IE 10 crashes when script is loaded, unless a delay is introduced - internet-explorer-10

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I recently learned that the app I'm working on frequently crashes Internet Explorer 10 - no error messages, just Windows' "The application stopped working". Looking at the Event Viewer shows what I gather is a null reference in mshtml.dll:
Faulting application name: iexplore.exe, version: 10.0.9200.17267, time stamp: 0x54e7f156
Faulting module name: MSHTML.dll, version: 10.0.9200.17267, time stamp: 0x54e803bf
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x004f9b17
Faulting process id: 0xeec
Faulting application start time: 0x01d0657e1d8a29f6
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\MSHTML.dll
I've discovered that this happens when loading the first script on the page, which is jQuery. I've tried two different versions: 1.10.2 and 1.11.2, with the same result.
It turns out that introducing a small delay before loading jQuery (and the rest of the scripts) solves the issue. I've added this snippet before all other scripts:
if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE 10') >= 0) {
var t = new Date().getTime();
while (new Date().getTime() - t < 300);
}
This seemingly solves the problem. However, it is clearly very inelegant and I still don't know what the actual problem is.
Has anyone experienced something similar, and is there a better solution?