Skybuck Flying wrote:
> It's very annoying how all instances of IE8 are closed if one
> is lost/terminated ?! They are different processes, why are all
> closed ?!?
FYI: The newsgroup for Internet Explorer is found at:
microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general
Maybe it's something common amongst all of them, like an old and perhaps
incompatible add-on that you installed for IE. Have you yet tried
loading IE8 in its no add-ons mode? Have you tried rebooting Windows
into its safe mode (with networking) and then load IE8 in its no add-ons
mode?
DEP mode was added in IE7 but was defaulted to disabled. This was
because many add-ons were improperly coded for memory use. This gave
developers time to fix their add-ons so they were DEP mode compatible.
In IE8, DEP mode was enabled by default: Internet Options -> Advanced
tab -> Security section -> Enable memory protection to mitigate online
attacks. So all those crappy add-ons starting getting exposed in IE8.
You could disable DEP mode or you could check if the add-on author
improved their code or you get rid of their crappy add-on and do without
its features or get a similar add-on from a different author that was
better coded.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.85).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.85).aspx (tip 17)
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2...rotection.aspx
Chrome will crash all of its instances, too, although a separate copy of
an extension is loaded for each Chrome instance. ActiveX isn't designed
to run multiple separate instances and Chrome does support AX, so if one
AX control as an extension dies then so does every instance of
chrome.exe to manage a tab that uses the common AX instance. Google
Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and other non-Microsoft web
browers do not support ActiveX and instead use the Netscape Plugin
Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) and which does no share
session information with existing IE windows. ActiveX is still a kludge
setup with non-Microsoft web browsers because it doesn't fit with the
existing paradigm [partially] adopted by non-Microsoft web browsers to
sandbox or isolate their tab processes. Some add-ons are not designed
to handle the multiple tab processes managed by IE8; for example, IE7Pro
was a popular add-on (although support was erratic and the author
focused more on new features than fixes bugs) but it wasn't designed for
IE8 and caused lots of crashing there.
Only you know what extensions, add-ons, plug-ins you installed for
Chrome. The community that develops the Chrome extensions is akin to
the community that develops extensions for Firefox: some are good
developers or script writers but many are not so you get extensions that
range from great and robust to those that are unstable and contentious
with other extensions. The extensions tend to be authored individually
rather than deeply tested for compatibility with the web browser and
with other extensions. It's up to the users to figure out which are the
good extensions, which ones suck, and which ones won't work with other
extensions.