C# – IE6 crashes while displaying simple site

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I have a really strange problem with an quite simple ASP.NET (.NET 3.5) Site and the IE6.

It seems sometimes and on certain machines, the IE6 crashes while displaying the site. CSS was already eliminated as a reason for the crashes.

After a while of research, I was not able to find a reason for the crashes and could not reproduce it properly.

The site works on all browsers, except IE6 and it crashes only on certain machines, not everywhere.

Any idea what this could be?

[Edit] When IE crashes, I get the Windows-Exception Dialog and have to close IE6: not just a warning or something.

Best Answer

A couple of things you could try:

  • Check if any IE plug-ins (toolbars, etc) are installed on the machines in question, and try disabling all of them.
  • Check the Windows Event Log to see if the crash has left any clues.

If you want to get really hardcore, you could follow Mark Russinovich's Guide to analyzing the process crash data to determine what if anything could be causing the issue. In his case it turned out to be an Nvidia component that caused IE to randomly crash.

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