32 bit IE stability

Does anyone else have a problem where 32 bit IE just quits. Most of the
time I get no indication there was any kind of error, IE just goes
away. 64 bit IE doesn't seem to have this problem. My system seems
completely stable other than this 1 problem (no problems in memtest+ or
prime95---no overclocking, but i've been testing because of this weird
issue).

I can reproduce this problem reliably at drudgereport.com -- i think
its some of the ads on that site, and the news sites that are linked to
that cause my browser to crash. If I let my browser sit on that page
for awhile, it will quit. Refreshing a bunch of times also generally
causes it. Usually I just click the news links, read, and use the back
button to get back, and IE just quits. Sometimes I have to open a new
browser and copy the link shortcut there to even get to a site because
every time I click it, IE just decides to go away.

I have a friend who says his 32 bit IE is crashing in the exactly the
same way, but I'm also am running x64 on my work machine and 32 bit IE
is very stable there.

This is a fresh install. No spyware utilities running yet. I am running
a trial of nod32, but I tried uninstalling that and testing again.

 

Go figure. As soon as I post a message here I find the problem and
solution I disabled the flash active x control and everything became
stable. I then reenabled flash and upgrade to flash 9 and everything is
all good now. I guess there's either a bug in flash6 or bad
embed/object tags. Probably just flash 6 trying to run a flash 8 file
or something.

 

Flash in general can be a problem. One of the things I like a lot about
64bit IE is that I have no flash with it. Yes, it's a nuisance when it's a
site I actually want to see the flash on. But the number of times that
happens can be counted on the fingers of one hand in a month. IOW, I wish
sites would just stop wasting their time, money, and energy on flash and
spend their time on actual value to the users and consumers.

 

Yes. The Internet is trying to be the New TV.

One thing I wish is that 64-bit IE had a button that you could click to
switch you to 32-bit IE when you hit one of those sites where you really do
want to see the flash. Can't they just build that in as a option?
It does it when you try to access Windows Update from IE 64.
Now, all you can do is copy the url from the address bar, open 32-bit IE and
paste it into that address bar.

 

I can really recomend FlashSwitch www.flashswitch.com - it's free and runs
great on x64 windows too

Peter Lawton

 

I don't mind flash so much as long as it doesn't prevent me from
getting to the content I need as fast as possible. Flash intros are
always terrible. Flash designers also have a tendency to sacrifice
usability for flashiness when doing things like navigation in flash.

I'm fine with it being used in ads I'll never click or even look
at--well as long as they don't crash my browser...