Bring Down Internet Explorer In Six Words

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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yea yea

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well let us not forget that many things can crash firefox too.. especially in linux.. firefox simply disappears sometimes with no crash analysis or anything.. but regardless, internet explorer users need to trash IE6 right now.. it amazes me that people still use it.. i know for some it is required for development reasons and certain programs need it as well.. but that's no excuse for the rest of people out there too lazy or ignorant to install a stable and more secure newer version of IE.. i personally think IE7 is a freakin' great browser from the perspective of a user who uses both FF2 and IE on a regular basis in a shlew of different OS's..