Single line of HTML crashes IE 6
Web Development August 6th, 2007 - 141,991 viewsA Japanese blogger who goes by the name Hamachiya2 has discovered a single line of HTML and CSS that crashes IE 6. The line is:
<style>*{position:relative}</style><table><input></table>
If you’re brave, you can click here to try it out. The code is rendered correctly in Firefox, Safari and Opera (didn’t get a chance to try any other browsers, but presumably they work too). But in IE 6 it raises a fatal error in mshtml.dll.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Basically crashed my Windows machine. Nice.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Wow, that’s really weird. I wonder why IE chokes on that code?
August 6th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
renders fine in IE7
August 6th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
renders fine but can not input anything in IE 7
August 6th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Doesn’t render at all in Opera 9.22..
August 6th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
crashes Maxthon 2.0, then crashes bug report if you paste code in description
does not crash K-Meleon 1.1
does not crash Opera 9
August 6th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Not that I care enough to try it, but the tag isn’t closed. Does IE6 still crash if you use
*{position:relative}
or
*{position:relative}
It looks like they found a bug in IE that makes it crash on malformed HTML, congrats, report it to MS and it’ll most likely get fixed.
August 6th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Digged because internet explorer SUCKS!
August 6th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Laged out my IE tab on fire fox that is so epic I will add that to all my websites now
August 6th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Renders correctly in Konqueror 3.5 on Kubuntu 6.10, but something weird … the mouse pointer doesn’t change an an I-beam when moved over the text field. It _does_ change over the text fields on this page, for example…
August 6th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Doesn’t render right but doesn’t crash IE mobile. (then again what does render right in IE mobile.
August 6th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Any code can be “One-line” if you format it poorly. This should hardly be considered “one-line” any coder would make this at least 2 lines. But if it gets you more page views…one-line FTW
August 6th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
This is old news. There was a similar finding using something like posted on Slashdot over three years ago.
August 6th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
OS X & Firefox, no problem
August 6th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
I just saw a rectangle on the top left of the screen in Maxthon 2 - is this what it is supposed to be doing?
August 6th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Did not crash IE 7 on Vista
August 6th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
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August 6th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
@satosphere: more or less, yea. It’s a text input element inside of a table.
August 6th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Now imagine you send that code as an html email to someone with IE6? Same rendering engine is used in many email clients, outlook/outlook express…
Problem is, they won’t be able to open their mail client to delete the email that keeps crashing their mail client ;)
August 6th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Crashed IE6 in VMware.
Rendered fine in the latest Opera Beta.
August 6th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Whoever said it doesn’t render in Opera 9.2.2 is a dumbass. It does so. OPERA FTW
August 6th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Renders and inputs in Konqueror 3.5.6 (Kubuntu 7.04), but also no I-beam on hover.
August 6th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
what did you expect IE sucks.
August 6th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
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August 6th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Independent test conducted with sample code.
Test platform: Dell Inspiron 600m (Intel wireless option) running Ubuntu 7.04 Linux.
Browsers rendering effectively: Firefox, Opera, Konqueror, Netscape 9 Beta, Links, Lynx, and W3M.
Browsers failing to render: Dillo and Amaya. (Amaya declares input element outside of form, would refuse to save element if page edited and saved without nesting in form element.)
Browser crashing: Internet Explorer 6 via IEs4Linux: Unhandled page fault on read access.
Summary: This technique appears to be a highly effective way to discriminate against Internet Explorer exclusively. Does it crash Windows Explorer as well?
August 6th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
You people must be retarded to think this means anything. All software has bugs and can crash. Period. You found one weird thing that actually really means nothing.
August 6th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
Who still uses IE6?
August 6th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
it worked, crashed IE 6 flawlessly. That’s quite amazing, it has to do with the rendering in quirks mode.
August 6th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
Crashs in IE7 as well if you open the page then maximize it, it does not crash if you just open the page and let it sit normally
August 6th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Indeed, IE7 does not crash until the window is maximized.
