named popup crashes IE

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John Rigsby - 20 Sep 2005 23:13 GMT

Any ideas?

Using IE 6 6.0.3790 (fully windows updated) if I attempt to open a named
popup window with another popup window already open it crashes IE. IE gives
an error message and upon clicking OK the program and all associated windows
close.

This will also occur when window.open is used with a named window

window.open(mypage,mywindowname,'')

Note that the bug only occurs if another window is open. You can open as
many unnamed windows as you like but opening a named window or using a link
with a target while another window is open causes the error.

This does not happen on IE 6.0.2900.2180

(of course the use of named windows in IE 6.0.2900.2180 doesnt work right
either, but it doesn't crash)

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John Rigsby - 21 Sep 2005 01:34 GMT

All the posts I found did not match the specific problem until I finally
came across this thread. While the first post exactly matches my own the
others are just different enough to make me wonder if the problems are
related. But I tried the solution for the other issues and found the
solution works. If interested my google query that finally helped me find
the solution included the verion of IE that was having issues.

Google query: named popup crash 6.0.3790

Results: 2nd item

http://www.anetforums.com/posts.aspx?ThreadIndex=3330

Open an ms-dos prompt window and type the following hitting enter after each
line.

regsvr32 Shdocvw.dll
regsvr32 Shell32.dll
regsvr32 Oleaut32.dll
regsvr32 Actxprxy.dll
regsvr32 Mshtml.dll
regsvr32 Urlmon.dll

> Any ideas?
>
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> (of course the use of named windows in IE 6.0.2900.2180 doesnt work right
> either, but it doesn't crash)

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