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Interesting. Is it possible to share it here?

• GrandMasterBirt 17y ago
  Absolutely... give me some time though I have to find it. Its a special regular expression where basically the regex engine can't decide which greedy quantifier to use leading in an insanely long evaluation. I opened a firefox bug for it a while back. Ok found the link: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520086 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520086 Strangely this does not crash google chrome. Impressive!!!! Err, correction, the regex now runs reasonably fast in the most recent of regex engines but I think on a long enough string it should still fail. The string "dead:parrot(skit = 123372398547895743957574395743957439579435" now kills the browser. However, unlike firefox in which regex runs in C space not JS space, google chrome/chromium recognizes that the page is unresponsive completely and kills the process, only the one process is unresponsive the rest of the browser works. Good job google! Edit: This will kill Opera, Firefox (any), IE (any)