August 6th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
“The code is rendered correctly” - Come on, how can it be rendered correctly, if it is a piece of incorrectly written code? Otherwise, a funny find.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Confirmed: Crashes IE7 on a fresh install of Windows Vista Premium and with Windows Vista Premium with all patches applied if you open the link then attempt to resize the window at all. This does not seem to crash windows explorer or other concurrent explorer/iexplore processes however. Also: Dugg for proving once again that Microsoft engineers are the real pussies.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:02 am
crashes my safari
August 7th, 2007 at 12:07 am
@Web: Sorry, when I said “rendered correctly” I meant “rendered as expected.” Or “renders something table/input like, and doesn’t crash the browser.” ;)
August 7th, 2007 at 12:12 am
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August 7th, 2007 at 12:15 am
@mike: Go ahead and take my terminology, then. “It rendered effectively.” Although “rendered as expected” works as well. :)
@sloveno: It’d be awful depressing if it does indeed crash Safari as well. But is that Safari 2 on Mac OS or the Safari beta on Windows? Also, about Macs, does it crash iCab as well? (I can’t afford a Mac.)
August 7th, 2007 at 12:23 am
FF for mac works fine, as does Safari (a bane of web programmers)
August 7th, 2007 at 12:26 am
but how can html and css do this lol.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:28 am
“This is old news. There was a similar finding using something like posted on Slashdot over three years ago.”
Wow, and it still crashes IE6. Microsoft should have patched this long ago.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:30 am
@sloveno: Oh please, this doesn’t make Safari crash on OS X. Far from it…looks like it’s rendering “as expected”.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:32 am
Safari 3.0.3 on Windows XP doesn’t crash with this. Brings up a window with a text field, you can enter text, hit return, nothing happens. You can go back to previous page just fine.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:33 am
doesnt crash safari 3 beta on a mac mini g4 with all the updates.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:35 am
This works fine in Camino 1.5. That’s a neat trick!
August 7th, 2007 at 12:36 am
works fine on safari 3 beta(3.0.2) on a mac mini g4 with all the updates(10.4.10)
August 7th, 2007 at 12:37 am
my bad safari 3.0.3
August 7th, 2007 at 12:58 am
@shamir: It appears to be IE mishandling the unexpected input element, since the standard doesn’t allow it to directly be a child of the table element. It can be a descendant, and it often is, but not a child.
The correct behavior, if I understand the HTML standards right, is to ignore the unexpected input element, but a mode of graceful failure (which most browsers seem to do in quirks mode) is to render it as a default input form field.
August 7th, 2007 at 1:00 am
I can’t believe they let this pass over at Microsoft HQ. Those people have got to be totally clueless on how to develop a browser which actually works. IE does really suck, huh? The only reason why people still them is because it’s bundled with their OS…how I wish Netscape won the browser wars.
August 7th, 2007 at 1:17 am
“There was a similar finding using something like posted on Slashdot over three years ago.”
Is this?
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/1845241
I think this is different.
August 7th, 2007 at 1:23 am
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August 7th, 2007 at 1:25 am
This bug does not affect Internet Explorer 7, but nothing can be inputed into the text box.
August 7th, 2007 at 1:26 am
My IE crashes at least once a day :(. These days even Firfox started crashing often.
http://mgopinath.blogspot.com
August 7th, 2007 at 1:34 am
The purpose of Internet Explorer is to go to http://www.mozilla.com and download Firefox.
August 7th, 2007 at 1:37 am
Firefox FTW
August 7th, 2007 at 1:44 am
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August 7th, 2007 at 1:55 am
I urge everyone to include this at the top of their pages, or a link, if you are not using firefox, click here.
boom. downloads firefox. internet devs jobs get easier.
August 7th, 2007 at 2:10 am
Unfortuately, I aren’t too brave to try that! But I would definitely expect Microsoft to release that patch! Perhaps, it is because Microsoft is pushing its users towards IE 7, thus IE 6 is almost abandoned.
August 7th, 2007 at 2:11 am
Are we really still fighting over IE versus FireFox? They are both here to stay. They are both pieces of software and software sucks because it is one of the most difficult undertakings we do - go read Mythical Man-Month. Please get over these M$ versus everybody else wars and go write some helpful software.
