Simple Bug Crashes All of the Google Chrome Browser
September 2008 by admin
It’s funny how some times the simplest bugs slip through the testing process.
As a software developer, you can test an application for months, finding all sorts of ugly buglies only to have a newbie tester step up and crash the application with a few simple keystrokes. That’s the nature of the beast.
The Sarathc blog points out you can crash Chrome simply by typing :% in the Chrome omnibar.
This bug shows the limits of the isolation between tabs. The whole Chrome application crashed taking down all the tabs I had open, even one I pulled out of the original window to stand alone in its own window.
Enjoy (and save your work before you type those two characters into your Chrome address bar!)
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