Bing crashes Internet explorer | The Coffeehouse

pathfinder
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

I have tried this on three computers and get the same results. Let me know if happens to you.

Open up Bing in internet explorer (I tried it on ie 7).

Type something into the search bar and click search. After the search results come up.

Go to File menu and click Print. Hit cancel. Bada - Bing! Internet Explorer will crash.

Edit- I tried it on a fourth computer and didn't get the error. This computer had a default printer installed though.

MasterPie
I'm white because I smelt an onion

No repro.

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

In reply to MasterPie

#Jun 18th @ 3:46 PM

No repro.

pathfinder
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

In reply to PaoloM

#Jun 18th @ 3:49 PM

hmmm, try it on a computer that doesn't have a default printer installed if you can.

Charles
Welcome Change

How is it that Bing is causing the crash? Sounds to me like an IE problem. Or does Google search not crash IE under the same scenario (try and print the web page with results)? Certainy, Bing results page has more CSS + JS, but if IE crashes (especially if it just goes away) then there's some sort of AV going on. Not sure Bing is to blame...

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MasterPie
I'm white because I smelt an onion

In reply to pathfinder

#Jun 18th @ 3:53 PM

I have not installed a printer, so the default is Microsoft XPS writer.

Win 7 RC btw.

DCMonkey
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey will destroy you!

Crashed for me (I sent the report). I didn't even get to Cancel the dialog. It happens on Print Preview too. It also happens with a copy of the page saved as an .mht "web archive" but not as a "complete" or "html only" .htm file.

IE7, XP SP3

I have a default printer.

Google doesn't have same problem.

Edit:

Also happens with add-ons disabled. With AV disabled. And with a different default printer.

Crash report says ModName is mshtml.dll so the problem is either in there or bad data is being passed into it.

Charles
Welcome Change

In reply to DCMonkey

#Jun 18th @ 4:19 PM

Thanks for sending the error report! It's probably just an evil plot that's part of the new IE8 "marketing" campaign. I mean, obviously IE7 is not IE8, so... Get lost!

Smiley
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spivonious

In reply to pathfinder

#Jun 18th @ 3:53 PM

No repro here. I set my default to the XPS printer, since that's always there. Win 7 RC.

Escamillo

I have two computers, both have the same default printer. The first computer is XP/IE7, which reproduces the crash every time, and I sent the crash report (I don't need to cancel the Print dlg, the crash occurs as the Print dlg is coming up). The second computer is Vista/IE8, which never produces the crash.

pathfinder
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

In reply to spivonious

#Jun 18th @ 6:44 PM

I tested it again this morning and it still crashes. Must only affect IE7 and Windows XP. Unfortunately I get this on my work computer which I have no control over the environment.

Any idea on when this will be fixed? In the meantime, I guess I will switch my homepage back to google search.

Charles
Welcome Change

In reply to pathfinder

#Jun 22nd @ 10:11 AM

I've FW'd this to the IE team directly. I'd imagine they already have the data from the crash telemetry that will help pinpoint the bug. Thank you again for submitting the crash dump.

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Sabot
My name is Dave Oliver. I'm a Technical Architect.

In reply to Charles

#Jun 22nd @ 10:23 AM

Hmmm ... smells like a fault with a plugin taking out IE.

DCMonkey
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey will destroy you!

In reply to Sabot

#Jun 22nd @ 12:43 PM

Except it happens for me without any plugins loaded.

Dodo
I'm your creativity creator™ :)

In reply to Charles

#Jun 22nd @ 10:23 AM

It'll be a won't fix with the recommendation of installing IE8, optimized for Bing. Smiley

omarabid
Omar Abid

In reply to pathfinder

#Jun 18th @ 3:53 PM

how come "without a default printer"?? if you have two printer and you delete the default one, the other will become default, so there's always a printer (may be I didn't understood)

Any way, this isn't really dangerous.. have you tried it on other sites other than Bing?