August 7th, 2007 at 2:26 am
Distruggere Internet Explorer 6/7 con una riga di codice…
Hamachiya2 ha scoperto che, scrivendo la seguente riga HTML, Internet Explorer 6/7 alla visualizzazione della pagina darà un bel errorino:
Visualizza il codice HTML
<style>*{position:relative}</style><table><input></tab…
August 7th, 2007 at 2:37 am
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August 7th, 2007 at 2:52 am
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August 7th, 2007 at 2:52 am
Strange. It crashes IE7 (64-bit Vista) only if the width is resized beyond 900 pixels (roughly). Resizing height has no effect.
Btw, I use Firefox too (had to go out of my way to open IE7 for that) but come on… if you’re saying FF does not have similar bugs, you’re living in denial. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=Firefox&content=crash.
The only browser I’ve used that never crashed (for me) was Linx. :O
August 7th, 2007 at 2:55 am
do you know ie7 is out?
August 7th, 2007 at 3:07 am
If you’re using IE Tab extension for firefox, firefox crashes. But Isuppose that’s to be expected…
August 7th, 2007 at 3:26 am
What shall we do tonight? The same thing we do every night. Take over the digg world.
August 7th, 2007 at 3:31 am
Thats going on my myspace profile!
August 7th, 2007 at 3:33 am
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August 7th, 2007 at 3:33 am
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August 7th, 2007 at 3:45 am
It’s offensive that free product that originally was released almost 6 years ago has bugs in it. While a large share of users on the web still resort to using IE 6, if they are unwilling or unable to use IE 7 or Firefox they shouldn’t be surprised when they surf malcious websites intent on crashing their browser. Can you sense my sarcasm?
August 7th, 2007 at 3:46 am
i guess it got the chokesondick syndrome
August 7th, 2007 at 4:42 am
I can crash your brain with 169 bytes of HTML !
http://djcassis.g-host.be/epilepsy.html
works in any browser with CSS enabled :)
August 7th, 2007 at 4:45 am
Okay, suppose that works… ( I cannot test it since I have IE7 which I do not use) what then? Anything useful?
And I do not need to crash IE7 with any code. It has a life of its own. It crashes all in itself.
August 7th, 2007 at 4:50 am
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August 7th, 2007 at 4:50 am
Excellent. Now the time has come to churn out all IE6-users by conditional comments + that line. That’ll raise some pulses and perhaps get people to at least upgrade, or switch to another browser.
August 7th, 2007 at 5:00 am
It is like Asimov’s squid…
August 7th, 2007 at 5:16 am
I remember and old office bug “Quarter Draw and Hang” LOL
In a new Word document I would type “1/4″ (quarter) followed by a space, it would autocomplete to ¼ (draw); then I would attempt to repeat (Ctrl+Y) - the whole Word would immediately exit; no asking to save, no error to send to M$oft and no passing go to collect $200.
However, since Word for Office 97; this has been fixed.
August 7th, 2007 at 5:20 am
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August 7th, 2007 at 5:43 am
Man I freaking hate IE. Everyone should put this on their site.
August 7th, 2007 at 5:45 am
To those who have posted along the lines of ‘Who still uses IE6?’ - the answer: well, a shockingly large number of non-IT orientated corporate entities and households where people probably aren’t even aware you can download upgrades (i.e. quite a few).
August 7th, 2007 at 5:46 am
For a webdesigner this could be a feature, not a bug.
used with a warning (before loading the page containing the code) it can help people who don’t upgrade their browser to make the switch :D
August 7th, 2007 at 5:59 am
Sweet. Now I can keep people from using IE 6 and using my site!
August 7th, 2007 at 6:29 am
It does funny things with my IE7 on Vista. Looks like it throws IE to loop or something, starts consuming lots of CPU time, breaks window if maximizing and crashes on closing. Well, my Vista is not in a good shape (Incredible piece of crap) and it crashes quite often even on normal pages :-D
August 7th, 2007 at 6:30 am
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August 7th, 2007 at 6:33 am
i’m using firefox, it worked well
but when i tested in in ie6… ERROR!
August 7th, 2007 at 6:35 am
Nothing happends with this code in Internet Explorer. Try to visit this webpage with Firefox 0.1 alpha : http://www.digg.com
August 7th, 2007 at 6:46 am
This is very frustrating and is congruent with all other Microsoft projects. We’re in the process of rebuilding our website and have been pouring over our server stats. 89% of our users are acessing the University site in IE6.
