Anyone explain what it does to chrome? I'm using chrome on android, and it doesn't crash and the lock icon info doesn't show anything that jumps out as wrong.. ?
According to Fefe [1] (in German) it is the TLS Handshake.
This URL crashes Chrome/Chromium
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Re: This URL crashes Chrome/Chromium
#12IE11 gives a page can't be displayed. Investigating console reveals "code on this page disabled back and forward caching".
Re: This URL crashes Chrome/Chromium
#13Flagged. That's pretty annoying reirob; I assumed that would be a link to an article about the URL, since just crashing my browser was obviously a bad thing to do.
Question to downvoters: You don't ever click down the list of Hacker News submissions without thinking too hard first, or you don't think crashing my browser (and losing any state I had in them) is annoying?
Re: This URL crashes Chrome/Chromium
#14This also works in a html file with an img tag:
" rel="nofollow">https://demo.cmrg.net/">
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#15I'm not entirely sure what I expected when I clicked this.
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#16Crashed Chromium 33.0.1750.117 x86_64 built on Gentoo.
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#17Fell for it. I see what you did there...
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#18I thought the process-per-tab thing was meant to stop this sort of thing from taking the whole browser down.
Re: This URL crashes Chrome/Chromium
#19Stop posting a direct link that crashes the whole web browser, that is down right malicious!
It's some sort of regression and a patch is already in review: https://codereview.chromium.org/178003011/
Stop karma whoring with this irresponsible shit.
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