So I’m sitting here trying to get the Windows Live OneCare version 1.6 story up on the front page, and I can’t figure out why Internet Explorer 7 keeps crashing. I’ve never ever seen it crash before. And yet, it always seems to happily commit suicide right before I’m done putting the news article together. I finally track the problem down to the fact I keep launching the OneCare home page to grab the link.
Yes, you read correctly. It would appear that Microsoft’s Windows Live OneCare home page causes IE7 64bit to crash. I took the liberty of downloading Firefox x64 to make sure it had nothing to do with 64bit web browsers in general. Nope, Firefox loaded the page just fine. How embarrassing for Microsoft. The issue has been reproduced on two separate Windows Vista machines with entirely different configurations. Can anyone confirm the issue with IE7 x64 on XP?
Note: On Vista x64, IE7 32bit will load the site correctly.
Screenshot: >> Click here <<
Link: Windows Live OneCare
Yes, you read correctly. It would appear that Microsoft’s Windows Live OneCare home page causes IE7 64bit to crash. I took the liberty of downloading Firefox x64 to make sure it had nothing to do with 64bit web browsers in general. Nope, Firefox loaded the page just fine. How embarrassing for Microsoft. The issue has been reproduced on two separate Windows Vista machines with entirely different configurations. Can anyone confirm the issue with IE7 x64 on XP?
Note: On Vista x64, IE7 32bit will load the site correctly.
Screenshot: >> Click here << Link: Windows Live OneCare
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I use Vista 32 bit, so I cannot confirm. Sorry.
Whoops?
Last edited by Barney on 05 Jun 2007 - 23:57
Must be some plug-in on his machine. Care to post a crash dump Emil?
I'm on XP x64, and I stick with the 64-bit browser whenever and wherever I can. Flash sucks, it's slow and pointless, the less of it I see, the better--as such, IE x64 does a great job at keeping that shyte off my system. I'll use IE 32-bit for youtube, and that's about it. If I can't navigate a site without Flash, it doesn't get my business.
Crashed like a big dog.
Edit: using Vista Business x64
Last edited by NCalliari on 06 Jun 2007 - 18:22
What a troll.
BTW, it works fine. OBV user error.
My sarcastic put down of MS was just that, a joke. Lighten up a little man, get out a bit.
This is happening to rather a few too many people for it to be user error as you put it.
+1
Last edited by alex3299 on 06 Jun 2007 - 03:33
Also that help page says that you need to be logged in as an admin, did you try that?
Now the question is why this doesn't affect everyone: Maybe it has to do with whether Protected Mode is off or on (Mine is off and it crashes for example).
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/8075/iex64crashfz1.png
works fine in the 32 bit IE though o.O
Given that Neowin describes itself as a place where "unprofessional journalism looks better", I really think the editors of this otherwise incredible site and forum should be more concerned about what news makes it onto the front page.
Other areas of concern include where "Software News" in the past has consisted of around 4-5 front page articles on minor build updates to utorrent and where the main news has obvious spelling/grammatical errors where the author simply has not bothered reading through their post before dumping it on the front page of one of the world's most popular tech sites which isn't really acceptable.
This is not a personal attack, just a suggestion to the administrators to perhaps put more effort into QA of the news section of the site.
Otherwise, keep up the good work!
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