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In IE5.0, we found that there was a serious bug in a third-party browser plug-in. The details of the bug are not mentioned, and it is not very important. The problem is that this bug is too serious, it will cause frequent IE crashes.
This is not so good.
In order to ensure the user experience, we mark this plug-in as "not recommended" so that IE will not load it easily.
Later, we received a letter from the company that developed this plugin: They were very angry and asked us to remove the "deprecated" mark.
What's the matter?
Because they just want users to periodically crash when using Internet Explorer.
At the same time, they also hope that this browser crash can be directly caught by the Windows Error Reporting component, so that an error report dialog box will pop up, which says: "This error has been fixed, please click here for more information More information".
When the user clicks on this more information, the user will be redirected to the company's homepage, which says: Only XXX yuan can be upgraded to the new version. (I may have forgotten whether the upgrade is free, but if you really paid for the upgrade, it would be interesting)
In other words, they crashed the IE browser just for users to pay to upgrade the plug-in.
The issue is…
Smart readers may have noticed: If the plug-in causes the browser to crash, how can the user browse the company's homepage? Not to mention paying to purchase upgrades.
This is indeed very interesting.
At last
Raymond Chen's "The Old New Thing" is one of my favorite blogs. It contains a lot of little knowledge about Windows, which is really helpful for the majority of Windows platform developers.
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