LONDON: A user of popular online bulletin board site Reddit recently discovered a bug in Google’s Chrome browser that makes the browser incredibly easy to crash.
Simply entering a 16-character string into the browser address field and hitting enter causes the browser to become unresponsive, then crash spectacularly as it disappears from the running process list.
Entering the text ‘http://a/%%30%30’ into the address field causes the latest version of Chrome on Windows to crash, although there are versions of Chrome on other platforms (such as Android and Mac) that seem to be resilient to this vulnerability. The bug has also been found to affect certain other browsers based on the Webkit platform, such as the Blackberry browser.
