Designer crashes by closing internal browser

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When I close the internal "Web Browser" view of eclipse (to save memory) the Designer JVM crashes after a few seconds. A hs_err_pidXXX.log file is written into the root directory of the Designer. It shows that some native ieframe.dll was executed during the crash:

# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x000007fef0536890, pid=5480, tid=5336
#
# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (7.0_60-b19) (build 1.7.0_60-b19)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (24.60-b09 mixed mode windows-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C  [ieframe.dll+0x146890]

how can I avoid this error?

Accepted Answer

It is an Eclipse Bug that occurs together with IE 11.0.12 and lower. See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=444005

The bug is automatically fixed by upgrading to IE 11.0.13 trough Windows Update or by manually installing the update KB2987107.

You can also try to fix settings the internal Browser to run in Legacy mode (with IE 10). Therefore you have to go to the windows registry and set or modify the entry:

Computer/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Main/FeatureControl/FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION/Axon.ivy Designer.exe

Set the value to Decimal 10000 and Axon.ivy Designer internal browser emulates IE 10.

browser emulation registry editor

See the following references for more details: change emulated IE version or Configuring IE emulation

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