My employer is about to release a web app and the latest MS security update rendered our CKEditor virtually unusable. Any advice will be greatly appreciated
To reproduce:
- click Font dropdown
- it displays okay
- click it again
- IE9 reports a hard crash and closes.
This is happening every time in my web app. I was able to reproduce it on CKEditor 3 sample 'sharedspaces' although there it happens roughly one time out of 20.
Theory: The font dropdown uses a hidden IFrame. November security update for IE9 (KB2761451) introduced a bug related to hidden iframes. The crash has been reported against other web products too, you can search stackoverflow for the KB number.
Is anyone else running into this with CKEditor? I doubt MS will fix it any time soon. Any ideas how I can work around it?
thanks,
Sergey
We're also affected by this
We're also affected by this issue. Several of the Styles toolbar buttons will now cause IE9 to crash from our app (frequently but not every time).
Grateful for any workarounds.
UPDATE: switching to IE8 Document Compatibility Mode seems to fix the problem. This is not really a workable fix for us, but might be for some. UPDATE2: I lied, it does not fix the problem. I agree with SR1s comment below.
We're also affected by this
It does not fix the problem for us. Initially we thought it did, later we found out that the act of going to a menu like Tools or opening F12 window 'fixed' the problem for one or two clicks. It had something to do with taking the focus off IE window, not with the compatibility mode.
I am able to replicate the
I am able to replicate the problem on 2 machines. It works fine the first time you select one of the drop downs (formatting/font). The second time you click the drop down, it crashes the browser.
Note: The demo on this site works fine in all my machines.
It crashed on 2 out of 4 machines I tested it on.
Win7 64Bit - IE - Crash
Windows 2008 64Bit - IE - Crash
Win7 64Bit - IE - Good
Win7 64Bit - IE - Good
The first two computers I tested it on crash. the other two computers are fine.
I tested it on two more
I tested it on two more computers
Win XP 32 Bit - IE 8 - Good
Win 7 64 bit - IE 9 - Bad
So it looks like 3 out of the 5 IE 9 browsers are crashing when the Formatting/Font pull downs are selected multiple times.
Changing the doctype did not help.
Same issue on MS TechNet
It seems that Microsoft support is investigating the same issue, no resolution yet: "At the same time, I saw a similar issue which is troubleshooting by our engineer in our database. I will give you an update if I find they get a solution."
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itpronetworking/thread/6b19d8c2-6c1d-4fa1-a45d-7d4da4d7592b
Since I can't seem to
Since I can't seem to replicate it on the CKEditor site, I've put it on a temporary site.
http://www.maimedia.com/ckeditortest/test.html
Try it on multiple computers with IE9. Click the "Font" pull down. Click on the document. Click on the "Font" pull down again and IE crashes.
All of the computers that it
All of the computers that it affects had Cache disabled. Enabling cache prevents the crashes. That said, you can't tell your users to turn on cache.
Microsoft determined this is a bug and working on a fix
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itpronetworking/thread/6b19d8c2-6c1d-4fa1-a45d-7d4da4d7592b
Thanks SR1!
Would you post back here if/when MS issues some kind of fix? I presume it will automatically ship in a new KB, but who knows for sure.
Last night Microsoft pushed a
Last night Microsoft pushed a new security update that fixes the crash. I tested and it works
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2761465
Great, thanks SR1. I'll let
Great, thanks SR1. I'll let people around here know, they'll be very happy.