Just ran across another issue with the worst browser in the world…
Here’s the vague error message:
Could not complete the operation due to error 800a03e8
It’s likely due to JavaScript executing before the page has finished loading (and more than likely, the JS was trying to manipulate the DOM).
It took a few minutes for me to get this debugged, because IE wasn’t giving me any additional error information. It was throwing this error, and then telling me that it couldn’t load the page.
It’s amazing how much I disdain Internet Explorer, after using good browsers such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Hopefully someday IE will catch up with the rest of the modern browsers and give you tools (better than the terrible “Developer Toolbar”) to help developers debug sites quicker.
Hi there, I have exactly the same issue and my internet pages are not loading! When I check the problem it says that it cannot complete because of error 800a03e8.
How do I fix this? I am not technical at all and I have no idea why I have this problem on my laptop now? Please help, thank you so much
There is probably JavaScript that is trying to do something before the page has finished loading.
Visit this page: http://code.google.com/p/domready/ and download the domready.js. Then copy the example <script> tags into your <head>. Find the JavaScript on your page and move it into the place where the example is alert()’ing, and remove the alert().
That should do it. :)
I’m getting the same error message. Error on page or done with errors on page. It says something about google ads and gives me error 800a03e8. It’s not letting me open messages or anything on the webpage. Some of the links won’t work either. I saw the comment you posted about the javascript but I don’t know what “Then copy the example tags into your .” means. Can you help me please. :)