I tested this on every browser I have for Fedora Core 7 and none of them crashed.
Windows and IE are not for us folk, it’s overly simplified and bloated for those folks who convince themselves that they’re not “computer people.”
Can’t wait to see that 89% take a nose dive!
August 7th, 2007 at 6:52 am
Does not crash my IE7. No matter what I do. minimize, maximize, move it around, switch tabs, etc. Does nothing.
August 7th, 2007 at 6:57 am
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August 7th, 2007 at 6:59 am
Mark said, “It looks like they found a bug in IE that makes it crash on malformed HTML, congrats, report it to MS and it’ll most likely get fixed.”
Hahahahahah! Just like they fixed all the other reported bugs in IE 6?
August 7th, 2007 at 7:12 am
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August 7th, 2007 at 7:12 am
But will it blend?
August 7th, 2007 at 7:28 am
Microsoft….Yugo. Different products, same quality.
August 7th, 2007 at 7:33 am
You’re reading a comment
August 7th, 2007 at 7:34 am
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August 7th, 2007 at 7:36 am
so what? so a rubbish piece of code is found to crash IE 6. woopy do! You want to make a website that crashes IE 6 and stops a user from viewing your site, go ahead, I opt to make my site as accessible as possible to a user regardless of browser type.
Slating software because you don’t like it is hardly the approach to go down when developing a website.
IE 6 is rubbish, OpenSource OpenSource, Microsoft Microsoft. God I’m getting bored of this debate.
Alot of users use IE 6, moaning about it isn’t going to achieve i great deal.
August 7th, 2007 at 7:39 am
楼主厉害！
August 7th, 2007 at 7:43 am
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August 7th, 2007 at 7:48 am
So what? Will it end Microsoft?
August 7th, 2007 at 7:50 am
you are quite right it happened to me on the computer which uses IE6. Works fine on IE7
August 7th, 2007 at 7:59 am
Why are people repeating previous comments, please read the comments before you post the same thing over and over again, you retards.
August 7th, 2007 at 8:02 am
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August 7th, 2007 at 8:24 am
Who gives a sh*t??? So it crashes… What now?
August 7th, 2007 at 8:43 am
Wow, great find!
August 7th, 2007 at 8:52 am
Cool! Another point for FF, Opera, Safari and the other better browsers. Why people don’t wake up and switch to a real browser?!?
August 7th, 2007 at 8:57 am
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August 7th, 2007 at 9:13 am
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August 7th, 2007 at 9:36 am
This is sooooo becoming my default template for all IE6 users. Thanks!
August 7th, 2007 at 9:47 am
How terribly amusing.
August 7th, 2007 at 10:01 am
IE 7 also crashes if the window is already maximized when the URL is navigated to.
August 7th, 2007 at 10:13 am
Causing IE6 to crash is no big deal.
But causing Firefox to stop leaking memory like a freaking sieve — now, that’s a challenge!
August 7th, 2007 at 10:21 am
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August 7th, 2007 at 10:35 am
IE6 is AWFUL
August 7th, 2007 at 10:36 am
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August 7th, 2007 at 10:45 am
IE6 FOR MAC DOES NOT CRASH WITH THE CODE. It means, Windows should take the blame.
August 7th, 2007 at 10:57 am
Firefox 2.0.0.6 crashed on Linux Ubuntu
August 7th, 2007 at 11:35 am
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August 7th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
If you check out the source using the IE Web Developer Toolbar, you’ll notice that a nameless element is being created in the table element, before the tbody element.
table>*{position:relative} should do the same thing as the star selector approach.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Didn’t crash on Win2000 or WinXp or on Vista.
Is it another lazy, hazy, crazy summerday propaganda?
August 7th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
it seems to be fixed in IE7
August 7th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
@amanyus: Microsoft made IE6 for Mac OS?? Got a copy of the installer image? I thought Microsoft ceased all distribution and support for IE on Mac OS with IE 5.5 being the last version.
