Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the browser (Warning: or worse)
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Re: Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the browser (Warning: or worse)
#2Warning: if you do this on your Android phone at the moment, you may have to completely clean your Chrome application storage to be able to use the app afterwards.
Re: Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the browser (Warning: or worse)
#3Warning: if you do this on your Android phone at the moment, you may have to completely clean your Chrome application storage to be able to use the app afterwards.
> Note: this is even worse if the URL was opened from an intent. In that case, Chrome can end up completely bricked because upon restart it will immediately attempt to re-open the URL that crashed it. I could not recover from this without having to fully "Clear Storage".
Too late for me. Not even from intent. Chrome force stop later, it still tries to load it and immediately crashes.
Re: Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the browser (Warning: or worse)
#4Is "foo" used to mean any string, or is it literally only "../foo" that crashes it?
Re: Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the browser (Warning: or worse)
#5My bet is on url parser in unsafe language
Re: Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the browser (Warning: or worse)
#6I just did and the whole phone was frozen. I couldn't force close Chrome, nor do a graceful power off. After 2 min, a notification came up that allowed me to finally close the browser.
Amazing how even after an army of contributors and a fairly old project still has bugs as trivial and yet significant as this one. It's a regression, but even so.
Re: Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the browser (Warning: or worse)
#7On XiaoMi phones at least, this is a system app (see: bloatware). That means you can't clear its app data nor uninstall it, effectively bricking Chrome permanently.
The only thing you can do is uninstall the updates, which force resets its persistence, losing all of your stored data/sessions.
If you've already done that... tough luck, I guess?
What an awful bug.
Re: Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the browser (Warning: or worse)
#8Did this to Chrome on Android & it crashed, but only for the first time. Subsequent requests simply took me to google search results instead of resolving the URL.
Re: Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the browser (Warning: or worse)
#9My bet is on url parser in unsafe language
You realize "safe" languages don't protect you from all bugs, right?
So tired of this narrative on HN.
Re: Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the browser (Warning: or worse)
#10Is "foo" used to mean any string, or is it literally only "../foo" that crashes it?
Any string, does not apply to brave so not a seemingly a webkit issue