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Binary patch, for entertainment purposes only, do not actually use: http://twitter.com/landonfuller/status/297592929923502080
https://gist.github.com/4696484
(remember to change to File)
Chrome survives, while Safari either crashes or behaves erratically up to being unusable. Firefox requires slight modifications to the event, but I'm bored.
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You mean iTerm or iTerm2 http://www.iterm2.com ?
He without a doubt means iTerm2.
Also Sent myself an email (from the iPhone) with File:/// as the subject (and in the body for good measure). The Mail.app won't crash on the incoming email, but it won't open that message.
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I try to avoid upgrading OSX. When a new version comes out, I wait for a hardware refresh and just get a new Mac (Apple has a nasty habit of disregarding backwards compatibility, and it's really nice to be able to do stuff like run older powerpc programs) EDIT: the [deleted] comment was 'I miss snow leopard'
On the hardware front, every single major update runs better than the one before here (Mid '09 MBP 13", originally under Leopard). Only issues were the battery on Lion an Mountain Lion on both .0 and .1 minors, which was a bug that affected everyone.
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?
"- but, it should never happen?!"
"- so, make it not happen, ever"
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I try to avoid upgrading OSX. When a new version comes out, I wait for a hardware refresh and just get a new Mac (Apple has a nasty habit of disregarding backwards compatibility, and it's really nice to be able to do stuff like run older powerpc programs) EDIT: the [deleted] comment was 'I miss snow leopard'
I then upgraded my kids' Snow Leopard Mac to Mountain Lion so I'd only have one Mac OS to admin (along with my Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android machines...sigh). The Mountain Lion upgrade caused all sorts of headaches on the kids' machine.
Moral: The new Mac OS version you buy might not be compatible with your Mac, even if it's the OS that came with it.
Fun exploit of this - you can use it to lock up Safari hard: http://grack.com/hangsafari.html (not a reduced testcase - it's more of a brute force) You can also trigger a mailto: link that crashes Mail: mailto:pete@bar.com?subject=File:///&body=File:///
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.
Sublime Text will crash if you type File:/// into the help textbox in the help menu. (This is true of basically every OSX app there is)