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CRASH IE6 with one line of code.

immike.net — As the title says, a single line of code can crash IE6.

Who dugg this? Made popular Aug 7, 2007

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  • roastedbagel, on 10/10/2007, -16/+619I don't need a line of code to crash IE6...

    I'll just switch over to it and use it for a few minutes.
  • wiifm69, on 10/10/2007, -19/+293All websites should have this at the top of the page. ***** you ie
  • BrandonMills, on 10/10/2007, -7/+209Awesome :) Now I can force users to NOT use IE on my website ;)
  • plucas, on 10/10/2007, -6/+170I thought this is what always happens when you try to use CSS with IE?
  • NeoRebellion, on 10/10/2007, -9/+132Turns out it wasn't that particular line of code. IE 6 just crashes every 5 seconds regardless of what code it reads.
  • kylesellers, on 10/10/2007, -12/+133Thats why there is Firefox......
  • crackah, on 10/10/2007, -56/+168Thats why there is ie7......
  • mishsquish, on 10/10/2007, -6/+109Breaking news: "Crash IE7 with two lines of code."
  • kylesellers, on 10/10/2007, -14/+97I don't ever run IE6, but I'm sure the icon is sitting there in my start menu crashing itself over and over again just for the hell of it.
  • kylesellers, on 10/10/2007, -8/+90That'll really boost your traffic...
  • MavRevMatt, on 10/10/2007, -6/+68You need code?
  • xenuxenuts, on 10/10/2007, -1/+61Man, you missed out. On the 4th time, dollar bills fly out your monitor.
  • Onibus, on 10/10/2007, -4/+54Divide by zero.
  • shiftt, on 10/10/2007, -2/+37Or just go here: http://www.crashie.com
  • benitojuarez, on 10/10/2007, -7/+40Its kind of odd in IE7. The first time, IE closed by itself after about 5 seconds like I hit the X. The second time, IE closed with an error after about 20 seconds, the 3rd time I waited 30 seconds, went to the batthrom, came back and nothing had happened.
  • shiftt, on 10/10/2007, -1/+31You'd be surprised.
  • shiftt, on 10/10/2007, -3/+33Or just go here: http://www.crashie.com/
  • sheepster, on 11/13/2007, -1/+30for those of you who missed it...and are to lazy/tired to wait for coral to load:

    < style>*{position:relative}< /style>< table>< input>< /table> - minus the spaces of course.


    here is the link to test it: http://immike.net.nyud.net:8080/scripts/ie_crash.html
  • Reziarfg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+27As a computer tech in the industry...You'd be VERY surprised. I would say 9/10 at least have no noticeable links for anything but IE 6 on their desktop/startmenu/quick launcher.
  • rhylan, on 11/13/2007, -2/+26How many times do i have to tell people? Its a feature!
  • andyduncan, on 10/10/2007, -4/+28Uninstall your dorky firefox extensions and try again. A virgin install of Firefox is actually very very stable.
  • mmalone, on 10/10/2007, -12/+33Apparently it's causing problems for some people in IE7, too.
  • heyitsgarrett, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21Looks like he took a bit of a breath towards the end there to regroup.
  • sexybobo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22This code is at least a year old.
  • cog77, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20So if 1000 IE6 browsers click on "a href='http://immike.net/blog/2007/08/06/single-line-of-html-crashes-ie-6/'", who wins?
  • andyduncan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19We run a medium sized public-facing site with a broad demographic. Our current metrics show 51% IE6 and 48% IE7 with a couple 5.5 and 5.0 stragglers. IE 7 has been creeping up but it hasn't, for us, taken over IE 6 yet. Unfortunately IE6 will be with us for at least another year or three.

    Although maybe if I put this code into our site that will solve our IE6 infestation...
  • greatking, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19I recall a bsod with one line of code

    http://digg.com/programming/Internet_Explorer_Exploit
  • eTronicGaming, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19That doesn't work.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+22IE 7 renders it fine, for me.
  • remccain, on 10/10/2007, -6/+23You're high on needle drugs.
  • ThankTheCheese, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16so...the workaround is to go the bathroom?
  • damnitdaniel, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17Seriously, how hard is it to spell check a post?!
    Firefox even underlines misspelled words!
  • DrShotgun, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17Crash any site with one story on digg.
  • p0ltergeist, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15It might be hard to believe, but according to Microsoft employees, Microsoft has been known to fix bugs this way.
  • ContinuumXLS, on 11/13/2007, -5/+20Ruining someones life by crashing their browser? ..seems kinda over exaggerated to me..
  • Stonekeeper, on 11/13/2007, -1/+15OH NOES! TEH BRWSR CRASHD!!! LAIF NAW ROOIND!!!!
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+18I find it not at all comforting that we need a whole new version of IE to get past this little bug.
  • z3rgRush, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Microsoft uses BORG technology. Your browser's shields are adapting to the environment.
  • PicklePower, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12So does anyone want to explain why/how this code does what it does?
  • p0ltergeist, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14It choked on this instruction (from the disassembly)

    mov eax,dword ptr [ecx+4]

    In this case, ecx was 0, so it tried to access 0x0004, which it didn't have access too.
  • andyduncan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12IE's positioning support is buggy as hell, it's not surprising that there's a crasher in it. It's unclear from the code if it is, as shiftt says, throwing IE6 into an infinite loop or not. Some people have mentioned regex parsing but in this situation the "*" isn't parsed as regex, though it means something similar to what "*" would mean in regex. Basically it says "everything gets position of relative". Not sure how/why the input inside a table is triggering the problem, but IE6's table handling is pretty buggy too.
  • TubaTechno, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15for some reason, the 1 line of code to crash FireFox wasn't posted......wierd.
  • inactive, on 11/13/2007, -1/+12K. Jokes been said 50 times in this thread, you're not funny. GG.
  • SteelyDuran, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10And that's why there's telnetting to port 80!
  • GliTCH82, on 10/10/2007, -4/+14Ok, maybe FireFox is more stable, but god damn if FireFox doesn't have its own share of problems. Talk about the whole ***** UI sticking while loading long comment pages. Hello? This is 2007. Can we get a proper multithreaded application here? Friends don't let friends use JAVA, *****.
  • dugh, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12http://immike.net.nyud.net:8080/blog/2007/08/06/single-line-of-html-crashes-ie-6/
  • Bamborzled, on 11/13/2007, -2/+11"IE 6/7 will jump back to the exact spot i was last on... on a website...when I hit the 'back' button, even if it was 20 'pages' long. Firefox still doesn't DO THIS SINGLE SIMPLE THING!"

    Does it for me in Firefox. Dunno what your problem is.

    "Netscape gold 3.0 was full of win." What? Are you serious? By the way, Mozilla is based on Netscape source code.
  • Kakou, on 11/13/2007, -5/+14ignore IE6 with one line of text:

    getfirefox.com
  • theone3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9It's bundled with Wii. =)
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