EMET 5.2 Breaks Internet Explorer 11

Using Windows 8.1 with Internet Explorer 11, EMET 5.2 causes Internet Explorer to crash just by navigating to a website. I'm using 'Recommended Security' settings in EMET, with the default 'Popular Software' protection profile.
1) Open Internet Explorer
2) Either go to a website such as http://www.amazon.co.uk/ or alternatively just open IE and wait for 30 seconds without doing anything
3) Browser crashes and says 'Internet Explorer has stopped working'
4) Error reporting shows the following:
Faulting application name: iexplore.exe, version: 11.0.9600.17416, time stamp: 0x5452fe91
Faulting module name: EMET64.dll, version: 5.2.0.0, time stamp: 0x54ff88ee
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000048417
Faulting process ID: 0xf3c
Faulting application start time: 0x01d05d8898f1fd96
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\AppPatch\AppPatch64\EMET64.dll
Report ID: e8b7058f-c97b-11e4-82a7-0019d16e4234
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
5) Disabling ALL mitigations for Internet Explorer in the EMET 'Applications List' doesn't solve the issue. Internet Explorer has to be completely removed from the EMET 'Applications List' in order to prevent it from crashing.
6) Problem occurs regardless of whether Internet Explorer is running in 'Enable Enhanced Protected Mode' with 'Enable 64-bit processes for Enhanced Protected Mode' or not.
7) Needed to uninstall EMET 5.2 and go back to 5.1
In my case, as soon as I open IE, it crashes almost immediately. Deeply disappointed at MS now. First, there had happened a few times last year that Windows Update bricked the entire OS, for at least two times. Now it's this shxt. It's truly a disgrace.
With EVERY Windows update, the size of the OS increases by at least 2 GB each month. For my OS drive (120GB SSD) it's quite significant. I DON'T UNDERSTAND why the fxxk MS would push out such huge Windows Update every single month. To me, it's another evidence
how incompetent programmers at MS become. They have to heavily patch the holes in the OS every 30 DAYS, otherwise the OS will be taken advantage of by hackers. What a pathetic situation for MS.
I already decide to switch to Ubuntu and WPS Office Suite. I am typing this post on my Ubuntu 14.04.2 laptop. Bye-bye MS.

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/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
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// Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated.
// All rights reserved.
// Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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//   * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
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// bubbledTextEvent for Menu Bar
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        // if a node is within another node
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Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.keyFocus = function (listitem, e)
    this.lastOpen = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
    this.addClassName(this.lastOpen, listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul').length > 0 ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
    this.hasFocus = true;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.onBlur = function (listitem)
    this.clearSelection(listitem);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.clearSelection = function(el){
    //search any intersection with the current open element
    if (!this.lastOpen)
        return;
    if (el)
        el = el.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
        // check children
        var item = this.lastOpen;
        while (item != this.element)
            var tmp = el;
            while (tmp != this.element)
                if (tmp == item)
                    return;
                try{
                    tmp = tmp.parentNode;
                }catch(err){break;}
            item = item.parentNode;
    var item = this.lastOpen;
    while (item != this.element)
        this.hideSubmenu(item.parentNode);
        var link = item.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
        this.removeClassName(link, this.hoverClass);
        this.removeClassName(link, this.subHoverClass);
        item = item.parentNode;
    this.lastOpen = false;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.keyDown = function (e)
    if (!this.hasFocus)
        return;
    if (!this.lastOpen)
        this.hasFocus = false;
        return;
    var e = e|| event;
    var listitem = this.lastOpen.parentNode;
    var link = this.lastOpen;
    var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
    var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
    var hasSubMenu = (menu) ? true : false;
    var opts = [listitem, menu, null, this.getSibling(listitem, 'previousSibling'), this.getSibling(listitem, 'nextSibling')];
    if (!opts[3])
        opts[2] = (listitem.parentNode.parentNode.nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'li')?listitem.parentNode.parentNode:null;
    var found = 0;
    switch (e.keyCode){
        case this.upKeyCode:
            found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'y', 1);
            break;
        case this.downKeyCode:
            found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'y', -1);
            break;
        case this.leftKeyCode:
            found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'x', 1);
            break;
