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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.
Disable your spell checker and it will stop crashing. Then you can delete the message, and re-enable the spell checker.
Hilarious. I pranked my friend with this, and now he's pissed. Oh well, it was certainly worth it. Interesting, though, what exactly causes this bug. It seems as if the built-in spellcheck seems to misinterpret the string "file:///" as some sort of alien construct, or perhaps false typed directories trigger some sort of lockdown. Either way, it's very puzzling how this sort of thing made it past the OS X developers,…
Doesn't Apple's quality control only apply to hardware? I hear people complain about bugs and just shear ugliness of their software pretty often.
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checkDataDetectors will extract 'File://a/' - or any other 'complete' file URL - which at a minimum is a schema (file://) and a path '/' - as a valid data URL and then pass it to DDResultCopyExtractURL, which does some additional sanity checking. There it validates it by asserting that the URL begins with 'file://', which it doesn't. It then converts to an NSInternalInconsistencyException which is what crashes the ap…
Can you clarify what about that output shows that the crash cannot be exploited? Not doubting, just curious.
I think the title needs to be amended to say 'OS X Mountain Lion' because the bug is not reproducible in Lion or Snow Leopard ...
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Great. Now, can you say who ever said that it was voodoo ? I only see someone who said that it was safe to type it in a software, but I can be wrong.
> can you say who ever said that it was voodoo Listing every single app under the sun when it's completely obvious a common and widely used component (doesn't matter what's its name so really no need to know Cocoa and that it's probably NSTextView) is used is acknowledging it as voodoo.
Right now, Sublime seems to be the only one. Anyone care to try TextMate?
Tried it out by sending an email to myself (from webmail) and opening the mail in Mail.app. Mail.app doesn't crash, but if you hit reply to the message and put the cursor on the "File:///" part, it does crash.
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Add Messages.app to that list, I discovered as I stupidly tried to explain how to repro it to someone..
I dare not try it, but having that text as status on Facebook could crash those viewing my status using Safaris?
in other words, this would wreak a lot of havoc: window.location = "File:///"