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How to crash your computer using IE and a line of HTML

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Lead Head:
i am using a very phucked up copy of windows XP SP2 and the my system did not hang or crash with that image, it simply loaded it in a few seconds and nothing happened.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---That's a good point.

Have you tried this in Linux?

Does Firefox crash?

My reasoning was that Firefox asks Windows GDI to draw a big fuck off bitmap and Windows crashes, when it should just terminate Firefox and display a message saying "This program has performed an illegal operation." Even if this bug isn't present in the Linux version it doesn't prove anything since X handles graphics in a totally differant way do Windows, and some of the code is differant in the Windows version.

Opera has still proved it's worth either way, you say they may've worked around this bug. Well if this is true it shows thier knowledge of Windows programming is superiour to Mozilla's.

Yes, a Windows thing since this affects IE too but this could just be a coninsidence, or you could be right. I don't know perhapps Firefox is expecting an error code to be generated so it can display a message or something but Windows just crashes, perhapps you could read the source or better still fix it.
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It doesn't crash for me.
If Windows GDI or whatever causes the system to crash when asked to draw a huge image, then Windows GDI needs to be fixed.
Or we could just check that the image isn't big enough before we ask Windows GDI to draw it, and if it isn't display an error message. Maybe the Opera guys decided "We needa work around this" and did something similar, and the Firefox guys said "Windows GDI is broke, not Firefox. Microsoft needs to fix Windows GDI, it's their bug". It doesn't necessarily mean that the Opera developers are more skilled than the Firefox developers when it comes to coding for Windows. Maybe they just decided differently.

Aloone_Jonez:
Oh yes the Opera developers have decided to do things differently which has resulted in a superiour piece of software - sorry I just couldn't help myself. :D

I think , however that this is a Windows bug rather than a Mozilla of IE bug, I don't know why it doesn't affect Opera, perhapps it's because it renders pictures differently, in Opera everything's fully zoomable and may be this has something to do with this.

piratePenguin:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289864

--- Quote ---Don't know if you know this or not but it seems that StretchBlt(...) is causing the BSOD. The graphic card is trying to stretch that image to 9999999, causing watchdog to think that the device driver is spinning in an infinite loop. Resulting in a bugcheck...
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There's patches in there to stop it from rendering the image. And suposadly, it's fixed (dunno exactly what that means) in trunk (should be fixed in the 1.5 betas).

solemnwarning:
konqueror owns :)

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