        case this.rightKeyCode:
            found = this.getElementForKey(opts, 'x', -1);
            break;
        case this.escKeyCode:
        case 9:
            this.clearSelection();
            this.hasFocus = false;
        default: return;
    switch (found)
        case 0: return;
        case 1:
            //subopts
            this.mouseOver(listitem, e);
            break;
        case 2:
            //parent
            this.mouseOut(opts[2], e);
            break;
        case 3:
        case 4:
            // left - right
            this.removeClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
            break;
    var link = opts[found].getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
    if (opts[found].nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'ul')
        opts[found] = opts[found].getElementsByTagName('li')[0];
    this.addClassName(link, opts[found].getElementsByTagName('ul').length > 0 ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
    this.lastOpen = link;
    opts[found].getElementsByTagName('a')[0].focus();
        //stop further event handling by the browser
    return Spry.Widget.MenuBar.stopPropagation(e);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.mouseOver = function (listitem, e)
    var link = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
    var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
    var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
    var hasSubMenu = (menu) ? true : false;
    if (this.enableKeyboardNavigation)
        this.clearSelection(listitem);
    if(this.bubbledTextEvent())
        // ignore bubbled text events
        return;
    if (listitem.closetime)
        clearTimeout(listitem.closetime);
    if(this.currMenu == listitem)
        this.currMenu = null;
    // move the focus too
    if (this.hasFocus)
        link.focus();
    // show menu highlighting
    this.addClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
    this.lastOpen = link;
    if(menu && !this.hasClassName(menu, this.subHoverClass))
        var self = this;
        listitem.opentime = window.setTimeout(function(){self.showSubmenu(menu);}, this.showDelay);
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.mouseOut = function (listitem, e)
    var link = listitem.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
    var submenus = listitem.getElementsByTagName('ul');
    var menu = (submenus.length > 0 ? submenus[0] : null);
    var hasSubMenu = (menu) ? true : false;
    if(this.bubbledTextEvent())
        // ignore bubbled text events
        return;
    var related = (typeof e.relatedTarget != 'undefined' ? e.relatedTarget : e.toElement);
    if(!listitem.contains(related))
        if (listitem.opentime)
            clearTimeout(listitem.opentime);
        this.currMenu = listitem;
        // remove menu highlighting
        this.removeClassName(link, hasSubMenu ? this.subHoverClass : this.hoverClass);
        if(menu)
            var self = this;
            listitem.closetime = window.setTimeout(function(){self.hideSubmenu(menu);}, this.hideDelay);
        if (this.hasFocus)
            link.blur();
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.getSibling = function(element, sibling)
    var child = element[sibling];
    while (child && child.nodeName.toLowerCase() !='li')
        child = child[sibling];
    return child;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.prototype.getElementForKey = function(els, prop, dir)
    var found = 0;
    var rect = Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getPosition;
    var ref = rect(els[found]);
    var hideSubmenu = false;
    //make the subelement visible to compute the position
    if (els[1] && !this.hasClassName(els[1], this.MenuBarSubmenuVisible))
        els[1].style.visibility = 'hidden';
        this.showSubmenu(els[1]);
        hideSubmenu = true;
    var isVert = this.hasClassName(this.element, this.verticalClass);
    var hasParent = els[0].parentNode.parentNode.nodeName.toLowerCase() == 'li' ? true : false;
    for (var i = 1; i < els.length; i++){
        //when navigating on the y axis in vertical menus, ignore children and parents
        if(prop=='y' && isVert && (i==1 || i==2))
            continue;
        //when navigationg on the x axis in the FIRST LEVEL of horizontal menus, ignore children and parents
        if(prop=='x' && !isVert && !hasParent && (i==1 || i==2))
            continue;
        if (els[i])
            var tmp = rect(els[i]);
            if ( (dir * tmp[prop]) < (dir * ref[prop]))
                ref = tmp;
                found = i;
    // hide back the submenu
    if (els[1] && hideSubmenu){
        this.hideSubmenu(els[1]);
        els[1].style.visibility = '';
    return found;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.camelize = function(str)
    if (str.indexOf('-') == -1){
        return str;
    var oStringList = str.split('-');
    var isFirstEntry = true;
    var camelizedString = '';
    for(var i=0; i < oStringList.length; i++)
        if(oStringList[i].length>0)
            if(isFirstEntry)
                camelizedString = oStringList[i];
                isFirstEntry = false;
            else
                var s = oStringList[i];
                camelizedString += s.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + s.substring(1);
    return camelizedString;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp = function(element, prop)
    var value;
    try
        if (element.style)
            value = element.style[Spry.Widget.MenuBar.camelize(prop)];
