A developer has discovered a hack in Google Chrome which can crash the Chrome tab on a Mac PC.

you could find the bug report about the samehere.

If you are a Mac user and using Chrome kindly do not choose the link.

Chromium Hack : special 13 character can crash Chrome Browser Tab on a Mac PC

Matt C has reported the bug to Google, who have marked the report as duplicate.

This means that Google are aware of the problem and are reportedly working on it.

will crash the chrome tab on a Mac2.

Chromium Hack : special 13 character can crash Chrome Browser Tab on a Mac PC

You could imagine someone spamming this message in hangouts/gmail and just straight-up force crashing all Mac Chrome browsers.

Someone could post this on Facebook, and force-crash all Mac Chrome browers that saw it.

Apparently these small rectangles are shown when a obsolete system cant read the script.

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Even opening the code in Apple Safari throws up similar rectangles.

The bug looks to be small and inconsequential but in the right hands it can cause deliberate problems.

Imagine if someone makes a tweet with this script or someone posts in on his/her Facebook timeline.

As Matt C puts it, This is pretty serious.

You could imagine someone spamming this message in Hangouts/Gmail and just straight-up force crashing all Mac Chrome browsers.

PS : Opening this page in Google Chrome might as well crash your tab on Mac PC.

source: www.techworm.net