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

    Actually, it should be unescaped to %00.

  4. 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."