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Everything crashing: - Skype (type and right mouse click) - Sparrow (type and wait) - Chrome (address bar) - Safari (address bar) - Tweetbot - Twit

Everything crashing: - Skype (type and right mouse click) - Sparrow (type and wait) - Chrome (address bar) - Safari (address bar) - Tweetbot - Twitter.app - Mac App Store (search bar) - Base (any textbox) - terminal (in the preferences screen) Not crashing: - SublimeText Pretty much each and every text box on the entire system.

mh- 14y ago
Add Messages.app to that list, I discovered as I stupidly tried to explain how to repro it to someone..
- jhenkens 14y ago
  The fun thing about having it in messages.app, is it is actually a bug on the RECEIVING end of messages.app. And I can't seem to delete the message before the app crashes again. I'm so happy I have nice friends.
  - mathrawka 14y ago
    Disable your spell checker and it will stop crashing. Then you can delete the message, and re-enable the spell checker.
    - pyre 14y ago
      Why would the spell checker be running against in-coming messages? So that you can be a grammar pedant and annoy your friends?
      - bdash 14y ago
        My guess would be that data detectors are used to detect and format links in incoming messages.
        pyre 14y ago
        Then why would disabling Spellchecking affect that?
    - chromejs10 14y ago
      This did not fix it for me. Turned off spell checker and text substitution. Have another solution?
      - seppler 14y ago
        This will remove any messages from your iMessage database that contain %File:% (% is a wildcard): sqlite3 ~/Library/Messages/chat.db "delete from message where text like "%File:%"
- Flow 14y ago
  I dare not try it, but having that text as status on Facebook could crash those viewing my status using Safaris?
  - X-Istence 14y ago
    No, you have it in the page just fine. It is only when it is in an NSTextField that it becomes an issue.
X-Istence 14y ago
Typing it into a text box in Safari causes Safari to hang completely. Had to force quite it.
paulschreiber 14y ago
That's because SublimeText doesn't use NSTextFields, and therefore, doesn't use Data Detectors. It's not voodoo.
- paulschreiber 14y ago
  Seriously, people, learn how to read a backtrace. This is hacker news, not social-media-manager-who-claims-they-are-a-geek news.
  - Gorbzel 14y ago
    Couldn't have said it better. People act completely stupid when it comes to their OS. HOLY SHIT THERE'S A STANDARD TEXT FIELD CLASS?!?!?! APPLE IS DOOMZ0R3D!! Be a champ and submit these kind of things to your local devs and (as the super "hacker" posters say) carry on...
    - untog 14y ago
      Oh, please. What is a standard text field class doing with the text inputted into it that would cause an entire app to crash? It's a ridiculous scenario.
      - jzwinck 14y ago
        Would you have the standard text field run in a separate process sandbox? Or not have standard widgets shared between apps? Or just try real hard to write code without bugs?
        deleted 14y ago
        [deleted]
        Firehed 14y ago
        Uh, no - this is more of a "don't execute code in a textbox" thing.
Kronopath 14y ago
This bug is even crashing the crash reporter app as well. It vanishes shortly after appearing when I reproduce the bug in TextEdit.
rwl4 14y ago
Add Finder to the list. It dies if you try adding it to one of the color label names.
city41 14y ago
Sublime Text will crash if you type File:/// into the help textbox in the help menu. (This is true of basically every OSX app there is)
- chmars 14y ago
  That because menu and help search are OS X functions.
ya3r 14y ago
Typing "File:///" in these also cause a crash: Spotlight. Find field in chrome.

mh- 14y ago

Add Messages.app to that list, I discovered as I stupidly tried to explain how to repro it to someone..

jhenkens 14y ago
The fun thing about having it in messages.app, is it is actually a bug on the RECEIVING end of messages.app. And I can't seem to delete the message before the app crashes again. I'm so happy I have nice friends.
- mathrawka 14y ago
  Disable your spell checker and it will stop crashing. Then you can delete the message, and re-enable the spell checker.
  - pyre 14y ago
    Why would the spell checker be running against in-coming messages? So that you can be a grammar pedant and annoy your friends?
    - bdash 14y ago
      My guess would be that data detectors are used to detect and format links in incoming messages.
      - pyre 14y ago
        Then why would disabling Spellchecking affect that?
  - chromejs10 14y ago
    This did not fix it for me. Turned off spell checker and text substitution. Have another solution?
    - seppler 14y ago
      This will remove any messages from your iMessage database that contain %File:% (% is a wildcard): sqlite3 ~/Library/Messages/chat.db "delete from message where text like "%File:%"
Flow 14y ago
I dare not try it, but having that text as status on Facebook could crash those viewing my status using Safaris?
- X-Istence 14y ago
  No, you have it in the page just fine. It is only when it is in an NSTextField that it becomes an issue.

X-Istence 14y ago

Typing it into a text box in Safari causes Safari to hang completely. Had to force quite it.

paulschreiber 14y ago

That's because SublimeText doesn't use NSTextFields, and therefore, doesn't use Data Detectors. It's not voodoo.

paulschreiber 14y ago
Seriously, people, learn how to read a backtrace. This is hacker news, not social-media-manager-who-claims-they-are-a-geek news.
- Gorbzel 14y ago
  Couldn't have said it better. People act completely stupid when it comes to their OS. HOLY SHIT THERE'S A STANDARD TEXT FIELD CLASS?!?!?! APPLE IS DOOMZ0R3D!! Be a champ and submit these kind of things to your local devs and (as the super "hacker" posters say) carry on...
  - untog 14y ago
    Oh, please. What is a standard text field class doing with the text inputted into it that would cause an entire app to crash? It's a ridiculous scenario.
    - jzwinck 14y ago
      Would you have the standard text field run in a separate process sandbox? Or not have standard widgets shared between apps? Or just try real hard to write code without bugs?
      - deleted 14y ago
        [deleted]
      - Firehed 14y ago
        Uh, no - this is more of a "don't execute code in a textbox" thing.

Kronopath 14y ago

This bug is even crashing the crash reporter app as well. It vanishes shortly after appearing when I reproduce the bug in TextEdit.

rwl4 14y ago

Add Finder to the list. It dies if you try adding it to one of the color label names.

city41 14y ago

Sublime Text will crash if you type File:/// into the help textbox in the help menu. (This is true of basically every OSX app there is)

chmars 14y ago
That because menu and help search are OS X functions.

ya3r 14y ago

Typing "File:///" in these also cause a crash: Spotlight. Find field in chrome.