how to debug to know what caused IE8 crash?

Question

when visiting certain web pages on one of websites, IE8 Crashes before it can render anything. Works on IE7 and 9 though. Im stuck with this for a couple days.

If I removed all style sheet links in the page then it worked. so looks like probably a css issue. Anyone know how to debug that to know that caused it?

Any help will be much appreciated!

Answer 1

This seems to be a bug with jQuery 1.6.2. If you're using XP w/ IE8, jQuery 1.6.2 and your body tag has a CSS background, IE8 will crash. The solution (workaround) is to make sure you load jQuery first and then load your stylesheet. Or you can go back to 1.6.1 as I don't believe it has this problem.

You can find more details at: http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/9028