I don't see why it's such a big deal. Ya I mean it's kind of a dumb thing to cau...

BobPalmer · on June 21, 2012

I'd agree. On a side note, took me about ten seconds of googling to find HTML/Javascript that reliably crashes firefox (but does not crash IE8). I expect Chrome would have similar cases where there could be something that causes crashes (at least, there are bug reports asserting this).

(FYI here's some HTML/JS for the Firefox bug... Resizing the browser caused the issue to manifest in Win7 with FF 13.0.1:)

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd>;

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml>;

<head>

</head>

<body>

</body>

</html>

(edited to acknowledge that this is a JS bug). And for the downvotes, at least provide a reason and/or a discussion.

khuey · on June 21, 2012

Uh yeah, it's really easy to find code that crashes browsers with open bug trackers. Just go search them.

gcp · on June 21, 2012

Known for a year with no fix in sight :( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626963

jonny_eh · on June 21, 2012

While close, it's a bit different since JS is needed to crash the browser. The interesting thing about the IE bug is that no JS is required.

kyberias · on June 21, 2012

Are people really downvoting because you pointed out that other browsers have bugs too? Amazing!