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

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

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Post by czhiddy » Sat, Feb 02, 2013, 2:41 AM UTC

taf2 wrote: post #29

so, uh anyone else sense a zero day exploit? ">click me ... not saying that will work, but usually if you can hard crash something you just found some corruption in memory maybe bad use of memcpy, sprintf instead of snprintf... something along those lines...

Highly unlikely. If you look at the backtrace, it's dying on an assert, not some random memory dereference.

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

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Post by grimgrin » Sat, Feb 02, 2013, 2:44 AM UTC

niggler wrote: post #13

pivo wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried iTerm?

You mean iTerm or iTerm2 http://www.iterm2.com ?

He without a doubt means iTerm2.

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

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Post by zacharypinter » Sat, Feb 02, 2013, 2:46 AM UTC

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.

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

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Post by eropple » Sat, Feb 02, 2013, 2:47 AM UTC

rsl7 wrote: post #34

pidg wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iTerm 2 is brilliant, I can't imagine using the default Terminal for anything, ever.

Enlighten us. I have read the feature list over the years and don't see anything that really stands out enough.

Panes and saved pane layouts are handy; I generally want to move all my terminals in a group and they're great for that.

It also has great tmux support built into the client.

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

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Post by zbowling » Sat, Feb 02, 2013, 2:51 AM UTC

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.

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

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Post by mitchty » Sat, Feb 02, 2013, 2:52 AM UTC

rsl7 wrote: post #34

pidg wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iTerm 2 is brilliant, I can't imagine using the default Terminal for anything, ever.

Enlighten us. I have read the feature list over the years and don't see anything that really stands out enough.

The only one that keeps me using it is mouse support. Terminal.app doesn't actually send any mouse events.

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

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Post by colomon » Sat, Feb 02, 2013, 2:55 AM UTC

rsl7 wrote: post #34

pidg wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iTerm 2 is brilliant, I can't imagine using the default Terminal for anything, ever.

Enlighten us. I have read the feature list over the years and don't see anything that really stands out enough.

You know, it's funny. I said the exact same thing you did, then a friend convinced me to try iTerm2 about a year ago. I still couldn't put my finger on what's better about it, exactly, but I've never considered going back after the first day. It just feels right.

It's probably easier to try than it is to find out why to try it...

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

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Post by peterkelly » Sat, Feb 02, 2013, 3:01 AM UTC

Can't reproduce it in Lion.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Feb 02, 2013, 3:02 AM UTC

niggler wrote: post #21

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

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Post by radioxid » Sat, Feb 02, 2013, 3:06 AM UTC

System-wide means it's Spell-Checker's fault. I have a MBA '11 11 with 10.8.2 and Safari won't crash. I have disabled Spell-Checker from the start (annoying it).