        if (!value)
            if (document.defaultView && document.defaultView.getComputedStyle)
                var css = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(element, null);
                value = css ? css.getPropertyValue(prop) : null;
            else if (element.currentStyle)
                    value = element.currentStyle[Spry.Widget.MenuBar.camelize(prop)];
    catch (e) {}
    return value == 'auto' ? null : value;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getIntProp = function(element, prop)
    var a = parseInt(Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp(element, prop),10);
    if (isNaN(a))
        return 0;
    return a;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getPosition = function(el, doc)
    doc = doc || document;
    if (typeof(el) == 'string') {
        el = doc.getElementById(el);
    if (!el) {
        return false;
    if (el.parentNode === null || Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp(el, 'display') == 'none') {
        //element must be visible to have a box
        return false;
    var ret = {x:0, y:0};
    var parent = null;
    var box;
    if (el.getBoundingClientRect) { // IE
        box = el.getBoundingClientRect();
        var scrollTop = doc.documentElement.scrollTop || doc.body.scrollTop;
        var scrollLeft = doc.documentElement.scrollLeft || doc.body.scrollLeft;
        ret.x = box.left + scrollLeft;
        ret.y = box.top + scrollTop;
    } else if (doc.getBoxObjectFor) { // gecko
        box = doc.getBoxObjectFor(el);
        ret.x = box.x;
        ret.y = box.y;
    } else { // safari/opera
        ret.x = el.offsetLeft;
        ret.y = el.offsetTop;
        parent = el.offsetParent;
        if (parent != el) {
            while (parent) {
                ret.x += parent.offsetLeft;
                ret.y += parent.offsetTop;
                parent = parent.offsetParent;
        // opera & (safari absolute) incorrectly account for body offsetTop
        if (Spry.is.opera || Spry.is.safari && Spry.Widget.MenuBar.getStyleProp(el, 'position') == 'absolute')
            ret.y -= doc.body.offsetTop;
    if (el.parentNode)
            parent = el.parentNode;
    else
        parent = null;
    if (parent.nodeName){
        var cas = parent.nodeName.toUpperCase();
        while (parent && cas != 'BODY' && cas != 'HTML') {
            cas = parent.nodeName.toUpperCase();
            ret.x -= parent.scrollLeft;
            ret.y -= parent.scrollTop;
            if (parent.parentNode)
                parent = parent.parentNode;
            else
                parent = null;
    return ret;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.stopPropagation = function(ev)
    if (ev.stopPropagation)
        ev.stopPropagation();
    else
        ev.cancelBubble = true;
    if (ev.preventDefault)
        ev.preventDefault();
    else
        ev.returnValue = false;
Spry.Widget.MenuBar.setOptions = function(obj, optionsObj, ignoreUndefinedProps)
    if (!optionsObj)
        return;
    for (var optionName in optionsObj)
        if (ignoreUndefinedProps && optionsObj[optionName] == undefined)
            continue;
        obj[optionName] = optionsObj[optionName];
And last, here is the HTML code that has also not been modified in any way:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script src="../BXC Main Navigation Spry Drop Menu/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="../BXC Main Navigation Spry Drop Menu/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal4.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Buy</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#">Shop from Private Owner</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Shop Direct from Stores</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Help Buying</a></li>
    </ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Bid</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#">Shop from Auction</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Help Bidding</a></li>
    </ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Trade</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#">Shop for Trades</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Help Trading</a></li>
    </ul>
</li>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">List Items</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#">List Items in Auction</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">List Items for Sale</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">List Items for Trade</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Help Listing Items</a></li>
    </ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Intro</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#">Flash Site &amp; Intro</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">About Us</a></li>
    </ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">My Xchange</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#">Activity</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Account</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Mail</a></li>
    </ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#">Contact Us</a></li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Help</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#">Main Help</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Site Map</a></li>
    </ul>
</li>
</ul>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>
Thanks in advance for any of your help.
