Post by: JanusChrist on 10 October 2005, 15:36
http://ha.ckers.org/imagecrash.html
When I tried it with IE 6 on Windows XP, it paused for few seconds and then the computer restarted. No BSOD, no Error Report, just restarted as though someone hit the reset button. Firefox and Opera both render the link with no problems.
I discovered this little trick at:
http://poptech.blogspot.com/2005/08/crash-your-pc-using-html-code.html
Post by: piratePenguin on 10 October 2005, 19:55
Does it still crash in a fully-patched Windows XP system?
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 10 October 2005, 20:07
If you don't like IE or Firefox then you can always try Opera (http://www.opera.com), it's free now (as in bear) - it's no longer adware!
Personally I think IE blows goats, Firefox is alright (I suppose it's excellent compared to IE), and Opera is brilliant!
Post by: Jack2000 on 10 October 2005, 20:15
Post by: piratePenguin on 10 October 2005, 20:33
Quote from: Aloone_Jonez
Firefox is alrightChange of heart? (http://www.microsuck.com/forums/showpost.php?p=102697&postcount=37)[/offtopic]
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 10 October 2005, 20:50
Post by: piratePenguin on 10 October 2005, 20:57
Quote from: Aloone_Jonez
Firefox is shit when you compare it to OperaThat's arguable (/me thinks he knows what happens next).
Quote from: Aloone_Jonez
but IE is shit compared to IE.No comment :p
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 10 October 2005, 21:52
Quote from: piratePenguin
That's arguable (/me thinks he knows what happens next).
Well we've already discused this - there's realy nothing more to say.
Post by: HeroicRaptor on 12 October 2005, 05:01
Post by: Kintaro on 12 October 2005, 06:43
Quote from: Aloone_Jonez
Hi Janus, long time no see. :)
If you don't like IE or Firefox then you can always try Opera (http://www.opera.com), it's free now (as in bear) - it's no longer adware!
Personally I think IE blows goats, Firefox is alright (I suppose it's excellent compared to IE), and Opera is brilliant!
Since Opera is so brilliant, you should have no problems at all posting a comment on piratebay.org :rolleyes:.
Post by: JanusChrist on 12 October 2005, 09:18
Quote from: HeroicRaptor
janus, I E> your avvy.
Thanks. Check out http://toastytech.com/spboot/index.html
Post by: JanusChrist on 12 October 2005, 09:31
Quote from: piratePenguin
We know (http://www.microsuck.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9283&highlight=crash) ;)
Does it still crash in a fully-patched Windows XP system?
Just tried it with XP Home SP2 with all updates. After about 10 seconds I get a BSOD and have to reboot.
Post by: some bum with red shoes on 12 October 2005, 16:42
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Post by: some bum with red shoes on 12 October 2005, 16:49
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 12 October 2005, 19:21
Post by: Jack2000 on 13 October 2005, 15:56
ps: I don't like Opera becouse it is too ... hm how do you say this ...
Overdid(overdo??)...
...an overkill :D...
...too much bling ...
Post by: Kintaro on 13 October 2005, 16:33
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 13 October 2005, 16:52
Post by: Annorax on 13 October 2005, 17:42
Quote from: kintaro
I see nobody ever has the balls to respond to my comments about Opera's severe lack of features regarding rendering that inhibit its ability to use certain important features on many popular sites.
What important features? I haven't noticed anything missing anywhere.
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 13 October 2005, 19:29
Post by: piratePenguin on 13 October 2005, 22:08
Quote from: Aloone_Jonez
This is both a Mozilla and Windows bug, mainly the latter since however buggey a browser (or any other application) is it should not crash the whole OS.Mozilla bug? How do you know (note well: know) that?
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 13 October 2005, 23:58
Post by: piratePenguin on 14 October 2005, 18:35
Quote from: Aloone_Jonez
Because this issue doesn't affect Opera, also if Windows wasn't affected by this bug then Mozilla would just crash instead of bringing down the whole system.Does it still affect IE?
The Opera guys could be using some workaround.
How come this bug doesn't appear in the GNU/Linux releases of Mozilla? Is the GNU/Linux-specific code OK and some Windows-specific code broken?
Post by: MarathoN on 15 October 2005, 01:50
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 15 October 2005, 02:52
Quote from: piratePenguin
Does it still affect IE?
The Opera guys could be using some workaround.
How come this bug doesn't appear in the GNU/Linux releases of Mozilla? Is the GNU/Linux-specific code OK and some Windows-specific code broken?
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.
Post by: Lead Head on 15 October 2005, 03:05
Post by: piratePenguin on 15 October 2005, 18:51
Quote from: Aloone_Jonez
That's a good point.It doesn't crash for me.
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.
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.
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 15 October 2005, 23:38
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.
Post by: piratePenguin on 16 October 2005, 00:11
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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...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).
Post by: solemnwarning on 23 October 2005, 00:27
Post by: MarathoN on 23 October 2005, 03:06
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konqueror owns :)
All I have to say is....
Disgust. :thumbdwn:
Post by: WMD on 23 October 2005, 04:49
Post by: themacuser on 23 October 2005, 05:30
Oh, there's a new version... one minute, let me just get it...
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 3 November 2005, 00:25
Post by: worker201 on 3 November 2005, 04:13
Firefox 1.0.7 - no crash
Deer Park 1.6a (nightly build from Oct 31)- no crash
SeaMonkey 1.1a (nightly build from Oct 31) - no crash
I guess Linux pretty much fucking rocks.
Post by: cymon on 3 November 2005, 04:16
Safari 2.0- No problems, just a bigass blank page. Tab closes fine.
Firefox 1.0.7 - No issues at all.
I guess *NIX systems pretty much rock.
Post by: themacuser on 3 November 2005, 12:54
Windows reboots: 6
:D
However, number of times IE whores have tried to go to said link on MY laptop to try and crash it: 7
Number of Mac OS or Safari crashes: 0
Post by: Dark_Me on 3 November 2005, 14:54
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 4 November 2005, 03:55
Quote from: Dark_Me
Interesting. I just crashed Windows by going to the link in H_TeXMeX_H's sig in a new window. It was brown. Sorta. I've been there before and it never crashed. But this time, BAM!, it was like someone hit the reset swich. It was with Firefox.
Do you feel my power now ? MUHAHAHAHAHA :eek: :D
Post by: Dark_Me on 4 November 2005, 06:06
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 4 November 2005, 21:50
Quote from: Dark_Me
It erased all my bookmarks. I'll get you for this. Death to H_TeXMeX_H!
Cool, that was unexpected, why would it erase your bookmarks ? You should have saved them anyway, I save em every month or so, upload em to my gmail drafts folder just in case they are erased accidentally. If you still hold it against me, bring it on ... I can take anything you throw at me :mad: :eek: :D
I was also thinking of putting this in my e-mail signatures to piss people off ... MUAHHAHAHAH !!! I'm so evil :D but Bill Gates is far more evil