[jlblatt]

Yes, that's why I feel like this is more significant than a simple crash at first glance- no one would purposefully craft a 256+ unchecked character URL, unless they are being malicious, in which case they absolutely will craft a 256+ unchecked character URL.

[userbinator]

URLs can definitely get rather long if they contain lots of query data, and the de-facto limit seems to be around 2KB[1]. It's still not acceptable for such URLs to crash the browser though.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/417142/what-is-the-maximu...