Why am I getting error messages when I visit certain web pages?

[Fazzman]

Hello,

I am not even sure if I am in the right forum..but here goes. I recently downloaded MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components). A particular program which I was running apparently required it. Ever since that dreaded day I have been cursing Microsoft (all right maybe I started a bit before then..). When I visit a web page with some sort of errors on it a little dialogue box appears and states that 'there is an error on such a line etc etc.' Do you want to debug?'. In most cases I just press no and it lets you get on with your life, but on some occassions it just locks up my whole system. On one occassion I said 'Yes' to debugging and it brought up the culprit. I have since then deleted what I thought the offending program was and ANY program/file that vaguely resembled it or had any ties with it! Unfortunately the errors still appear when I visit some web pages but now I can not debug them (not that I wanted to in the first place). What is causing these errors to appear? How can I stop them from appearing??

Many thanks for your time guys!!!

 

[joegz]

You are taking about apples and oranges here. MDAC is a software update for your ODBC drivers which will allow whatever program you are using to communicate with a database. This could range from a program communicating to anything from a local Access or Excel database file to and Oracle or SQL database on a server. This will have nothing to do with the errors you are getting from your browser.

The browser errors are Javascript errors you are receiving from the web page. These usually reflect bad JavaScript code by the web designer and not reflecting any bad performace from your browser. Your browser is only telling you it can't do what the code is calling for.

I don't know which browser version you are using but you usually can supress these errors from TOOLS - INTERNET OPTIONS - ADVANCED and uncheck the option "Display a notification about every script error"

Cheers joegz
"Sometimes you just need to find out what it's not first to figure out what it is."

 

[bonusmarch]

Go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced tab -> Disable script debugging.