re: #138 prononymous

Charles, a virtual machine could really help in these situations. That way you can just run a VM for each of the configurations/browsers that you rarely use and never have to even touch the config of any of your installed OSes. And you can easily clone/backup VMs so altering a config and really screwing stuff up is basically a non-issue as well.

My dream is nearly here where OSes are reduced to the level of libraries. The future is now. :)

That’s what I already use. I have separate VMs for XP, Vista, and Windows 7, and I thought I had Explorer 6, 7, and 8 installed, respectively. But one of those automatic updates in the endless series of updates that happens nearly every time you boot up Windows went ahead and updated IE to version 8, in the Vista VM, without my knowledge. Hate it when that happens. That’s why I had to uninstall version 8.

The IE7 crashing problem is very strange, though. I completely disabled all Javascript and that didn’t fix it. Turned off ads, didn’t fix it. The crash report says it’s crashing in mshtml.dll, which suggests some bad HTML code, but the page validates perfectly with the WC3 validator.

Puzzling.