A comment from Bob Fox (numinibus per Twitter, @bfox11b) admonuisti me cogitabat CONJECTO celerem blog introitu describens queritur et solutionem meam Internet Explorer prorae me omni tempore.

Paucos ante menses cesserint, Possedi novum laptop (Dell Vostro 1720). This is my first 64 bit machine and I was running 64 bit IE8. Super tempus, it started to crash unpredictably, but frequently (probably every day). It’s pretty agile at recovering from all that, but it was a real nuisance.

The problem seems to have been an adobe plugin, “Air” or their flash plugin – I don’t really know what it’s called or care all that much. It turns out that it’s not compatible with a 64 bit environment (which is *totally* reasonable; it’s not like 64 bit is the kind of thing that anyone except ***crazy*** companies want to support or anything). I tried to uninstall it but that experiment only lasted about 15 minutes. It turns out that a ridiculous number of sites are using flash tech (I may be the last one to realize this on the planet). Ita, I can’t live without it and I can’t use IE8 64 frenum.

My answer is to switch to 32bit IE8. It’s been smooth sailing since then.

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