IE8 Vista : This tab has been recovered, looping

Woh, i have been running into lot of issues lately and here is one more. Since yesterday morning whenever I start IE8 on Vista, ok i have to use IE because the website that i want to access to connect to corporate network can run Juniper NetConnect only with IE.

I see this message "This tab has been recovered" when i start IE 8 on my laptop running Vista. It keeps happening in a loop making IE 8 unusable. However one can start IE in Add-ons disabled mode as Start -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Internet Explorer (No Add ons) and the problem disappeared. So looks like one of add on is causing IE to fail.

Well, at least I was able to get IE working again (Big deal huh !) but unfortunately running in Add on disabled mode means Net Connect addon will be disabled and I cannot connect to corporate network .... it would be sensible for Juniper to support Net connect to support Firefox if not chrome as working with just one browser means single point of failure, bad kitty.

One simple solution to the looping problem is to disable all the add-ons from Tools -> Manage Add ons and guess what, it worked. Back to work :)