IE 10 crash in web application

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Approximately every 10 minutes IE crashes when users work in my application in IE10, i enable crash dumps. (Web application written with GWT framework and in IE9 it works perfectly) Info from crash dump: ``` Microsoft (R) Windows Debugger Version 6.12.0002.633 AMD64 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Loading Dump File [C:\LocalDumps\iexplore.exe.9448.dmp] User Mini Dump File: Only registers, stack and portions of memory are available Symbol search path is: SRV*C:\Symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols Executable search path is: Windows 7 Version 7601 (Service Pack 1) UP Free x86 compatible Product: LanManNt, suite: TerminalServer SingleUserTS Machine Name: Debug session time: Thu Nov 28 05:57:44.000 2013 (UTC + 6:00) System Uptime: not available Process Uptime: 0 days 0:00:22.000 ................................................................ ...................... Loading unloaded module list ............... This dump file has an exception of inter…

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"Access violation - code c0000005" - this error message indicates that IE is attempting to access a memory address which doesn't exist. Most often this is caused by an unitialized memory location (ie, you're looking at a null reference error) - unfortuantely, this looks like is a null reference error caused in one of the IE libraries, and not in your code.

In increasing order of complexity/decreasing order of likelyhood, you're looking at one of the following problems:

you're running out of memory, and running out of it hard, on the machine that IE is running on.

you're looking at a hardware issue - some of your memory storage devices are corrupt, and they're corrupting the data that IE is trying to process

you've discovered a bug in the compiler that the JSCRIPT9 interpreter is using.

To debug these kinds of problems:

(2.) use tools to measure the resource use on the machine you're looking at. Make sure that you're not running out of memory. Also, make sure that the problem is reproducible across several machines - eliminate the possibility of a hardware problem.

Get microsoft involved. See if you can obtain the right tools for debugging native windows applications. Unfortunately, the IE10sdk tools aren't easy to obtain (i don't think they're publicly available at all?). The most likely fix to your problem is using a different version of ie.

IE 10 crash in web application

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