How to fix IE7 operation aborted error message

The operation aborted error message only happens to IE7 or IE6. If you search on Google, it’s hard to find a solution. Microsoft website would suggest that you should upgrade to IE8 in order to get rid of the error problem. Some other users would suggest you to use other web browser such as Firefox instead.

This problem occurs because a child container HTML element contains script that tries to modify the parent container element of the child container. The script tries to modify the parent container element by using either the innerHTML method or the appendChild method.

This article describes how to fix operation aborted error message on Internet Explorer 7.

Open Internet Explorer.

1. Click the menu Tools -> Internet Options.
2. Click the tab Security.
3. Click the icon Restricted Sites.
4. Click the button Sites.
5. Under Add this website to the zone:
6. Type the text ‘ *.sitemeter.com ’ (with asterisk and dot & without the quotes).
7. Click the Add button. Click Close. Click OK.

Temp fix by disabling the ActiveScript in IE7

1. Click Tools and go to Internet Options
2. Click Security tab on the top
3. While the Internet Zone is selected, click Custom Level button
4. Scroll down almost to the bottom to the Script section, choose Disable Active Scripting.
5. Click Ok to save the settings

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