Possible IE bug... need volunteers to test


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hey, ok, i think i found a bug in IE (all versions, even vista) with displaying (and caching!) lots of animated gifs... first i found it when i was creating a DOM application, that dynamically browsing, adding and removing smilies on an HTML web page, and i though it was a DOM bug... i changed something and the bug disappeared... but then recently people began to report about their IE hangs and all, so i re-checked it and found that something crashes in IE when it displays OR has a lot of animated gifs in cache...

this is how the bug looks like:

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and the proof of concept page is here: http://www.psycho.io/crash2.html

...so, i would appreciate if someone is willing to test it and post the results... if it will crash or not... just make sure to wait when all smilies will load (could be slow, because the server is in Russia) and then wait about 30 seconds with that page open... and yea, make sure you open it with IE, and won't have any other important windows open with that browser... some of my friends said they couldn't close IE without a task manager...

the bug also may be in Opera, but without a weired behavior, just the blinking images (ha, makes me think that opera has some IE code in it :woot: )

I tried IE7 xp sp2. It started freaking out. Scrollbar was blinking black and white. Title bar for the IE window disappeared for a bit, but now it seems to be working fine.

EDIT: after clearing cache. I got it freaking out again, but I couldn't take a screen shot because it said there wasn't enough memory.

FWIW,

No problems using brand new Seamonkey 1.1.18 on XP Pro.

Yep,

All freaked out in IE6 on XP Pro. Page went totally black for a second, then split in half, with nothing there. Why does the url show up in some foreign language while the page is blinking though? Where you trying to re-direct people to?

Strange. When I opened windows task manager and trying to terminate IE7, I found out there was still much enough memory to serve other processes (including IE7).

yea, really weird... so many different results from different people...

i wonder if it has something to do with hardware...

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