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This page crashes Internet Explorer, even version 9 and 10.

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Re: This page crashes Internet Explorer, even version 9 and 10.

#22

Post by acqq »

jarito wrote: post #13
salsayarroz wrote: post #8

What was the problem? was it the unclosed tag?

Looks like the crash doesn't happen if you provide the tag, so that looks like it. Edit with more info: Looks like removing any of the markup prevents the crash. "Removing the CSS, the div, the table, etc all cause this code to not crash IE"

The minimal variant with which I repeated the crash was:

    
        #a { margin: 0 10px 10px; }
        #b { width: 100%; }
Removing the second td is enough to make the html not crashing on IE 9. The "crash" manifests itself in some kind of an infinite loop (one thread jumps to 100% CPU and stays so). Then the "recovery" mechanisms kick in, reloading the page, blocking again... :) Can anybody reduce it even more?

Re: This page crashes Internet Explorer, even version 9 and 10.

#24

Post by simonsarris »

InclinedPlane wrote: post #21

On IE 9 on Windows 7 it just causes the tab to load forever. Maybe the bug has been patched?

I have the same setup and clicked "recover" when the option came up, and it crashed the browser then. IE9 is still open, but the cursor is stuck on and clicking anywhere does nothing. I don't even get the "this program has stopped responding" message.

Closing it in any of the normal ways is failing, I had to do end task.

Successive attempts to load the page don't even need for me to click anything for it to crash hard.

Re: This page crashes Internet Explorer, even version 9 and 10.

#25

Post by BobPalmer »

rco8786 wrote: post #16

I don't see why it's such a big deal. Ya I mean it's kind of a dumb thing to cause a browser to crash, but I am sure any browser has a dumb thing here or there that will cause a crash. Seems like we're just trying to pick on IE here.

I'd agree. On a side note, took me about ten seconds of googling to find HTML/Javascript that reliably crashes firefox (but does not crash IE8). I expect Chrome would have similar cases where there could be something that causes crashes (at least, there are bug reports asserting this).

(FYI here's some HTML/JS for the Firefox bug... Resizing the browser caused the issue to manifest in Win7 with FF 13.0.1:)

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd>

http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml>

Test

window.onresize = function () { alert("gg"); };

 

(edited to acknowledge that this is a JS bug). And for the downvotes, at least provide a reason and/or a discussion.

Re: This page crashes Internet Explorer, even version 9 and 10.

#28

Post by mibbitier »

DrJokepu wrote: post #20
haclifford wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, it's unbelievable. End users don't care about incorrect markup, they care about their browser hanging.

Obviously this is a bug in IE that needs to be fixed and it's Microsoft's responsibility to ensure that their browser doesn't crash in invalid input, but end users don't actually care about the browser either (they don't even know what a browser is), they care about your site crashing.

That's incorrect.

If your TV crashed would you blame the TV program you were watching at the time?

People know the difference between software and content. Content should never be able to crash software.

Re: This page crashes Internet Explorer, even version 9 and 10.

#29

Post by DrJokepu »

mibbitier wrote: post #28
DrJokepu wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obviously this is a bug in IE that needs to be fixed and it's Microsoft's responsibility to ensure that their browser doesn't crash in invalid input, but end users don't actually care about the browser either (they don't even know what a browser is), they care about your site crashing.

That's incorrect. If your TV crashed would you blame the TV program you were watching at the time? People know the difference between software and content. Content should never be able to crash software.

I agree with you in that content should never be able to crash software.

I disagree with you TV example, however. If the same TV show repeatedly crashed one of the most popular TV models, consumers would blame the show.

Re: This page crashes Internet Explorer, even version 9 and 10.

#30

Post by jonny_eh »

BobPalmer wrote: post #25
rco8786 wrote: post #16

I don't see why it's such a big deal. Ya I mean it's kind of a dumb thing to cause a browser to crash, but I am sure any browser has a dumb thing here or there that will cause a crash. Seems like we're just trying to pick on IE here.

I'd agree. On a side note, took me about ten seconds of googling to find HTML/Javascript that reliably crashes firefox (but does not crash IE8). I expect Chrome would have similar cases where there could be something that causes crashes (at least, there are bug reports asserting this). (FYI here's some HTML/JS for the Firefox bug... Resizing the browser caused the issue to manifest in Win7 with FF 13.0.1:) http://www…

While close, it's a bit different since JS is needed to crash the browser. The interesting thing about the IE bug is that no JS is required.
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