Webuser Forums: Opening new tabs problem

Wonder if anyone can help. I am having trouble opening new tabs in IE7. This has only started in the last couple of days. What happens is when I click for a new tab the word "connecting" comes up but then it seems to freeze and the tab does not open and I do not get the splash page confirming I have opened a new tab. IE7 then freezes altogether and I cannot close it by clicking the x top right. I have to use task manager and sometimes terminate iexplore.exe from the processes tab as well. As long as I do not try to open a new tab IE7 seems to work ok. I have tried disabling add ons and i thought I had solved it as I appeared to be able to open and close tabs with various add ons disabled, but when I then closed and re opened IE7 the same problem occured although I had not re enabled the add ons. I have not done a virus scan but I am running Norton 360 so I think it is unlikely I would have picked up a virus or spyware that could cause this problem. If any one has any ideas (other than use Firefox!) I would be very grateful.

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