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Crash Chrome With 16 Characters
An anonymous reader writes: Remember when it took just eight characters to crash Skype? Apparently it takes double that to take out Chrome: Typing in a 16-character link and hitting enter, clicking on a 16-character link, or even just putting your cursor over a 16-character link, will crash Google's browser. To try it yourself, fire up Chrome 45 (the latest stable version) or older and put this into your address bar: http: //a/%%30%30 (without the space).
Which begs the question: of the tens of billions of dollars Google sees each year, how much goes toward writing an automated test suite for their flagship client software?
Which begs the question: how many people will ignore the question in favour of correcting my usage of "begs the question"?
Which begs the question: how many Americans will read "favour" and think "fucking smartass Brit"?
Which begs the question: how many British people will think, "Smartarse, surely"?
Which begs the question: how many people are thinking, "Ok, this isn't funny anymore"?
Which begs the question: how many people are now thinking, "Dude, this post was never funny"?
I type //a/%%30%30 all the time! (It's the combination to my luggage)
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
Sure... the older something is, the higher its age... so Chrome 44 is younger than Chrome 45.
It's 2015 and browsers are not properly sanitizing the URL bar?
That's why I'm waiting for the Lysol® browser... :-(
*Lysol® Browser does not sanitize the keyboard or mouse!
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
I tried it on Internet Explorer and not only did the browser crash, it billed me for $299.95. Also, every site I browse now appears to be Russian porn.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Mine just pulled up website with Larry Paige telling me I got the golden ticket and will am invited to tour the Google Chocolate Factory with my uncle Joe.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Every time you change code... you stand a chance of introducing a bug.
Maybe the code doesn't want to change...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”