Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X • Hacker News Board

Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X

#91

Post by untog » Sat, Feb 02, 2013, 4:50 AM UTC

Gorbzel wrote: post #82

paulschreiber wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seriously, people, learn how to read a backtrace. This is hacker news, not social-media-manager-who-claims-they-are-a-geek news.

Couldn't have said it better. People act completely stupid when it comes to their OS. HOLY SHIT THERE'S A STANDARD TEXT FIELD CLASS?!?!?! APPLE IS DOOMZ0R3D!! Be a champ and submit these kind of things to your local devs and (as the super "hacker" posters say) carry on...

Oh, please. What is a standard text field class doing with the text inputted into it that would cause an entire app to crash? It's a ridiculous scenario.

Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X

#92

Post by lostlogin » Sat, Feb 02, 2013, 4:52 AM UTC

andymcsherry wrote: post #54

Crashes search in iTunes

Weird - doesn't for me, just asked me if I wanted to search App Store. But kills finder, makes chrome do odd stuff etc.

Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X

#93

Post by ramchip » Sat, Feb 02, 2013, 4:53 AM UTC

paulschreiber wrote: post #66

zbowling wrote: post #45

Everything crashing: - Skype (type and right mouse click) - Sparrow (type and wait) - Chrome (address bar) - Safari (address bar) - Tweetbot - Twitter.app - Mac App Store (search bar) - Base (any textbox) - terminal (in the preferences screen) Not crashing: - SublimeText Pretty much each and every text box on the entire system.

That's because SublimeText doesn't use NSTextFields, and therefore, doesn't use Data Detectors. It's not voodoo.

I don't think the poster implied anything else.

Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X

#94

Post by jzwinck » Sat, Feb 02, 2013, 5:10 AM UTC

untog wrote: post #91

Gorbzel wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Couldn't have said it better. People act completely stupid when it comes to their OS. HOLY SHIT THERE'S A STANDARD TEXT FIELD CLASS?!?!?! APPLE IS DOOMZ0R3D!! Be a champ and submit these kind of things to your local devs and (as the super "hacker" posters say) carry on...

Oh, please. What is a standard text field class doing with the text inputted into it that would cause an entire app to crash? It's a ridiculous scenario.

Would you have the standard text field run in a separate process sandbox? Or not have standard widgets shared between apps? Or just try real hard to write code without bugs?

Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X

#95

Post by jhenkens » Sat, Feb 02, 2013, 5:11 AM UTC

mh- wrote: post #55

zbowling wrote: post #45

Everything crashing: - Skype (type and right mouse click) - Sparrow (type and wait) - Chrome (address bar) - Safari (address bar) - Tweetbot - Twitter.app - Mac App Store (search bar) - Base (any textbox) - terminal (in the preferences screen) Not crashing: - SublimeText Pretty much each and every text box on the entire system.

Add Messages.app to that list, I discovered as I stupidly tried to explain how to repro it to someone..

The fun thing about having it in messages.app, is it is actually a bug on the RECEIVING end of messages.app. And I can't seem to delete the message before the app crashes again.

I'm so happy I have nice friends.

Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X

#96

Post by spiritplumber » Sat, Feb 02, 2013, 5:12 AM UTC

Fail:///

Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X

#97

Post by kc0bfv » Sat, Feb 02, 2013, 5:21 AM UTC

Several people have said that these apps are crashing at an assert. How did asserts make it into production code? Is it just a C thing to make them debug-only?

Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X

#98

Post by bsno » Sat, Feb 02, 2013, 5:21 AM UTC

Do not send this string in an iMessage, unless, of course, you're evil.

Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X

#99

Post by jensen2k » Sat, Feb 02, 2013, 5:24 AM UTC

I put ut a JSFiddle crashing Safari. This is fun. http://jsfiddle.net/EJzhH/3

Re: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X

#100

Post by shess » Sat, Feb 02, 2013, 5:32 AM UTC

NelsonMinar wrote: post #24

Hilariously, this bug seems to also crash the Mac error reporter, maybe because it has the evil string in it. I did manage to copy and paste a crash dump before the crash reporter crashed: http://pastebin.com/UkhERvaA The underlying reported error is * Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'condition "wrong extraction: File:///"' Interesting that it's an asynchronous cr…

If you're stuck because you typed this and now your app is automatically crashing itself all the time, go to System Preferences, under Language & Text, Text, uncheck "Correct spelling automatically" _and_ "Use symbol and text substitution". Both need to be unchecked.