>>I noticed today that whenever I am opening VFP 9 I see a message briefly (while VFP 9 is loading): "downloading from about:blank". What is it all about? Is it some kind of MSFT spyware inside VFP?
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>WHen internet explorer loads by default there's no document loaded in the browser. So if you have an application that needs to create a document or manipulate the document object you NEED TO HAVE A DOCUMENT of some sort.
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>about:blank is a base page you can use to start with.
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>It's commonly used if you program IE to load a blank page so that an application has a document to work with.
I understand now. Thank you so much for your explanation.
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