Jose H.

Hello Nancy,
I was troubleshooting For the next 8 hours after my post here and eventually I got it right, I uploaded the files to the test server and at the time did not have the chance to post the solution here. This is why, as you saw, it is working correctly now. Both the CSS and HTML files needed modifications. While working on the code I had to run IE8, Chrome and Firefox simultaneously and refresh all three after every change in the code because what would fix the problem in one would cause a problem for the other.
In addition to the problems listed in my original post, there were also other graphical issues in IE8, such as; the main menu buttons without sub-menus would only display at half their size vertically. The border around the buttons would not display despite that the background images were rendered in Photoshop as flattened JPEGs with boarders as part of the background image. Being so, I removed all borders from the CSS script.
By the way.. the IE8 security measure did pop up while working from the server.
Anyhow for those of you who are experiencing similar problems you can take a look at the working code bellow and compare it to the initial code. I've included detail comments on every line I have changed, modified or added.
Good luck.. as I know it can become a complicated task when creating custom Spry menus.
<b>Here is the finished CSS script</b>
<code>@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css - version 0.6 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1 */
/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
LAYOUT INFORMATION: describes box model, positioning, z-order
/* The outermost container of the Menu Bar, an auto width box with no margin or padding */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal
    margin: 10;
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    /* font size for top menu*/
    font-size: 80%;
    cursor: default;
    width: auto;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-weight: bold;
    text-align: center;
    /*whole menu moves*/
    margin-left: 100px;
/* Set the active Menu Bar with this class, currently setting z-index to accomodate IE rendering bug: http://therealcrisp.xs4all.nl/meuk/IE-zindexbug.html */
ul.MenuBarActive
    z-index: 1000;
/* My Note --Top buttons' background, height and font size adjust-- */
/* Menu item containers, position children relative to this container and are a fixed width */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal li
    /* My note --I added the height and background-image as Main-Buttons.jpg-- */
    height: 55px;
    background-image: url(../Main-Buttons.jpg);
    margin: -2;
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 100%;
    position: center;
    /*text-align: left;*/
    cursor: pointer;
    width: 99px;
    float: left;
/* My note --Submenu font size adjust-- */
/* Submenus should appear below their parent (top: 0) with a higher z-index, but they are initially off the left side of the screen (-1000em) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    font-size: 87%;
    z-index: 1020;
    cursor: default;
    width: 160px;
    position: absolute;
    left: -1000em;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to auto so it comes onto the screen below its parent menu item */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
    /* My note --this margin alligns the drop buttons up and down-- */
    margin-top: 0px;
    height: 25px;
    left: auto;
/* My note --drop menu size adjustments-- */
/* Menu item containers are same fixed width as parent */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul li
    height: 25px;
    width: 162px;
    /* New addition */
/* Submenus should appear slightly overlapping to the right (95%) and up (-5%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul ul
    position:absolute;
    margin: -5% 0 0 95%;
/* Submenu that is showing with class designation MenuBarSubmenuVisible, we set left to 0 so it comes onto the screen */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible ul.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
    left: auto;
    top: 0;
DESIGN INFORMATION: describes color scheme, borders, fonts
/* Submenu containers have borders on all sides */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul
    /*border: 1px solid #CCC;*/
/* My note --Text Allignment global-- */
/* Menu items are a light gray block with padding and no text decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
    /*My note -- took out borders & changed text color to #333(black)& added my own mouse not over image-- */
    /*border: 0px solid #333332;*/
    background-image: url(../Main-Buttons.jpg);
    /*height: 40px;*/
    text-align: center;
    display: block;
    cursor: pointer;
    padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
    text-decoration: none;
    /*My note --Text Color-- */
    color: #333;        /*background-color: was #CCC;*/
    letter-spacing: -0.00px;
    margin-left: 1px;
    margin-right: 0px;
    /*alligns text up or down globally*/
    margin-top: 1px;
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus
    /* My note --took out all backgound & text color for mouse over-- */
    /*background-color: #33C;
    color: #FFF;*/
/* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to MenuBarItemHover with a blue background and white text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
    /*My note -- took out background & text & added my own mouse over image-- */
    background-image: url(../Main-Buttons-mouse-over.jpg);
    /*background-color: #33C;
    color: #FFF;*/
SUBMENU INDICATION: styles if there is a submenu under a given menu item
/* Menu items that have a submenu have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenu and are set to use a background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenu
    /* My note --!!!!!This height setting adjusts the main buttons' background height in IE8!!!!-- */
    height: 40px;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: 95% 50%;
/* Menu items that have a submenu have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenu and are set to use a background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenu
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: 95% 50%;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: 95% 50%;
/* My note --mouse over-- */
/* Menu items that are open with submenus have the class designation MenuBarItemSubmenuHover and are set to use a "hover" background image positioned on the far left (95%) and centered vertically (50%) */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: 95% 50%;
BROWSER HACKS: the hacks below should not be changed unless you are an expert
/* HACK FOR IE: to make sure the sub menus show above form controls, we underlay each submenu with an iframe */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal iframe
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 1010;
    filter:alpha(opacity:0.1);
/* HACK FOR IE: to stabilize appearance of menu items; the slash in float is to keep IE 5.0 from parsing */
@media screen, projection
    ul.MenuBarHorizontal li.MenuBarItemIE
        display: inline;
        f\loat: left;
        /* My note --The backgound color below was changed here to the same color #3e6487 as the darkest tone in the background image graphic to mimic the original image borders; dark blue, since IE8 for some reason would cut them out. This change allows this dark blue background to display around the main top buttons in IE8 giving the appearance of borders*/
        background: #3e6487;
</code>
<b>Here is the modified HTML script</b>
<code><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script src="/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarHorizontal4.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">Buy</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#">Shop from Private Owner</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Shop Direct from Stores</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Help Buying</a></li>
    </ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Bid</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#">Shop from Auction</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Help Bidding</a></li>
    </ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Trade</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#">Shop for Trades</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Help Trading</a></li>
    </ul>
</li>
<li><a class="MenuBarItemSubmenu" href="#">List Items</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#">List Items in Auction</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">List Items for Sale</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">List Items for Trade</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Help Listing Items</a></li>
    </ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Intro</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#">Flash Site &amp; Intro</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">About Us</a></li>
    </ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">My Xchange</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#">Activity</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Account</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Mail</a></li>
    </ul>
</li>

<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Contact Us</a>
<li><a href="#" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">Help</a>
    <ul>
      <li><a href="#">Main Help</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Site Map</a></li>
    </ul>
</li>
</ul>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>
</code>
And Richard.. Thanks again for the time and your help, truly appreciated.
Jose H.

Adobe Reader XI hangs Internet Explorer!

We support several clients and as each PC upgrades to Adobe Reader XI it breaks the IE Add-On (view in browser) capability.
The pdf starts to download, pops up in the browser, and then in about 5-10 seconds hangs until it times out (45 minutes later).
IE then throws up the error "A network error occurred while accessing this document on the Internet. Would you like to close the document or reload it?"
If the user downloads the pdf it works; if the user uses Chrome or FF it works! Have tried disabling the "Fast View". It just then allows me to see when it stops downloading.
I have tried Windows XP, Win7 & Win8 and different versions of IE and they all fail!
I am seeing this across all my clients!
