The WYSIWYG editor dims out whenever I try to (fill in the blank)
There is a problem with the WYSIWYG editor (CKEditor) and Internet Explorer (IE) when there are many stylesheets in the theme. IE has a known bug where it can only load a limited amount of style sheets. Therefore, when you try to do an action in the editor which would open up a dialog box, it'll crash. If you must use IE, then you'll need to turn on Minification to reduce the number of css stylesheet links being loaded (btw, this might speed up page loading slightly)
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