[🐛 Bug]: IE page crashed when trigger `window.open`

[kvii]

What happened?

IE page crashed when pages use window.open. You can execute this code in python-side or browser-side, even in IEChooser(dev tools).

Screenshot:

How can we reproduce the issue?

Follow this [reproduce repo](https://github.com/kvii/reproduce_ie_driver_crash).

Relevant log output

PS C:\Users\13721\workspace\github.com\kvii\reproduce_ie_driver_crash> python main.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\13721\workspace\github.com\kvii\reproduce_ie_driver_crash\main.py", line 8, in <module>
    driver.execute_script('window.open("b.html")')
  File "C:\Users\13721\workspace\github.com\kvii\reproduce_ie_driver_crash\.env\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 528, in execute_script
    return self.execute(command, {"script": script, "args": converted_args})["value"]
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\13721\workspace\github.com\kvii\reproduce_ie_driver_crash\.env\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 429, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "C:\Users\13721\workspace\github.com\kvii\reproduce_ie_driver_crash\.env\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 232, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.JavascriptException: Message:

Operating System

Windows 11 专业版 23H2 22631.4602

Selenium version

Python 4.28.1

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Microsoft Edge 132.0.2957.140(64)

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

IEDriver 4.14 win32

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No response

[github-actions]

@kvii, thank you for creating this issue. We will troubleshoot it as soon as we can.

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[github-actions]

Hi, @kvii.
This issue has been determined to require fixes in MSEdgeDriver
or in the IE Mode in Edge.

You can see if the feature is passing in the Web Platform Tests.

If it is something new, please create an Issue with the MSEdgeDriver team.

Feel free to comment the issues that you raise back in this issue. Thank you.

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