Title says it all. It used to be sporadic, and closing (end task) and re-opening IE once or twice would sort it - but now every time I navigate to the home page my IE locks up tight. This began about the time of the update.

This is in my Windows 2000 workstation at work. IE 6 and the workstation are both fully patched. My Flash is up to date as well, as that is our application platform here.

I've cleared all temp files and cache.

Forums work fine. Other pages work fine. Only the front page is unusable. If I am really fast I can load the page and click the link I want before it freezes.

Any ideas?!

Everything is working fine with IE here...no "freeze ups".

All your browser updates current?

PC and Browser were freshly updated and cache-flushed as stated.

Also tested on:

Win2k3 TS/Citrix session using IE6 with and without GPO's applied

WinXP SP2 laptop using IE7 with and without GPO's applied.

When IE/Desktop Security GPO's are applied, IE6 fails to load Packerchatters.com. IE7 is unaffected.

I have seen no other site that behaves this way. I have no reports from desktop or citrix users of IE freezing up on any site.

Somethin' smells funny. Might just be me who knows?

So IE7 works ok?

If so time to upgrade from IE6 me thinks.

Java code pulling in the main news story is where I would look.

IE 6 is fine.

Javascript maybe you mean? Or whatever IE calls it... Active Scripting or something. I think in IE security settings you can disable it. It's buried pretty well. The problem may also be the way some advertisement is trying to do something as well.

I've been having the exact same problem for some time now. Same setup Windows 2000 and IE6.

I asked our web programmer to look at this briefly and he said he had the same exact issue with java code on one of his pages freezing IE6, which is why I indicated that code as a possible culprit.

As to the security settings, if I am able to figure which one is blowing things up I'll post it here.