Crash Google Chrome in an instant with this one weird link
by Samuel Gibbs from Technology | The Guardian on (#N6DE)
Bug in browser causes it to crash if mousing over, clicking on or pasting a short 16-character string into the address bar
A bug in Google's Chrome browser causes it to crash when clicking on or mousing over a 16-character text string placed on a web page.
Clicking on or mousing over the phrase "http://a/%%30%30" (without the quote marks) when it is a link, or entering the string into the address bar and pressing Enter, causes either the current Chrome tab to crash or the whole browser, taking any work currently in progress with it.
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