drop Java even though it means I lose my classical music from MP3Rocket. I can not find any rhyme or reason for the random lack of response. IE explorer x64 works like a champ, but I have not loaded Java x64 as I have no need for it. I've started to use IE explorer x64 more and more because of the above problems. Since there appears to be a common thread of Java being the problem, I am going to go to the Java site and look for simiar postings. If I find none, I may just post one. Also because of the age of this thread, no one may look at it. I am thinking refiling a new thread with the above symptoms. Any further comments????