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Users are getting frequent through intermittent "Internet Explorer cannot open the site: operation aborted" when accessing core functions - particularly when updating activities. For instance they have booked in a meeting with someone, held the meeting and go back into the system to write up the meeting notes and change the status of the meeting.

From searching around I realise that this is a problem with IE7 that occurs when a script tries to append to the DOM before it is all loaded.

This code snippet seems to fix it:

Event.observe(document, ‘dom:loaded’,
function init() {
–OLD JAVASCRIPT CODE GOES HERE–
}, false
);

And there are other examples of fixes out there

This seems to be a good round-up:

http://www.garyharan.com/index.php/2008/04/22/internet-explorer-cannot-open-the-internet-site-operation-aborted/

Thing is that I am unwilling to start hacking into core code when I really don't know what I am doing.

Any signs of a fix... Or any way of finding all the code that could be tripping this bug in IE7?

And yes I wish I could get rid of MS and tell everyone to use firefox and a nix OS, but I can't - users access the system from other people's offices.

Fixed IE7 related issue on Activity form, this fixes will be part of CiviCRM v2.1.3 or you can get the fixes from:
http://fisheye.civicrm.org/changelog/CiviCRM/?cs=18719

Hth

Kurund

you might want to try to upgrade to 2.2.beta3 and see if that addresses the issue

lobo

2.2 will go stable in 1-3 weeks. we expect there to be at least one more beta release

check the wiki for joomla upgrade instructions

lobo