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Crash Chrome With 16 Characters

Posted by timothy on from the you-go-first dept.

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).

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  1. It's not just Chrome by Duckman5 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I just fired up Opera (shares the Blink engine) and gave it a try. Sure enough, it crashed and restarted. Wonder where the issue is...

  2. Didn't crash... by karolbe · · Score: 0, Informative

    Didn't crash on Linux - Chrome 44

  3. Chromium 45.0.2454.93 Crashes by behrooz0az · · Score: 4, Informative

    [6918:6918:0919/221732:FATAL:navigation_controller_impl.cc(927)] Check failed: active_entry->site_instance() == rfh->GetSiteInstance().
    Doesn't crash if the url is passed as an argument. Just opens up about:blank(not default behavior)
    4.1.6-1-ARCH x86_64 GNU/Linux

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  4. Does not crash Chromium by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    According to TFS, it should work on v45 and older. It does not crash Chromium. I entered "http: //a/%%30%30" (without the quotes) then "http://a/%%30%30" (without the quotes) into the address bar, and it just took me to the Startpage web search in both cases (as it should). FWIW, I'm using Chromium Version 44.0.2403.89 Ubuntu 14.04 (64-bit), on Xubuntu 14.04.

  5. Re:Interesting by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, it should be unescaped to %00.

  6. Gee, I tried a 16-character URL and it worked fine by Guy+Harris · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

    Gee, I typed in http://sonic.com and hit Enter, and it worked Just Fine.

    Perhaps they meant to say "Typing in a particular 16-character link, clicking on a particular 16-character link, or even just putting your cursor over a particular 16-character link, will crash Google's browser."