My site is crashing IE

[zomega42]

I can't repeat the problem on my computer, but a couple people emailed last week saying a page on my site crashes IE ("IE has encountered an error and needs to close").

The only fancy thing on the page is AdSense, could this be causing this problem? I suspect it has something to do with the patches / windows updates that have been released in the last couple weeks, because nobody ever mentioned it before and now there are suddenly two people.

Anybody else having this problem?

Even if it is AdSense, I should point out that unlike the last AdSense fiasco this would probably be MS's fault, not Google's.

[bill]

Probably best to run your pages through a validator [validator.w3.org] to see if there are any errors in your code first.

[lammert]

It seems that AdSense allows mores type of graphical ads than in the past, which sometimes causes Internet Explorer to try to download plug-ins for these ads. There was recently a large discussion about this in the AdSense forum at [webmasterworld.com...] Maybe the plug-in existence check or download operation caused the problem with your visitors.

[herb]

We have seen this happening with the Win 2K OS after the last patch. Works ok on XP. Would be interesting to know what OS your visitors are using and if they have applied the patch of Aug 8th (I think that's correct or near correct)

Have tested this a several machines in the office with the same results.

If this assumption is correct we may have no choice but to upgrade to XP or the beta Vista. MS has placed Win 2k as end of life cycle.

Oh, and I don't think is has any thing to do with AS. Two sites we have problems with don't have AS.

[herb]

Interesting... the patch that come through today seems to have resolved this issue. Tried two sites that would crash IE in three clicks and after about 20 clicks it's still running.

Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (KB918899)   Received mine this AM

[zomega42]

Thanks herb, that sounds like that was probably what it was. I will email the customers to see if they still have the problem after applying the new patch.