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Bring Down Internet Explorer In Six Words

Posted by kdawson on from the don't-you-think-she-looks-tired dept.

Marcion writes "Some handy Japanese guy called Hamachiya discovered a bug in Internet Explorer. Under certain conditions, an asterisk when used as a wildcard can crash IE as soon as the user attempts to go to another page." The article claims the "five HTML tags and a CSS declaration" crash IE7 as well as IE6, but I couldn't get IE7 to fail. This page says that as of June, IE6 was at about 37% market share and IE7 under 20%.

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  1. Bring Down Internet Explorer In Six Words by rvw · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's seven words!

  2. Re:How is this fucking useful ?? by somersault · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    When your shit has more than 200HP then it's probably useful to know the temperature

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    which is totally what she said
  3. Re:How is this fucking useful ?? by somersault · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually my warrior has closer to 3000HP, but I probably play a different game to you ;)

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    which is totally what she said
  4. Six words? by TheSeer2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  5. Re:How is this fucking useful ?? by Mr.+Vage · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why would I need to know the temperature of my Blissey?

  6. Re:How is this fucking useful ?? by somersault · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    *looks up Blissey on google*

    In case it cooks its egg by mistake

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    which is totally what she said