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I'm the author that discovered this bug - and went way out of my way to tell the Internet Explorer team about it. I uncovered the error while working on a client's SharePoint site and figuring out why a certain page always caused their computer to freeze up.

The most amazing part of this exercise has been analyzing the traffic trends. This page gets a crazy amount of traffic in Japan and China - I still can't figure out why.

It has also been a remarkable insight into the dysfunction that is Microsoft; I'll hear from some random Microsoft employee twice a year who became aware of the site and wants to fix it, after pointing to the closed "not a bug" thread on MSDN they all vanish (apparently keenly aware of how atrocious the IE team reacts to external interest/support.)

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I don't even bother reporting bugs in IE anymore. They never fix them.

Yesterday I ran into errors "String is undefined" when trying to augment String.prototype. Testing for undefined got me "undefined is undefined". Turns out it was a variation of a known issue they deem so unlikely that they won't even bother to fix it. (The issue is this one: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg622929%28v=VS.85%2... ) If anyone wants to know the fix: you have to set the innerHTML of the parent element of the iframe to '' before detaching that element from the DOM. That actually stops code inside the iframe from running.

What I also love is the arrogance with which they suggest solutions, like on the page I linked: "If your application uses a programming pattern that is affected by this issue, you may wish to consider not removing the iFrames from the page."

Exception: if the crash is a non-null access violation, please report to MSRC.

Its probably people trolling the internet users in those countries using an iframe because they couldn't replicate the crash or couldn't be bothered hosting it. Internet Explorer is still the main browser in China and Japan

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-CN-monthly-201105-201205

Where is the bug report? I'd be curious to read the response from Microsoft.

(The link on the page is just to a Google Group discussion, which doesn't appear to have participation from Microsoft.)

https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/554467/loa...

Live login required? Pffffft.

After logging in, I get this:

> Page Not Found

> The content that you requested cannot be found or you do not have permission to view it.

Did they remove the item?

Same here. Looks like they've deleted it. I couldn't find a cached copy of it either.

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