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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. Internet Explorer Haters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm sure there are bugs in most browsers which can cause them to crash or not work properly. I know that loading up AOL webmail in Firefox will cause it to crash, not sure why though.

    The point is, this article has been posted on /. because the poster expects a tirade of "I hate M$" style comments, there is nothing particularly interesting about the news item and I'm sure it will get fixed in due course. Clearly the html required to cause the crash is not prevalent across the web else it would have been discovered sooner.

    If this was digg, we could bury this post, and I for one would do so.

  2. That About Sums It Up by smitth1276 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think this article pretty much sums up all of the juvenility and the lack of sophistication and intelligence of the slashdot community. To think it is somehow useful to crash the browser of someone visiting your website is to be a complete moron and a jackass... the whole "I Hate M$" thing was cute for a while, but its time to grow the fuck up for a lot of you people.