Quite frequently when running debug mode in Visual Studio 2008 on XP, IE 7 starts up but never loads the web page. It says 'Connecting to site 127.0.0.1' but never actually opens my web page. When this problem happens I'm unable to load any external websites either in that instance of IE (even in a new tab). I can't even open the 'About Internet Explorer' dialog.
If I open another instance of IE, I am able to open my website and the debugger works fine while the remaining 'hung' IE is still open.
It seems to be happening roughly every 5 times I run my project in debug mode. The only way around it at the moment is stopping the debug session and starting it again (which doesn't always work) or opening another instance of IE.
Greatly appreciate any help on this, its driving me mad!