>>>Hi everybody,
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>>>I'm not sure if something is wrong in my particular environment, but I've noticed that at the certain point when I try to open a new tab (or new window) in IE 8 it says loading, but never being able to open the page. Yet I can open this page in FireFox no problem.
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>>>Usually I had to close IE (all instances) to fix this problem.
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>>>Have you noticed something like that?
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>>If you have a lot of tabs/instances open, Google [ie too many tabs]
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>I have ~9 tabs. I closed one and was able to open a link I was trying to open unsuccessfully before. So, do you have the same behavior?

I don't know, I only use IE for those situations that absolutely demand it. I don't think I've had more than one instance open, with at most two tabs active, for years.