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This page crashes Internet Explorer, even version 9 and 10.

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Re: This page crashes Internet Explorer, even version 9 and 10.

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Post by xSwag »

ecaron wrote: post #39

I'm the author that discovered this bug - and went way out of my way to tell the Internet Explorer team about it. I uncovered the error while working on a client's SharePoint site and figuring out why a certain page always caused their computer to freeze up. The most amazing part of this exercise has been analyzing the traffic trends. This page gets a crazy amount of traffic in Japan and China - I still can't figure…

Its probably people trolling the internet users in those countries using an iframe because they couldn't replicate the crash or couldn't be bothered hosting it. Internet Explorer is still the main browser in China and Japan

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-CN-monthly-201105-201205

Re: This page crashes Internet Explorer, even version 9 and 10.

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Post by notatoad »

mibbitier wrote: post #28
DrJokepu wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obviously this is a bug in IE that needs to be fixed and it's Microsoft's responsibility to ensure that their browser doesn't crash in invalid input, but end users don't actually care about the browser either (they don't even know what a browser is), they care about your site crashing.

That's incorrect. If your TV crashed would you blame the TV program you were watching at the time? People know the difference between software and content. Content should never be able to crash software.

if my TV shut down every time i tried to watch one specific show and never any other time, i might blame that show, yes.

people should know the difference, but they don't.

Re: This page crashes Internet Explorer, even version 9 and 10.

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Post by maratd »

Wow. I guess Microsoft is still the pinata.

I write web-based software. Every day.

I have made every browser crash and become completely non-responsive, many times over. Chrome. Firefox. Opera. All of them.

Now, this is mostly through JavaScript, when I do something stupid by manipulating the DOM the wrong way or some other funny thing. I fix it and keep going. Because breaking the browser is bad.

Want to report it to the vendor? Great. Fine. Making a website dedicated to the crash? Waaaay too much time on your hands.

Re: This page crashes Internet Explorer, even version 9 and 10.

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Post by peetahb »

barista wrote: post #34
ExxKA wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree. It's a horrible read. Good thing their marketing department hasn't caught up with this... yet

It probably did. Long time ago. IE on RC build of Windows 8 does not crash.

Well yeah, but 3 years after the fact.

Re: This page crashes Internet Explorer, even version 9 and 10.

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Post by ecaron »

smarx wrote: post #44
ecaron wrote: post #39

I'm the author that discovered this bug - and went way out of my way to tell the Internet Explorer team about it. I uncovered the error while working on a client's SharePoint site and figuring out why a certain page always caused their computer to freeze up. The most amazing part of this exercise has been analyzing the traffic trends. This page gets a crazy amount of traffic in Japan and China - I still can't figure…

Where is the bug report? I'd be curious to read the response from Microsoft. (The link on the page is just to a Google Group discussion, which doesn't appear to have participation from Microsoft.)

https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/554467/loa...

Re: This page crashes Internet Explorer, even version 9 and 10.

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Post by eswangren »

Estragon wrote: post #49
eli wrote: post #7

Is this a big deal? It's amusing that it is such a simple chunk of HTML, but I was under the impression that it's not terribly difficult to DoS the average browser. I accidentally discovered some very simple HTML that reliably crashes Outlook whenever you try to view or preview the message a while back. I reported it and I think they eventually fixed it.

How do you DoS chrome?

Facebook seems to have no problem crashing Chrome on my three machines.
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