Avoiding those “Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page” in IE8 when editing SharePoint Publishing sites

Just stumbled across this via Randy Drisgill’s blog. It’s nagged me forever, but never had a clue what was going on.

People get this when they are editing their Content Editor Web Parts… not that they are good or anything. Basically IE8 acts a bit different when calling certain JavaScript methods. The quick and dirty fix is to uncheck the Enable native XMLHTTP support option in IE’s advanced options.

Great find! Read the following post for all the details on the issue and a fix.

» IE8 to SharePoint-‘Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page?’

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posted on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 5:37 PM

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# re: Avoiding those “Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page” in IE8 when editing SharePoint Publishing sites 9/17/2009 10:32 PM MBeans

What if Enable Native XMLHTTP Support is already checked? What next? Thx.

# re: Avoiding those “Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page” in IE8 when editing SharePoint Publishing sites 9/18/2009 6:27 AM AC [MVP MOSS]

MBeans-
Re-read my post. You aren't reading closely enough. The posts says to UNCHECK it.

# re: Avoiding those “Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page” in IE8 when editing SharePoint Publishing sites 12/10/2009 2:21 PM Tony Davis

Holy crap... you and Randy are my heros!! lol...

"Saving page content..."
"Saving page content..."

I think I have nightmares about those three words, and my life was a slowly animating Internet Exploder progress indicator, that never progressed.

Thanks a TON guys! :)

# re: Avoiding those “Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page” in IE8 when editing SharePoint Publishing sites 12/18/2010 5:27 PM Tony Woodward

Not IE8, but as of exactly today I am now getting this rubbish in Firefox 3.6.13 too, each time I click on a link! Yet one more mouse click in the drive to give us all carpal tunnel syndrome. At least I haven't got Windows 7 which makes you click twice even if you select or scroll - which is hair-pulling annoying!! In the end I click five or 6 times before I can get the d***ed cursor to stay where I want it. Who are the guys who design these systems anyway? Have they ever tried to use them? Why are they pulling in excessive salaries to re-invent the square wheel when our octagonal one was doing pretty well. Let`s all go back to Windows 3.1 which was just about perfect for everything I wanted to do. It`s been been nothing but downhill ever since. (I admit that Windows 98 was pretty good but nothing will run on it any more).

# re: Avoiding those “Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page” in IE8 when editing SharePoint Publishing sites 2/6/2012 2:55 PM Jonathan

Using IE*, tried your fix of unchecking the Enable Native XMLHTTP but it did not get rid of the "Do you want to navigate..." message. I shut down IE8 and reopened but it still provides the unwanted message. What else do I need to do?

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