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Access Releases 7 Issue Fixes in Version 2311 (Released November 25th, 2023)
It really is important to release these notes earlier. Over the last two weeks I have had two different client applications crashing whenever a form containing the Edge Browser control was opened. It coincided with the release of office V2311 but the official release notes did not list any Access changes and had no mention of the Edge Browser control.
I have managed to isolate the problem to the following:
If a form does something with its recordset in the Open or Load event handlers, it is forced to do a sort of "double-load". This allows it to completely load in the background during the initial Load event so that it may complete the recordset operation. It then proceeds to run the later event handlers. This behaviour can be observed by multiple occurrences of the form's Current event and events within any subforms, first during the premature load invoked by the Load event, and then again when the Load event has completed and it there own turn to run.
If the form with this behaviour contains the modern web browser control and the version is V2311, Access crashes. The web control does not need any code, merely its presence causes the crash.