My Toolbar or BHO is Causing IE7 on Vista to Crash on Close. Help!

re: My Toolbar or BHO is Causing IE7 on Vista to Crash on Close. Help!

Luciano — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 11:58:19 GMT

Well done! This is the kind of post i'm looking for!

Spy vs. Spy: Revenge of the Tooltip

Tony Schreiner's WebLog — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:11:23 GMT

On Friday I talked about some of the problems with unbalanced CoInitialize() and CoUninitialize() calls

CSS Celebrates 10 years and Problems With BHOs & Tool Bars?

PeteL's Blog — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:00:52 GMT

We just moved into our new building here on campus (we moved from 42 (good) to 17 (not so good)). I've

re: My Toolbar or BHO is Causing IE7 on Vista to Crash on Close. Help!

Michael Herman (Parallelspace) — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 21:59:36 GMT

What is a person supposed to do about existing applications that break when IE 7 is installed?

Please read http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/mwherman2000/archive/2007/01/06/183736.aspx

Not impressed ...tabs is not a good trade-off for broken backward compatbility

re: My Toolbar or BHO is Causing IE7 on Vista to Crash on Close. Help!

tonyschr — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 07:31:34 GMT

Michael, this break isn't necessarily due to tabbed browsing, but in any case my recommendation is to first check whether there's an updated version of the application (which I'm sure you've done) and then contact the vendor.

In most cases it is fairly simple for vendors to address any incompatiblities between their code and IE7. For better or worse, now that IE7 has shipped it's *far* more practical for vendors to update their code than for IE7 to take to take a fix that does a workaround.

re: My Toolbar or BHO is Causing IE7 on Vista to Crash on Close. Help!

Michael Herman (Parallelspace) — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:47:34 GMT

It would be far more practical if the IE7 team had tested this release in the Windows Hardware Compatibility lab. Was this included in the IE7 test plan?

re: My Toolbar or BHO is Causing IE7 on Vista to Crash on Close. Help!

tonyschr — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:13:11 GMT

Michael, I don't know the specifics regarding our test plan and the Windows Hardware Compatibility Lab, but IE7 is part of Vista so any testing that occurred on Vista could/should have also included IE7.

For compatibility testing, in addition

to our own test team, which can handle checking the core functionality for many of the top extensions and applications, we released numerous public betas to help in testing for compatibility issues. (Said betas were downloaded by millions of users, so it wasn't like they were in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard.") ;-)

IE7 Beta 1 was released to MSDN subscribers well over a year before release, and the widespread public beta was available around Jan/Feb 2006, around eight months prior to release.

We identified and worked-around a bunch of application and web site compatibility issues, and later we created the Upgrade Advisor for warning the user about catastrophic failures due to incompatible add-ons we weren't able to work around. It would have been nice if we had a more complete (or server-based) list of incompatible extensions, but there's never enough time to do *everything* you want.

That said, in cases where extensions are in compatible, our efforts to maximize compatibility should help developers quickly update their extensions so they work as reliably with IE7 as they did with IE6.