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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)

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post #18

On older versions of Chrome just goes to google.com and searches for this string. That's why i disabled automatic updates on my phone. Give me a changelog and i update. Bug fixes and performance improvements it's not a changelog.

Yeah I am in the same boat - however most apps just have a changelog message similar to "We cleaned the app under the hood. It works now better."

Re: Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the browser (Warning: or worse)

#22

Warning: 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.

Clearing cache was sufficient enough for me to launch Chrome and quickly close the tab.

I just closed chrome, reopened hit and immediately hit the home button at the top left. That was enough to get me to safety.

Re: Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the browser (Warning: or worse)

#24
post #3

Warning: 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.

Off Topic: I don't get it why, after 10 years of mobile browser development, there still is no "close all tabs at end" option. Every time I visit my parents, I have to clean up their 150+ open chrome android tabs because they don't understand how to properly clean up their browsing sessions. Why on earth would I want to open the same old tabs in the morning, that I already looked at the day before?

Re: Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the browser (Warning: or worse)

#25
post #7

On 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.

I have a Redmi Note 7 and it blocked chrome for a minute, but after closing and reopening it the issue resolved itself. Weird, seems very system dependant.

Re: Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the browser (Warning: or worse)

#26
post #7

On 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.

> On XiaoMi phones at least, this is a system app

You mean on Xaiomi OS's (I forget their name).

Re: Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the browser (Warning: or worse)

#27
post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Off Topic: I don't get it why, after 10 years of mobile browser development, there still is no "close all tabs at end" option. Every time I visit my parents, I have to clean up their 150+ open chrome android tabs because they don't understand how to properly clean up their browsing sessions. Why on earth would I want to open the same old tabs in the morning, that I already looked at the day before?

Because they are the tabs with your email, facebook, news, and and and.

Re: Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the browser (Warning: or worse)

#28
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From some bugs (or serious consequences in fact) they do, don't they?

You can easily shoot yourself in the foot in any language.

For one thing that are plenty of toy languages where you'd be lucky to do anything in particular, including shoot yourself in the foot, "easily".

But also there are languages which have much higher bars for safety than you seem to have imagined. Notice how WUFFS doesn't have a "Hello, world." example program because printing out Hello, World is way too dangerous to be allowed in WUFFS even on purpose.

Re: Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the browser (Warning: or worse)

#29

I 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.

well most people work for $$ or for promotion so usually bug fixing is less important than landing some new privacy sandbox advertisement things. Also by reviewing code carefully doesn't make you stride the ladder. And if there are bugs they can just tell their manager we fixed this bug etc.And Google organization structure incentivize them. And now google has hegemony on Desktop browser and controls the engine they can get away easily. This is also probably reason why many products are simply killed by google.

Re: Opening http://../foo on Android Chrome crashes the browser (Warning: or worse)

#30
post #7

On 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.

> On XiaoMi phones at least, this is a system app You mean on Xaiomi OS's (I forget their name).

Miui
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