Today i have installed google drive but i couldn't get to sign in because i had a blank sign in page. I have discovered looking on the internet that it uses IE core to show web pages (as described here: Can't sign in to google drive (UI is blank) )
So i have opened Internet Explorer (which i never use) to check if something was wrong and i have discovered that it won't load content from google and other sites.
I can go on some websites just fine, at first i thought i couldn't go on websites which had content from google (such as google analytics code) but then i realized that wasn't true.
i can go on bing, but not google (tried maps, gmail and drive) nor yahoo (tried yahoo answers too). There is a case where i can go on a site but not on a subdomain of that site (which made me first think that i couldn't reach sites with google analytics).
The page remains stuck on "Waiting for google.com" indefinitely, it won't even give me a connection timed out error or something, just keeps loading.
Chrome and Firefox work fine, IE 8 on another PC works fine, and so does IE 11 on another PC
So far I have
Checked:
– firewall (Comodo, Windows firewall is down)
– restricted sites
– hosts file
– i'm not running under a proxy
– i have Google DNS as DNS
– i have no add-ons installed on IE
– Windows update
– enanched protected mode (which wasn't enabled)
Tried:
– rebooting
– clearing cache
– Clearing cache and then rebooting
– I have even tried the "troubleshooting" functionality in the Control Panel but it couldn't find any problem
– reseting IE 11 then rebooting
Best Answer
So, it turned out that the "certain sites" were sites that used a secure connection (https) or that had content coming from a secure site (such as google analytics if you use https as prefix in your code). In "Internet Options" i went to "Content" and clicked on "Clear SSL state". This did the job
More detailed instructions can be found here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967897 where it says "I can't access my bank or other secure websites"