Website Crashes Only in Internet Explorer 8
Internet Explorer continues to be the most frustrating browser to develop websites for. The most recent bug I encountered with IE8 took hours to track down.
While working on a website I noticed in IE8 the site would crash the entire browser before the site even had a chance to render any content. The website worked fine in IE6, 7, and 9. The error logs provided no valuable information, leaving me to a trial and error approach for debugging. I eventually found that when I disabled the stylesheet, the website would render.
The Problem
There is a known bug with jQuery 1.6.2 that causes Internet Explorer 8 to crash if there is a body background image defined in a CSS file loaded before jQuery in the header: http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/9028
The Solution
Change your jQuery version, preferrably to 1.7.1. Check out the jQuery website for more information.
Thanks!
Had the same problem! Website only crashed on IE8.
My problem was a compressed CSS file. IE8 seems to have problems with compressed CSS files…
Solution: don’t compress…
Yves,
IE8 can able to handle compressed CSS files just fine, maybe there was a problem with the compressor you were using?
I’m having this same problem with the latest release of JQuery 1.8.3.
Any advice?
Jason,
First thing I would do is update to jQuery 1.9.1