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by BobPalmer 5109 days ago
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>

<title>Test</title>

<script type="text/javascript"> window.onresize = function () { alert("gg"); }; </script>

</head>

<body>

&nbsp;

</body>

</html>

(edited to acknowledge that this is a JS bug). And for the downvotes, at least provide a reason and/or a discussion.
4 comments
khuey 5109 days ago
Uh yeah, it's really easy to find code that crashes browsers with open bug trackers. Just go search them.
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gcp 5109 days ago
Known for a year with no fix in sight :( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626963
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jonny_eh 5109 days ago
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.
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kyberias 5109 days ago
Are people really downvoting because you pointed out that other browsers have bugs too? Amazing!
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