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Is this a big deal? It's amusing that it is such a simple chunk of HTML, but I was under the impression that it's not terribly difficult to DoS the average browser.

I accidentally discovered some very simple HTML that reliably crashes Outlook whenever you try to view or preview the message a while back. I reported it and I think they eventually fixed it.

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  > I reported it and I think they eventually fixed it.

If you follow through to the MSDN discussion, it is from 2009. So "eventually fixed it" could apply in this case, only because the timescale is unbounded, but waiting years for a fix seems unreasonable.

Bugfixes are subject to the Halting problem :)

How do you DoS chrome?

Facebook seems to have no problem crashing Chrome on my three machines.

I don't know. Maybe Google is so good it's impossible (or at least limited to one tab). But I suspect it's still possible if I'm allowed to use commonly installed plugins. I think I could make a Java applet that consistently crashes.

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