"Sebastian G." wrote:

> Ant wrote:
>> Error messages (e.g. 404) don't appear in my IE without OK-ing an
>> ActiveX prompt.
>
> Interesting. How did you get such a configuration?

By tweaking the registry values under ...\Internet Settings\Zones\0

Many people would find that a nuisance when performing some normal
day-to-day operations but I tend not to operate normally.

>> I don't know why a search would be made when all automatic object
>> creation is disallowed in all zones.
>
> Because the implementation is somewhere between stupid and broken.
> Instantiation already happens before it tries to apply its policies.

Perhaps limiting ActiveX in *all* zones would stop it. I've yet to see
a control instantiated that I haven't explicitly allowed.

> http://web.archive.org/web/200306260...base/ie6crash/
> http://web.archive.org/web/200306260...ase/ie6crash2/
>
> reliably crash a fully up-to-date Internet Explorer 7. No news, I reported
> these to Microsoft back in 2004; about the time when I stopped caring for MSIE.

No crashes here either online or with locally saved copies of the
tests suitably modified, but then I am using IE5.