Description

Under certain circumstances (which my users seem to find far too easy to create), the GUI editor can crash IE.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open a page in the GUI Editor using IE6 (latest patch level on Windows XP SP2 as of 27 September 2006)
2. Immediately click on the format item in the menu
3. Try to click in the edit window (not in the format dropdown) -- it seems to fail more reliably if you click on empty space at the end of a line
4. The dropdown will go white and then IE will crash.

Is there some error msg when IE crashes? Does crashing depend on wiki page content?

The error message is just the "Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and will close" popup, and there doesn't seem to be any way to save it and attach it here.

There doesn't seem to be any direct relation to the page content -- my users have seen it on simple pages as well as complex ones.

Example

Details

This wiki

Workaround

• Don't do that.
• Use a less buggy browser (Firefox, Opera and about everything else non-IE). This also helps with many other issues that are caused by IE being broken.

  • I agree, but I can't convince all of my users. I try, though.... -- DavidSinger 2006-09-28 16:23:36

    • Don't ask your users to use some other browser, tell them that IE is not supported on this technology and provide links to alternate browsers, with a note that you'll install any of them they need.

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