Crash only in IE 6.0

  • Hello everyone!

    I’m having a bit of an issue here. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, with no site changes in the past month, Internet Explorer 6.0 crashes when my site loads (most of the time).

    https://hoboken411.com

    The site had been working fine for the past 7 months with no problems.

    How can I go about troubleshooting what is wrong with the IE 6.0 usage? It stinks because 49% of my users use 6.0.

    I’ve tried to read similar support questions, such as this one, I cannot make heads or tales from the .CSS validator. I doubt that is the problem, since I have not changed my STYLE.CSS in the past year.

    FYI, it only crashes the home page, but not any of the single article posts. So I’ve tried to deductively find the offending code, but cannot.

    I also thought it may be a single post (out of the 12 that are commonly on the home page) but I couldn’t narrow it down. Each individual post works fine, but the home page (which hasn’t been changed) crashes, when it worked last week.

    The error message Internet Explorer give is very ambiguous. “Internet explorer cannot continue, etc… sorry for the inconvenience….” and it lists MSHTML.DLL as the offending issue.

    Is there any way I can troubleshoot EXACTLY what the problem is, and how it can be rectified?

    Your help would be greatly appreciated. Remember, nothing changed since last week (when it was working without incident)…

    I started to investigate the style.css to see if that is causing the issue (although I doubt it since other pages / archives work).

    https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fhoboken411.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Falexified%2Fstyle.css&warning=1&profile=css21&usermedium=all

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    I’m facing the exact same problem too. My site sparklette.net crashes in IE6 only on the main index, and not the single pages. It’s the same mshtml.dll issue.

    Did you or anyone manage to pinpoint the problem?

    Thanks!

    start by6 fixing your validation errors.

    https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsparklette.net%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&ss=1&group=0&verbose=1

    According to Microsoft “This problem may occur when a script is run that uses the removeNode function on the Web page.”

    Run Microsoft update and check that your website has not been hacked with a malicious script.

    I had the same problem with my blog (WP 2.5, theme K2, two sidebars). IE 6 totally crashed.
    I solved the problem by removing the widget ‘tag cloud’. Widget WP-Polls still looks like crap but IE doesn’t crash anymore (I hope).
    Grtz,
    Ellen

    I had the exact same problem (WP 2.5, K2 theme, homepage only crashes).
    After grueling testing, inc upgrading to XP-SP3, removing all plugins, then posts, then sections of code – the culprit was found in a DB call for the blog links, in the Links section on the sidebar.

    My suspicion is that the real problem is always DB related, not necessarily with links. In another post someone reported that changing (?) the DB helped him – so possibly some actions can be taken on the DB to solve it.
    I simply deleted the problematic DB call… probably until next time.

    BTW, my host is running Windows/IIS, and as a result I get heaps of problems. I wonder if this is also MS-Windows/IIS related (on top of the MS-IE problem :-). Do the rest of you use IIS as well?

    Good luck
    yudayuda

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