@Those who think this bug will convince IE users to switch:
On my site, I take in the User-Agent string, grep for MSIE, grep out Opera, and serve IE users an ugly CSS theme by default. It’s a theme I refuse to maintain largely for fear of keeping standards compliance while breaking accessibility, and that server-side detection is the limit of what I do to accommodate IE-using visitors. The important thing is that I keep my content as accessible as reasonably possible. I offer IE users access to my prettier CSS themes (which I admit aren’t the best in the world), but I warn them that this could make my site inaccessible.
Something like this would be useful against those who think IE is the best thing since sliced bread, but not against those who use IE with no alternative (corporate-it@dumbcompany.com) or those who aren’t aware alternatives exist. In the latter cases, something like this would be self-defeating.
Better to take an extra step to keep your content accessible than to take an extra step to expressly deny access to your content. Lest you fall into the same trap IE-only sites are in.
August 7th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
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August 7th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Firefox 3 can be frozen by an object element with a present but empty data attribute.
[object data=”"]
or even just
[object data
Where the [] are angle brackets.
August 7th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
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August 7th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
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August 7th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Works fine on PSP’s browser.
August 8th, 2007 at 2:02 am
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August 8th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
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August 8th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
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August 8th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
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August 10th, 2007 at 4:35 am
Trying to do a little test here and see if it works. I’m using IE7 and Firefox (where I’m currently typing)
and… click!
IE7: is okay but you can’t input anything
IE7 window when maximized: Woooohooo!!! Kabooom! It did crash! I’m definitely going to use this!
August 10th, 2007 at 5:32 am
Firefox FTW
August 10th, 2007 at 6:18 am
renders correct in konqueror..
August 10th, 2007 at 8:02 am
If link is opened in IE 7 window when it is not maximized and the you try to maximize it, IE 7 crashes too! ;)
August 10th, 2007 at 9:29 am
It does work… And even in IE 7.0, maybe if someone add an javascript to maximize the window on IE 7.0, it would work even better on it, crashing the browser. Maibe I place this on my own website, to prove that IE is an bad browser.
August 10th, 2007 at 10:57 am
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August 12th, 2007 at 5:48 am
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August 12th, 2007 at 5:50 am
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August 13th, 2007 at 5:15 am
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August 13th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
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August 16th, 2007 at 2:30 am
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August 16th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Why do I get this from my Firewall/Spyware filter
The content you visit from immike.net/scripts/ie_crash.html is infected by virus:Trojan/HTML.Crashie.DEC4
False positive???
August 16th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
@Jay - not sure, what firewall are you using? Maybe it was updated to block/filter this particular bug. I would understand if firewall vendors considered this code “malicious,” since it’s unlikely to show up legitimately on any website (at least not by itself).
August 16th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
@Mike - Thnx, good to know
August 16th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
nice
add some more
August 19th, 2007 at 5:06 am
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August 20th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
it doesn’t crash anything on a real browser like konqueror
ie crash because it sucks
August 22nd, 2007 at 6:38 pm
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August 24th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Great find!
August 25th, 2007 at 3:16 am
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August 28th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
It looks like most of the readers aren’t that smart …
“But in IE 6 it raises a fatal error in mshtml.dll”
Why are you even trying Opera, Firefox, Konqueror …
August 29th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
Don’t get me wrong, I hate IE as much as the next guy, but…
I just crashed SAFARI by changin one of my CSS rules to “display2:none”…
way to go apple. I also have a page with a CSS/javascript menu that works great in all other browsers, but has a fatal flaw in safari. I think that too is CSS realted because if I start with a sub menu item selected (via JS) I can navigate fine until I try to veiw the top most level of the nav. Then it dies. When no item is selected to start, I can see the top nav, but sub items don’t appear…
August 30th, 2007 at 2:05 am
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August 31st, 2007 at 12:02 am
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August 31st, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Nice one that link (”click here to try it out”).
Avast reports virus/worm of type VBS:Malware[Gen].
I firmly assume your post was not just an attempt at spreading this kind of stuff(?)
August 31st, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Heh. I run IEs4Linux in Ubuntu, and when you click on that link, it in linux speak kills itself. Nice :)
September 1st, 2007 at 8:33 pm
Frode: since this post a number of antivirus products have updated their virus signature files to filter this HTML. Feel free to grab the HTML with wget, or whatever, if you’re worried.
