The problem I am having is that IE9 x32 on Windows 7 Home Premium x64 stalls and freezes.
The problem started about a month or so ago. Prior to that, it worked fine. I suspected that this may have started after a "Windows Update" but I have no way to know that.
IE9 x64 has run fine and continues to run fine.
When starting IE9 x32, I get an "about:blank" page as I have configured it.
When browsing to "any" URL, the page will usually load or at least partly load, but will remain non-responsive (stalls) for a long time (2 to 5 minutes or longer), or entirely freezes. While stalled or frozen, the window does not respond to clicks of links on the page, or movement of the scroll-bars. Sometimes, no part of the page is (visibly) loaded and the window remains frozen.
After a sufficient amount of time (usually minutes), the window may become responsive again. The scroll-bars begin to work fine and (for example) control/or/shift-clicking on page links opens the link in a new tab/window works and the (original) page remains responsive... the newly opened page will usually stall or freeze.
Sometimes the page will load fine, or results in only short delays of 5 to 30 seconds, and clicked links will also open fine but this never lasts very long... after clicking to other pages or refreshing the current page it will quickly begin to stall or freeze again.
If I start IE9 x32 in "No-Addons" mode, it will always work fine.
I have tried starting IE9 x32 "normal" mode (WITH Addons) and retested after disabling each addon, one by one, until all are disabled. But, in normal mode it will always (eventually) stall or freeeze even if all addons are manually disabled. Before each retest, I used Taskmgr to end all IE processes first. It does not seem to fail more or less frequently or severely with selected addons enabled or with all addons manually disabled.
Through all of this, IE9 x64 continues to work fine.
I thought about trying to reset/clear the Winsock Catalog but I don't know if this could help or how to do it.
