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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that SiteMeter made some changes to their tracking code, which led to their site counter crashing Internet Explorer 6 and 7 ( and 5.5 ?). SiteMeter updated their code to fix the problem, but a side effect of...
I have just finished glancing over Mark Russinovich's latest blog entry, in which he described how he tracked down the cause of, and fix for, crashes affecting Internet Explorer on his Vista x64 gaming system, as well as crashes affecting Windows...
You will be unable to remove IE8 Beta or IE7 after installing Windows XP SP3 because Microsoft wants to make sure that you do not encounter a problem commonly known as " DLL Hell ". IE8 Beta 1 users You will NOT be offered Windows XP SP3 unless...
Another cry for help received via email... " You are my last best hope... I am just a regular guy from NY (not the city) with a problem. My homepage in IE7 is locked on a page I dont want. I try to change it in Internet options and it even says the...
Details here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-apr.mspx The Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer is also available - details here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-024.mspx Note that this month's...
A script may not run as expected in IE when you open an HTML page and the HTML page contains an element that has injected HTML code This issue occurs because Internet Explorer sets the security of an element as "about:blank" if the following...
12 patches, including a critical patch for Internet Explorer: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-feb.mspx
HOTFIX: The exception handler may not catch an exception in Internet Explorer 7 or in Internet Explorer 6 when you view a Web page that throws an exception from a function that is called through the expando property You develop a Web page that throws...
As we know, there have been reports of some IE6 users running Windows XP SP2 having problems accessing web pages after installing the December IE Cumulative Update - IE stops responding. The problem has apparently been restricted to some customised installations...
You use Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 to browse to a Web page. However, Internet Explorer 6 may crash under certain circumstances, such as when you open and close a modal dialog box several times. http://support.microsoft.com/KB/944435
Just catching up on the paperwork here... IE6 and IE7: Proxy server settings are not set correctly in IE6 afer you download a proxy script that uses chunk encoding Install IE update MS07-069 then enable the fix by editing the registry http://support.microsoft...
IE6 has a problem wherein if you uninstall some toolbar items the following may occur: • On the View menu of Internet Explorer 6, when you point to Toolbars to show the toolbar items, the toolbar names may become blank. • In some cases, when you click...
The EOLAS lawsuit and its side effects continue their death throes. As part of the process, a preview of the update that will remove the changes forced by the EOLAS lawsuit is available for download here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945007/en-us Note...
Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in the way Windows resolves hostnames that do not include a fully-qualified domain name (FQDN). The technology that the vulnerability affects is Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD). Microsoft...
When you view a Web page by using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, a GIF image that is located on the Web page appears as expected. However, if you press F5 to update the display, or if you click Refresh to update the display, the GIF image no longer appears...
Pete L reports that new builds of the IE6 and IE7 VPC images may be released as early as Monday or Tuesday.
This issue occurs if the following conditions are true: • The hyperlink is a uniform resource identifier (URI) that links to a file. • The file name contains UTF-8-encoded characters. In the URI, the UTF-8-encoded characters are interpreted as a byte...
Well well well, isn't this interesting. Microsoft have licensed the technologies that are covered by the infamous Eolas patent , and will be removing the “click to activate” requirement in Internet Explorer. Regular readers of this blog will remember...
When you IE6 to move from a Web site on an XP SP2-based computer, IE may crash On a Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)-based computer, you use Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 to move from a Web site that contains a reference to a style sheet. In this case...
If you capture network traffic when these symptoms occur, you notice that lots of CONNECT request connections are established. However, these connections are dropped without being used. This problem occurs because of an error in the Wininet.dll file....
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