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>>>>Did you try 'Clear History' ?
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>>>I just did it. Now there is no history and pull-down does not hang the IE. Of course, the downside is that I have to enter web address again. I will see if after I enter a couple, IE will be hanging or not.
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>>Deleting all private data (which is simpler both in Opera and in FireFox, compared to IE - a single command instead of several) often helps resolve tricky browser problems. I had forgotten about that. I wonder whether the history list was getting too long!
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>Don't browsers just take care of the length of these lists by themselves nowadays?
They should, obviously. But based on the description of the symptoms, I wonder whether the browser forgot to do that, in this case.
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