Grahame A
Reputation: 3953
Internet Explorer crashing when iframe containing javascript is hidden
Yesterday we identified a problem with one of our sites crashing whenever the iframe on the homepage was hidden, and it was only happening on IE9. The iFrame contained some simple html and a slideshow, which was being run with jquery. Why would this cause a crash in IE but not the other browsers?
Upvotes: 2
Views: 2710
Answers (1)
Grahame A
Reputation: 3953
On nov 13 microsoft released a security update for IE (KB2761451) that is responsible for this issue. Internet explorer will throw an access violation if javascript is run inside a hidden iframe. I suspect this was done to close some cross site scripting vulnerability but I don't think this is the intended behavior.
Microsoft's update page for KB2761451
Upvotes: 5
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