# Phillips screwdrivers crash IE

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**Created:** [October 15, 2007, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phillips-screwdrivers-crash-ie/422760 "2007-10-15T05:22:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phillips-screwdrivers-crash-ie/422760/1 "2007-10-15T05:22:25Z")

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Not really.

But I was reading the BBQ Pit thread about phillips screwdrivers, which contained a link to Cecil’s column on the subject. I opened the link, and after about 20 seconds, got a fatal error that caused the browser to close. I’m running Win XP, IE7.

Anyone else experience this?  
ETA

> **[Damned Phillips Head Screws](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=440176)**
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> Any goddamned manufacture that uses a phillips head screw on anything other than a disposable screw should make him/her self available to me so that I may wrap piano wire around their pinkie fingers and attach the other end to my garage door and...

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phillips-screwdrivers-crash-ie/422760/2 "2007-10-15T11:33:30Z")

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Just tried it, everything loaded fine, could not reproduce your experience.

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**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phillips-screwdrivers-crash-ie/422760/3 "2007-10-15T13:59:41Z")

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[QUOTE=TubaDiva]  
Just tried it, everything loaded fine, could not reproduce your experience.  
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Hunh. Just a dis-combobulation in the Gremlin/Hamster interface, then. If that’s not too technical. 😉