[Kr0nos]

I just installed IE7 on a Windows laptop running XP SP 2, only to find out that it won't display any webpages (same with Firefox). The strange thing is that the machine is connected to the internet via a LAN connection (through an Airport extreme station) and Thunderbird works fine.

I reverted back to IE6 and everything works the way it's supposed to. What could be the problem here?

[Kr0nos]

Okay, it was the firewall blocking webbrowsers trying to connect to the interent. Sadly, there were no pop-ups or warnings that this might happen. Only when I turned off the firewall and back on again, it asked me wether I should allow the app to connect.

Now that I've got IE 7 up and "running" a couple of odd things are happening. Whenever I try to "manage the favorites" or do a find (ctrl + f), the browser will display a dialogue box saying "a script error has occured on this site...", eventhough there is no site loaded in the browser.

What "scripts" does IE execute to do a "search" or to manage "favorites"? - The joys of web development with IE on Windows.