IE6 crashing randomly

Hi,

I am having problems with IE6 on Win XP Pro crashing randomly as a page loads. The following appears:



Looking at the data behind the error, this is what appears:



The text of this error message is as follows:

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AppName:  iexplore.exe AppVer: 6.0.2900.2180 ModName: pngfilt.dll
ModVer: 6.0.2900.3314 Offset: 000049ce
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I  have tried using version 4 and version 5 of the script, but both behave in the same manner. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

JT

Yeah, it's happening on multiple computers (mine with XP Pro and IE6, and another with Windows 2000 and IE6). That made me think it was something to do with my implementation of the utility, but it's pretty idiot proof, so I don't see where I could have gone wrong.

I'll have to do some testing with PNG8 as opposed to PNG24 which I'm using now. Otherwise, I'll just have to create a whole new template that uses GIFs for older browsers. Ugh.

Thanks for your time. I'll post an update for others' future reference.

Yeah, I can only think it's related to the number of transparent images I am using; there are a lot of transparent drop shadow images layered over a gradient background.

So I looked into PNG8, but was limited by the fact that transparency can only be associated with one color in the palette by default in PhotoShop (basically no different than GIF). I downloaded the utility PNGNQ (see URL 1 below) to convert my PNG24's to PNG8's with the intent of preserving the transparency after reading various articles (see URL 2 below), but just couldn't get the quality I was after.

In order to er on the side of caution, I am going to use a server-side browser sniffer, and display a GIF based template with a solid color background if the version indicates it will not support transparent PNGs.

Thanks for you help Angus.

JT

URL 1: http://pngnq.sourceforge.net/index.html

URL  2: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/09/18/png8-the-clear-winner/