I've had a similar problem with IE9 and Win 7.

What happened with me is if it fails during the first attempt then nothing I did would get it to load correctly subsequently. I had to reinstall OS.

However, as everyone else has said why use it.

Firefox/Palemoon use a lot of resources and have a slow start-up time. They're becoming bloated.

Chrome is clearer the most efficient and fastest but there are a number of things that can't be changed. You to like some of it the way it is.