Why is IE11 “Total memory” so much larger than heap snapshot size?

Note: Microsoft has publicly disowned IE, but it is still relevant when testing what happens if a webpage is viewed with the Microsoft web browser on an older Windows version that wasn’t bundled with Edge. In Win32 in general (IE is part of Win32, but possibly with its own differences), total memory use includes memory … Read more

Program Download – IE CHROME – “is not commonly downloaded and could be dangerous.”

The best resources are this blog post and this blog post. To sum up: Sign you package with an authenticode signature. Don’t be malware (I’m sure you got that covered). Logo your software (if it’s not a browser plug-in). This can be a frustrating process, so hang in there. Microsoft has not disclosed how many … Read more

Anyone have ideas for solving the “n items remaining” problem on Internet Explorer?

IF you use behaviors ANYWHERE in your code (or a library you use uses them) e.g. <style> body * { behavior:url(anyfile.htc); } </style> Then there is NO solution that I’m aware of and the bug report filed in IE Feedback on Connect for IE8 (and IE7) was rejected for both releases with the following blanket … Read more

PDF files do not open in Internet Explorer with Adobe Reader 10.0 – users get an empty gray screen. How can I fix this for my users?

It’s been 4 months since asking this question, and I still haven’t found a good solution. However, I did find a decent workaround, which I will share in case others have the same issue. I will try to update this answer, too, if I make further progress. First of all, my research has shown that … Read more

Javascript .pathname IE quirk?

The W3C standard on the window object – including the location interface – is dated 07 April 2006, ie it was specified after actual implementations had been around for years. The standard reads: pathname This attribute represents the path component of the Location’s URI which consists of everything after the host and port up to … Read more

What heuristics do browsers use to cache resources not explicitly set to be cachable?

Let’s assume all browsers we are interested in are Internet Explorer 8 or newer (e.g. IE5 has some terrible behaviour with caching headers). There is only ONE standards based way of controlling caching (introduced with HTTP/1.1) – the Cache-Control HTTP header. Since at least 1996 IE has been using an opt-out policy for caching HTTPS … Read more

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