Boards has crashed IE 6 times on me today...

logic1

I remember someone else posted a topic on this a while ago and I was getting it from time to time but it crashed my IE 6 times today.

version 5.50.4807.2300IS
cipher-strength: 128bit
Update versions: SP2

It doesn't crash on any other sites.

.logic.

DeVore

Anyone else getting these problems?

It doesnt crash on my 2k box, nor 98 box but I hate using the "it works at *my* desk" line...

DeV.

WhiteWashMan

nope. fine on my NT box, my 98 box and my win2k box.
but then again, i have IE 5.5 on all of them...

Enygma

No problem here (IE 5.5 too).
You haven't recently installed any browser plugins or add-ons lately, Google Toolbar, I've heard that can wreak havoc.

azezil

i'm usin ie5 on a NT box, works fine!

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MiCr0

all your boards are no problem to us

Netscape 6.1
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-GB; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1
This version supports high-grade (128-bit) security with RSA Public Key Cryptography, DSA, MD2, MD5, RC2-CBC, RC4, DES-CBC, DES-EDE3-CBC.

logic1

No nothing new.. strange.. it crashes on both my 2k box and XP box.
Usually when I click the link to a new forum then click on the page before it's loaded fully.

.logic.

Hobbes

yep does that to me a lot.

Either it crashes, or the window just disappears.

I'm guessing it's something to do with the drop down menus and pressing back/forwards or links while it's running.

Also your new adverts are a bit strange. I get a gray box before the picture appears. That normally means applet?

logic1

I can reproduce the crash on tap with three seperate machines here.. while switching to a diff forum keep clicking the white space on the page.

.logic.

DeVore

A man walks into the doctors and says
"Doctor, my arm hurts when I contort it like this..." <does weird movement>

so the doctor says "Then dont do that!".

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um, I dunno if there is much I can do to solve this problem. I cant recreate it, and even if we could, I doubt its anything in our code alone (more likely version differences in windows betweem us). Even if we did recreate it, its probably an IE bug then a html/javascript bug.

Can you describe exactly how you crash your machine?

DeV.

dahamsta

I used to have this problem too, it's reproducible by either: a) clicking a link before a page has fully loaded; or b) opening several windows at once. I'm inclinded to think it's a problem with the cookie handler rather anything else, i.e. it's trying to set and get two cookies at the same time and getting confused.

adam

Kix

I'm really only adding to the confusion here but I have had IE5.5 windows freeze on me when they've been rendering thread pages in the background, partially covered by the active IE window. I can't get these windows to the foreground and I can't close them without a ctrl-alt-del and killing IE.

K

Hobbes

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by DeVore:
Can you describe exactly how you crash your machine?

DeV.</font>

The following things may happen.

1. You get a page can't be displayed error, or the page comes in corrupted. Which is normally a warning sign it's going to crash.

2. The window just closes. No error message, no nothing.

3. IE crashes with a core dump. I'll email you the core dump next time it happens at home.

I run multiple windows at the same time, so it's possible dahamsta is pointing at the correct problem.

Trojan

Boards kills Netscape 4.76 on me quite a bit.. I'm not in a position to upgrade which is unfortunate.

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Hobbes:
2. The window just closes. No error message, no nothing.

I run multiple windows at the same time, so it's possible dahamsta is pointing at the correct problem.
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Ditto on both those points, I used to browse with 5 or 6 windows on boards, that's may well be the problem, though it crashs with only one window quite a bit for other Netscape reasons.

Al.

Dustaz

Boards never crashes my IE 5.5 on 98 se. What does happen tho is cookies seem to have a mind of thier own so id echo the cookie problem assertion.
I usually start from after hours and work my way down selected forums, but halfway down of reading and hitting back, the cookies reset and all the lightbulbs go out

Hobbes

I would also like to add that the cookies do not work properly with Konqueror.

I have the boards.ie cookies enabled, I can even view the content but the page does not update with the information.

amp

Never crashed my ie6 on WinXP RC1, but I tend not to click white spaces

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richindub2

The boards have allways been fine on my comp too, ie 5.0/5.5/6.0...