Sometimes, if I disable the Add-on it will then download and open it in Adobe Reader but sometimes (haven't figured out the exact combination but IE9 & Win 7 fails) even though it's disabled, it still opens it in the browser and hangs.
I created a GPO that disables the Add-n but it continues to try to open it in the IE browser.
Help!

We've been testing this some more, and we've discovered our problem. We have a Xerox global print driver installed on our computers that runs our printer.
If we take a file created in the Microsoft Suite, whether Word or Excel, and print to PDF through the print driver, and then upload that file to a website and provide a link in a page for people to click, the PDF throws an error in Internet Explorer, giving the error listed above, and fails to open. The PDF opens fine locally through Internet Explorer, and you can view the file through the "View" option in Gmail. You can also view that file in Firefox and Chrome with no problem. And the file downloads just fine.
If we take the same file and use the "Save As" option in the Microsoft program to save the file as a PDF and upload that to a website, the file opens just fine in Internet Explorer, as well we everywhere else.
The print driver is doing something in the PDF-making process that bothers Internet Explorer.

Cannot download a file with internet explorer 6 using SSL connection

Hello,
I am working on a application that uses SSL. But when the clicks a button to donwload a file using IE 6 or IE 7, internet explorer shows a error message saying that "The internet explorer cannot open this site". This error dont occur in Firefox, but i have to use Internet Explorer. And the error occurs only if i use https, with http it works fine.
I search the net and i found that internet explorer has a bug, that when the server sends the http header "Pragma: no-cache" or "Cache-control: no-cache,max-age=0,must-revalidate", then the internet explorer doesnt cache the file, and i cannot open it. See here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316431/en-us
My problem is that OC4J appears to send this headers automatically. I am using Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Application Server Control 10.1.3.3.0. Here, is my code to send the file:
HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse)
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getResponse();
response.setContentType("application/x-download");
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachement; filename=\"file.pfx\"");
response.setContentLength((new Long(myFile.length())).intValue());
OutputStream out=null;
try {
out = response.getOutputStream();
fis = new FileInputStream(myFile);
int n;
while ((n = fis.available())> 0) {
b = new byte[n];
int result = fis.read(b);
out.write(b, 0, b.length);
if (result == -1) break;
out.flush();
out.close();
} catch (Exception e){
throw new DownloadException("Erro ao enviar arquivo para o stream de download.");
finally{
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().responseComplete();
You can see that i not send that headers in this code.
Here, is the headers sent to IE when i use https.
HTTP/1.x 200 OK
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 17:40:28 GMT
Server: Oracle-Application-Server-10g/10.1.2.0.2 Oracle-HTTP-Server
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-store
Surrogate-Control: no-store
Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT
Content-Length: 5208
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=ac1002292008f788e14d0d6e40c29f3185f2fc72e5b9.e3eTb3mTb3yKe34SbhqOaxyTe6fznA5Pp7ftnR9Jrl0; path=/actcers; secure
content-disposition: attachement; filename="file.pfx"
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=74
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: application/x-download
I hope that someone can helpme.
Tanks
Message was edited by:
user635088

Hi!
I don't have a solution fou you, just a few ideas =)
You can check what headers response contains with
response.containsHeader( "your_header_here");
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/sdk_1.2.1/techdocs/api/javax/servlet/http/HttpServletResponse.html#containsHeader(java.lang.String)
after that you could set/overwrite those headers that you don't like with, for example:
response.setHeader("Cache-control", "no-cache,max-age=0,must-revalidate");
Aparently Pragma and Cache-control headers should be used in pair, as noted here
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2005-12/0003.html
quote:"The author of Bad Behavior points out that RFC2616 requires that a
Pragma: header to be accompanied by a Cache-Control: header. From what I
see, it only says "SHOULD" (in section 14.32), but that is still a
strong recommendation and something to be considered, IMHO."
I'm a bit sceptical about you needing to cache the file, but if you feel strong about it, you could read this
http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/#META
If you're working on SSL there is supposed to be some kind of validation, certificate or something like that. IE6 and 7 both have strong security measures in these regards. Maybe you should look something up in that direction.
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