Why is IE the only app that crashes on OS X?

karavite

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Is it me, or is IE the only application for OS X that continually crashes, locks up... (Oh AIM for OS X too, but I don't really use that). I have the latest upgrade for IE and it doesn't seem to help - actually seems worse. Many times when I run a page with heavy javascript stuff (no, not porn) - boom, there goes IE.

Well, unlke the old OS 8 - 9.x days, at least now MS doesn't cause me to have to reboot my system over and over, and I sure don't miss the 300 Microsoft extensions in my system folder (okay, a *slight* exaggeration here), but they just can't seem to get anything right. What is it with them? I thought they had all the hot shot programmers of the world working for them now?
 
I think you need to download more apps! ;)
There are several that crash more often than IE on my slot-loading iMac. Just in the field of browsers, I get more frequent crashes from iCab, Mozilla and Opera.
 
IE5 crashes a lot on my system. It hangs a long too (the spinning beachball!).

::still waiting fot the perfect browser::
 
You should see Word X, another "fine" application from Microsoft. It even crashes right at the start.

Speaking of, what does the following error message mean: "cannot find shared library files. Please move Word (resp. Excel) to its original folder"? Whenever I start Word X, I receive that message. But Word IS in its original folder...



:confused:
 
I just remember getting the same type of message when I moved Office to a different folder. Anyone using a clean copy of Office out there. I am still using a beta, don't lecture me, the disk is one the way via US Mail. My Entourage beta crashes everytime I try to download my hotmail folders, and if I am using the calender and change the view (month, week, day, etc) more than once the view buttons all blank out.

I was just wondering if any legit users running the final have had similiar problems.

Jason
 
ya know, I have the same problem except that its most major software companys... they dont give to rat's asses about X, and it shows in their work. AIM is HORRIBLE. They took out all of the functionalities it used to have, ( file sharing, speaker phone, pictures, ect .) and the stupid thing gives me more problems than most apps... with the exclusions of AOL itself, and IE. AOL ( although beta, is f*ing horrible) Besides the fact that 2 years have gone by with out a decent update to the software... we are still on version 5, and a GM version of it for X hasnt been released... funny though because X has been around for how long now?
IE , :eek: , scares me..... this application gives people more rainbows than a truckload of Lucky Charms ( im referring to that stupid spinning rainbow CD, when X is having a head-ache.) Oh well, as you can see, even with a step in the right direction most software co, could care less about the mac community... and it pisses me off.
 
You don't like Microsoft stuff? That's a rare opinion...

  Personally, I'm a big fan of the Macintosh business unit at Microsoft (which is run almost as a seperate company). IE for X may be a bit slow, but then it was almost the first major app to be carbonised, so they were rushed. I'm sure the next version will be more stable - just imagine what would have happened to the release of 10.0.4 if there was no IE, even if it was only a beta - it would have crashed and burned because it's the most popular browser, even if the majority is in the wrong.

  As for office X, it has a few minor problems, but it's most important app for X. Nobody likes to admit it, but having Microsoft developing for the mac is a huge plus for the acceptance of the mac in the business world, and the fact that we have clearly the best version of office on any OS is sweet.

  I think Microsoft's Mac business unit is doing a killer job, and they will do for apple what apple themselves haven't managed to do - show the world that OSX is actually better than windows, because we in the know are still sadly a minority.

  I know it's a thing not done in this forum (except by ManicDVLN) to air support for Microsoft, but Office X has converted me. Maybe they're not all bad (just mostly ;o)

Bernie :eek:)
 
I hope you are right about the Mac unit of M$ that they are the "good guys". Originally, I was trying to see it that way myself, but since both IE and Word X (test version) are frequently crashing on me - while other Mac OS X applications are not - I have my doubts...
Of course, the Mac unit can be regarded as a "thorn in the flesh" from both sides of the fence: They could either be M$ intruders to the Mac world or "traitors" within the M$ camp, depending on how you look at it. But I'll also give them their chance: I have just ordered Office v.X. (But then again with no office alternatives available, what else could I have done?)
 
Hey Bigharrydog,

Since I started this thread, I thought I'd answer your post. You raise all very good points and are a voice of reason. As tough as it is to admit, Apple needs Microsoft. Microsoft's success rests on gaining and maintaning "critical mass" - get enough people to use their stuff so the cost of using something else (not just monetary cost) is too high. That's fair enough, but they haven't exactly *played* fair and that is why personally hate the company and everything it stands for. Even though it is hard to admit that Office on X looks like they finally got it, I'm not happy about it at all.

I might add that Microsoft needs Apple (and a whole lot of other companies) for ideas! What, other than the paper clip and a few obscure networking tricks, has MS really invented? I suppose you could say Apple stole the whole original Mac from Xerox, but nobody compares to MS and their aggresiveness toward other people's innovations (poor Netscape being the most sad story of them all). Imagine a world where MS gets its apparent wish and runs the whole damn world - where will their new ideas come from? I say they won't have any that are truly breakthroughs or improve computing as a means for us to communicate, work, learn...

I wish people could understand that what made the PC and the Internet grow so fast was diverisity and openness - ie. competition. When nobody owned the desktop and/or network, the biggest and most creative changes took place.

Who knows, maybe MS's business practices, arrogance... will one day cause its own downfall. I'm a huge fan of open source as the last hope for this, and I love how good old IBM is now ramming Linux and Open Source down MS's throat in the server market, but I'm afraid it won't be enough for the desktop. Still, IBM once felt invincible and was knocked out by a little upstart.

I love OS X and I wish someone had done something like this a long time ago - Apple, Sun, Next, RedHat... I hope it isn't too late.
 
the funny thing is that I've been running OS X on my B&W G3 400Mhz since the public beta and IE had only crashed twice in all of that time.

However in the month that I've had my shiny new g4 867Mhz IE has crashed many many times.

Is this maybe related to hardware... or is it more likely something to do with the G4 being a clean install of 10.1 (Upgraded to 10.1.1)?
 
IE also crashes on an G3 iMac 500 with 9.x/10.1 on the same partition.
But now that you mention it, I haven't had a crash in a long time. Could it be that 10.1.1 has actually solved a few problems?
 
IE crashes on me, but Interarchy is another big crasher. I really wish I hadn't bought a license of it :mad:
 
Originally posted by Chris Belwinds
IE also crashes on an G3 iMac 500 with 9.x/10.1 on the same partition....
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Hey...yeah!!!

On my G3 I had OSX and OS 9 on seperate partitions and on my G4 I don't. (Both were running 10.1 until I made the G4 10.1.1)

Could that be it?
 
Its obvious why all these Applications don't work.............MICROSFOT! the devilish enemy of apple.
 
Originally posted by Vash137
Its obvious why all these Applications don't work.............MICROSFOT! the devilish enemy of apple.
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When did Microsoft get downgraded (upgraded?) from being The Devil to merely being "devil-ish"?
 
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