Solving “Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site” Error

22 September 2010 24 Comments

You may encounter an error “Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site  - Operation aborted” when trying to open a website that is running a Google API script or a Java Script. This may occur on lower versions of Internet Explorer and to the newly updated ones. This may be a server side or client side issue. So we are attaching here various solutions to solve “Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site.”

Ways to Fix “Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site”:

Modifying Script of Web site to Fix “Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site”
On server side, it may occur when loading a page that is calling a JavaScript within a page. So to workaround with it, you may add defer=”defer” tag to your the script as shown below.

<script defer=”defer” type=”text/javascript” src=”src goes here”>/*your code here*/</script>

Configure Internet Explorer to Fix This Error:
1. Open Internet Explorer
2. Go to top menu,  Tools > Internet Option
3. Select Security tab
4. Select the web content: Internet
5. Click the Custom Level.
6. Look for Active scripting and Scripting of Java applets and Disable them. Click OK to save the settings.