IE8 crashes when loading website - res://ieframe.d

Question

Our website crashes when one of our users loads the front page in IE 8.0.6001.18702.

The page loads briefly and then IE stops loading it and shows an error message.

The URL in the address bar is changed to:

res://ieframe.dll/acr_error.htm#ourwebsite.com,http://demo.ourwebsite.com/login/

I've read accounts of this happening to other users of IE8 when loading sites such as facebook.com & barnesandnoble.com.

Forums such as this refer to possible fixes, such as:

unchecking the'Enable third party browser extensions' option in IE 8 advanced option

However, this isn't really an option for us as the site will eventually become a public facing website. We need to apply a fix to the page IE8 is trying to load.

So, does anyone know what it is about the page that IE8 is trying to load that might cause it to do this?

Answer 1

We've solved this by replacing some nasty code in our base html file.

Before:

 meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge;chrome=1"

After:

And the solution came by replacing it with this magical line:

 meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7"

Answer 2

I was having this same issue and it was because I was trying to manipulate elements using javascript in a div that was overflow: scroll, all I did was change overflow to auto and everything worked.

Hope this helps

Answer 3

There is a known bug in jQuery 1.6.2 that is triggered by a background image being placed on the body element.

The bug report and patch are:

http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/9823

https://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/5c4a9cc001fcd803efa65ff95571c72cbdafbe69

I've also had modernizr trigger this error but since I could work around it I never chased it down.

Answer 4

Don't reload the page - this brings the error message up again. Instead, start at the beginning of the URL you were looking at a second ago, and delete everything before it. Then press enter. The error won't come back for at least another little while.

I know because FanFiction.net has the same problem, and this is how I've solved it.

Answer 5

please read this: res://ieframe.dll error in IE 8

Answer 6

It may be a background image on the body. Check this link for more informations : http://drupal.org/node/1323608