September 1st, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Avast don’t like your script lol
September 4th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Works fine in opera 9.23, links, links2, konqueror, firefox, lynx (which reports it to be broken, and then renders it nicely), epiphany, and wget ;)
September 4th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
People have thumbed up the actual page with the piece of code on stumbleupon :) (btw. It can crash ie7 too)
September 5th, 2007 at 7:46 am
Does indeed report as a vb-script on avast
September 6th, 2007 at 10:07 am
Maxthon doesn’t crash, and shows the correct things. KIS7 shows a trojan alert.
September 7th, 2007 at 11:25 am
[…] a great and fantastic feat, given how insanely complex, large, and bloated most are. However, crashing a browser in just a single line of HTML and CSS code is pretty impressive. A Japanese blogger who goes by the name Hamachiya2 has discovered a single […]
September 9th, 2007 at 3:13 am
avast tells me it is a virus code script
filename: http://immike.net/scripts/ie_crash.html
malware name: VBS:Malware [Gen]
malware type: Virus/Worm
September 14th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Avast said it’s VBS:Malware [Gen] and closed connection. :D
September 18th, 2007 at 8:53 am
Works fine with Netscape 9
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:00 pm
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September 24th, 2007 at 6:31 am
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September 30th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
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October 22nd, 2007 at 3:58 am
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October 22nd, 2007 at 5:02 am
Sweet. Now I can keep people from using IE 6 and using my site!
November 8th, 2007 at 4:57 am
My Antivirus tells me that the link up there is a virus. Niiiiiice.
November 8th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Nice, this is why I finally got sick of IE6 and decided to try and be a bit more forceful with end users by using the End 6! site that I set up. Nothing amazing, just an effort to get rid of this damnable browser that nearly half of internet users still use!
- Hudin
November 15th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
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November 16th, 2007 at 8:22 am
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November 21st, 2007 at 10:50 am
does anyone have a fucking anti-virus running? you POS:
“Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0
The requested URL http://immike.net/scripts/ie_crash.html is infected with Trojan.HTML.Crashie.e virus”
I put the code in dreamweaver and tried it out, it’s the * in the code that causes it to crash, take it out and it works fine.. funny though, when the * was still there, IE7 crashed, but didn’t tell me I had a virus, so I uploaded it to my server and tried again, guess you’re just a fucking piece of shit mike.
this is why I have to put security oh high, otherwise fucking piece of shit douchebags like you could install shit on my pc….
don’t be the fat little nutsack your parents said you would be, douchebag… live up to something worth life.
thanks
November 22nd, 2007 at 12:28 am
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November 23rd, 2007 at 11:52 am
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December 12th, 2007 at 1:37 am
@jon… seriously? Did you try downloading the file and looking at it (e.g., with wget, or something along those lines) before you went off on a rant about something you obviously know nothing about?
It’s showing up as a virus because antivirus programs block malicious code… and it’s malicious code (duh). The virus vendors started picking this up a few days after I made this post. Symantec even linked to my blog from the threat description on their site. This is seriously the last time I’m going to say this… wish people would read the damn comments before they go off like that.
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Right… Well see when I clicked that in FIREFOX 2… avast! pops up saying that it detects a virus on that link and to abort connection to the website to prevent damage…
So yea… nice try jack.
January 13th, 2008 at 3:08 am
Crashing IE6 for me but Opera just shows a small input box at the top left(I can even type in it)
January 30th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Hi!
Not single line, but work in IE 7 :)
function getX( oElement )
{
var iReturnValue = 0;
while( oElement != null ) {
iReturnValue += oElement.offsetLeft;
oElement = oElement.offsetParent;
}
return iReturnValue;
}
February 1st, 2008 at 6:09 am
doesn’t work on my IE7 but that’s why i hated microsoft
February 1st, 2008 at 6:15 am
With Firefox, no problem
February 1st, 2008 at 7:37 am
i looked for this article couple of months
thanks a lot
February 8th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
LOL LOVE MICROSOFT!!!!!!!!!!!
i had 4 lines crashes ie6 but other browsers render fine. they told me they solved this issue only in ie7 !!
March 6th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
This is *actually* fixed in the new IE8 beta :)
March 25th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Firefox (Updated)
- 25/03/2008 (6:50 pm)
I did not have any trouble rendering this code on firefox as it showed an input text box .