RE: IE 5.x (5.50.4522.1800 SP1) Crash at gopher://:

From: Bo Stark (boat_private)
Date: Wed May 16 2001 - 11:43:58 PDT

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    At 11:42 2001-05-16 +0100, you wrote:

>Now, the wierd thing is this. I've managed to make this happen a few times,
>but it seems slightly random. Wonder if anyone else can reproduce this:
>
>1. type shell://: hit return. Normal extra window appears
>2. type shell://:; hit return. TWO extra windows appear
>3. type shell://:;; hit return. 2 or 3 extra windows appear
>4. type shell://: hit return. Explorer comes back with an exception error:
>
>The Exception unknown software exception (0xc00000fd) occurred in the
>application at location 0x76c82587

"shell://:;" crashed both ie and explorer.exe on one machine.
It didn't work on two other with SP2, so I guess SP2 will fix it.

However, "gopher://:" still makes them crash ie.




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