Aw, Snap! Found a silly bug in Google Chrome

Aw, Snap!
Aw, Snap!

Today while I was doing some weired experiemts on a site I found that in Chrome pasting a special ASCII character [ALT+0173] twice in any text box instantly crashes that browser instance as well as its parent tab(if you’ve opened that new page by clicking on a link on another page then its parent would be that link holder page.). 😛

The bug has been reported to Google and hopefully new version will be free from this bug.

By the way, if you’ve found a bug in Google Chrome and want to report it to Google simply follow the instructions here: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95760

Shobhit Kumar Prabhakar

Shobhit Kumar Prabhakar

Shobhit Kumar Prabhakar, known online as GeekLord, is a software developer and the founder of Cyber Mitra Solutions in Lucknow, India. He has worked on websites, applications, and data systems since 2005, with experience spanning more than 800 web projects and over 600 survey instruments. His work includes custom WordPress themes and plugins, web applications, e-commerce, and multilingual field surveys built with ODK, SurveyCTO, KoboToolbox, and XLSForm. Survey projects involve skip logic, repeat groups, randomisation, validation, multimedia, and offline data collection. He also works on data cleaning, analytics, reporting, APIs, Linux and cloud deployments, and AI tools and automation using PHP, Python, and JavaScript. He holds a B.Tech in Information Technology from Uttar Pradesh Technical University and a diploma in Electrical Engineering from Hewett Polytechnic, Lucknow. On GeekLord.com, he shares practical guides, code, troubleshooting notes, and experiments in programming, web development, AI, and useful software, alongside photography and personal writing. His fuller background and project examples are on the About Shobhit page and shobhit.net.

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