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Sunday, November 22, 2009 8:54 PM

Troubleshooting Authentication with Fiddler

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been exchanging mail with a webmaster (Vladimir) in Russia who reported that his customers were having problems using IE8 on Windows 7 to log into his website. His site uses HTTP Basic Authentication, so users are prompted
Posted by EricLaw | 2 Comments
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:53 PM

Using Meddler to Simulate Web Traffic

As mentioned back in July , IE8’s new lookahead downloader has a number of bugs which cause it to issue incorrect speculative download requests. The “BASE Bug” caused the speculative downloader to only respect the <BASE> element for the first speculatively
Posted by EricLaw | 3 Comments
Monday, October 12, 2009 12:01 PM

Capturing Crash Dumps for Analysis

Sometimes, folks report crashes to the IE team that we are unable to reproduce internally. That’s usually because, as mentioned often, most crashes are caused by buggy browser add-ons. In some cases, however, crashes occur even when running with browser
Posted by EricLaw | 1 Comments
Monday, July 20, 2009 9:10 PM

Unshackling IE8 Performance

In general, IE8 is a significantly faster browser than prior versions. We made a number of major investments throughout the browser’s code to help ensure that IE users will have a great real-world experience on the web. However, it is definitely the case
Posted by EricLaw | 28 Comments
 
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