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I have several email accounts I can access from Internet Explorer or Mozilla. One of them is my business email which is provided through some....well...er...provider. Anyway, when I log off while using Mozilla, nothing unusual happens. When I log off using IE, I get a box with the following error message:
Microsoft Internet Explorer
IEPNGFix: Children of positioned element are unclickable.
<DIV id=logout_containerz
Then a button that says OK.

Any thoughts as to why this happens in IE and not Mozilla? I never had this happened back when I used IE only. It seems to have started after I installed Mozilla and imported my favs from IE.
"If you look to me for illumination, you better have a flashlight!"
What version of IE are you using? Clicking on Help Menu > About, should tell you. If you are not running IE version 8 or above then you might need to upgrade.

-Cub. =o)
That is by far the most bewildering error I've ever heard of.

-Fred
Pirates, vampires, zombies, ninjas, ghouls, aliens, goblins, monsters, robots, sorcerers, undead, werewolves, demons, mutated dinosaur-cyborgs and those pesky phone salesmen! The shotgun is a one-size-fits-all solution!
Tell me about it, Fred. The good thing is I just hit OK and it's OK. Boy, that's a bit redundant...and stupid!

Dear Cub,
What does an ill-literate computer guy like me do when he gets an email to upgrade to IE 8? He thinks, "Hey! That's not a bad idea!" So I try to upgrade, my computer totally crashes, I had to hire a computer repair service, paid them $400.00 to repair my hard drive (fortunately they were able to save most of my files), and they tell me that IE 8 upgraders have experienced several problems. I say, "Gee, thanks a lot. I'll shut the door to the barn now that the horse is loose."
Sincerely,
JTOG

All kidding aside, that is what actually happened. So, I'll put up witht he error message before I EVER try to upgrade IE. Still, thanks for your input as always. I know you have my best interests at heart.
"If you look to me for illumination, you better have a flashlight!"
Jim,

IMHO, there is no reason whatsoever to use IE when you can use Mozilla, unless, say, you are trying to download from a site (like Microsoft, amazingly) that insists you use IE. (1) It's an inferior product. (2) Because it has such a large user base, tons more malware is written to penetrate IE than to attack Mozilla.
Why did the chicken cross the Moebius strip?
To get to the other...uh
You are right, Harry. After my computer crashed some months ago, the tech recommended Mozilla and I've been using it more than IE lately.

However, there are two occassions when I use IE.
1. My company's monitoring website allows me to view more info via IE than Mozilla. I'm not sure why, it just does.

2. Sometimes I will be browsing the net or visiting this board in IE while listening to my favorite youtube bookmark music using Mozilla.

I have found that Mozilla is faster and more expedient than IE and that is a good thing.
"If you look to me for illumination, you better have a flashlight!"
I was told by Microsoft not to upgrade to IE8 (about ten months ago, granted) because it had errors in it. I'm sure that they've sorted that out now, but I have noticed that my fiance's site looks very different when you look at it with different browsers. Is it just one site that's causing the problem or does it happen when you quit from various sites?
David
Good ? DL. It happens at my company's email site, a server of some sort set up by my son.

Interestingly, as mentioned above, some info is inaccesible from Mozilla and can only be seen when using IE. That happens to be a very secure website where we can look into our customer's account and view data pertinent to their alarm systems. Strange, but true.
"If you look to me for illumination, you better have a flashlight!"
This is one of the reasons why I have always HATED web development. No matter what you do, there is always something that will not turn out the way you wanted on a particular browser. This is probably why I have embraced Flash so much, because nobody seems to agree on a set of standards for HTML. This is the reason why each browser shows you something different Jim: every single manufacturer thinks their way is the best way for translating and displaying the content on a website.

This is another reason why I can't stand people who say that flash is a "bad" platform. At least with Flash it uses it's own system, which is represented the same way regardless of what browser you are using. Sure, this so called new HTML-6 (the successor to HTML) is supposed to be the bees kneez that will take over the web wolrd (and Flash)... but based on their track record with the current generation of HTML I am not confident they will find a common ground with it, thus elliminating all the issues they currently seem incapable to fixing.