IE8 always crashing on one particular website?

Black Panther · Apr 16, 2009, 10:56 AM

Every time I go to a particular website, my IE8 crashes with popup "Encountered a problem and needs to close bla bla bla..."

This didn't happen on IE7, and doesn't happen still on FF.

I got on IE8 from another pc, at work - and the website still crashes - so I don't think it's crashing because of some setting on my own rig...

What could be the reason?
Other websites of the same type and topic work fine on IE8.

(I think it's better not mention the url - it's a site from where I'm downloading some legal stuff mostly mods for Fallout3 - but the site's generally associated with piracy. Other websites with similar connotations work fine though.)

Mussels · Apr 16, 2009, 11:07 AM

Many of those websites crash IE deliberately, in order to make people go to firefox.

Black Panther · Apr 16, 2009, 01:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mussels

Many of those websites crash IE deliberately, in order to make people go to firefox.

But if it's done for that purpose, it'd make no sense for a website to crash only IE8, and not IE7...

Mussels · Apr 16, 2009, 01:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Black Panther

But if it's done for that purpose, it'd make no sense for a website to crash only IE8, and not IE7...

true, i have no idea there.

I cant help much as my answer to these problems is always "just use firefox"

MRCL · Apr 16, 2009, 01:13 PM

Maybe that particular site is not optimized for IE8 (yet).

Quote:

I cant help much as my answer to these problems is always "just use firefox"

Or Opera.

Mussels · Apr 16, 2009, 01:16 PM

i was just PM'd the site in question, and i can confirm it works in IE7 and FF 3.0.8

Under the IE8 beta on my windows 7 machine (build 7000) i get "error on page" and various features dont work.

At this stage, i'd just be blaming IE8.

Black Panther · Apr 16, 2009, 01:31 PM

Thanks Mussels!

Yup I tried putting the site on "compatibility view" and it didn't work either.

Firefox.... here I return!

FordGT90Concept · Apr 16, 2009, 04:40 PM

I had a similar problem on another computer. After formatting it, I went and got IE8 (from IE6) after installing the drivers but before getting Windows Updates. Needless to say, watching a YouTube video, it crashed about every 15 seconds. What I did was download the full installer again from Microsoft, uninstalled IE8 via Add/Remove Programs, then ran that downloaded installer. It seems to have cleared it up.

If you want me to check if it works on IE8, I can.

DonInKansas · Apr 16, 2009, 05:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mussels

I cant help much as my answer to these problems is always "just use firefox"

QFT.

Kweku · Apr 16, 2009, 05:18 PM

Firefox is king man. Use that and stop complainin

qubit · Apr 16, 2009, 05:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Black Panther

But if it's done for that purpose, it'd make no sense for a website to crash only IE8, and not IE7...

Heck, perhaps it used to crash IE7, but it's been patched now? We know the rendering engine is quite different to IE8. Perhaps try turning the IE7 compatibility feature in IE8 on and off to see if it makes any difference, or alter your security settings (tighten them!)

I'm only pissing in the wind here, but you never know.

If you're happy to PM the suspect website, I'll be happy to try it out on my IE7 and see what I can work out.

FordGT90Concept · Apr 17, 2009, 01:52 AM

Well, reinstalling IE8 didn't do any good. I'm convinced Flash isn't 100% compatible with IE8 because the pages that crash always have a Flash applet on them. Does the site you are trying to view have a Flash applet on it?

Apr 16, 2009, 10:56 AM	#1
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