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10GB Favicon Bug Crashes Browsers

posted by janrinok on Tuesday June 23 2015, @02:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the simple-but-effective dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

A Favicon bug lets Chrome and Firefox download huge favicon files to the point they crash the browser:

Andrea De Pasquale posted a tweet saying "Weird 64MB favicon.ico turning out to be a TAR backup of the whole WP site, downloaded by every browser passing by."

This creepy bug makes Chrome and Firefox download the huge favicon files to the point till they crash the browser. The silliest part is that the users are not at all aware of this download as it is all done in the background and who is truly to be blamed for this.

[...] Technically, the existence of this bug is no surprise, as there is no rule of standard anywhere which states that the favicon files have to be below a specified limit. As a matter of fact, the favicon files need not have to be .ico files. A lot of GIF, PNG or JPEG files are used with popular websites, and there are no limitations linked to the file's extension.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by WizardFusion on Tuesday June 23 2015, @04:03PM

    by WizardFusion (498) on Tuesday June 23 2015, @04:03PM (#199949) Journal

    By the way soes anyone know how to totally disable iOS autocorrect

    At the risk of being marked as a troll, don't use apple products.

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday June 23 2015, @05:02PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Tuesday June 23 2015, @05:02PM (#199980) Homepage Journal

    and led the standards committee that defined a protocol for interapplication text processing.

    to me autocorrect is particularly vexing because spellswell and lookup both worked better in the 1980s. apple could have licensed our oem engine rather than coming up with this crud at great expense.

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    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday June 24 2015, @12:30AM

      by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday June 24 2015, @12:30AM (#200168) Journal

      The licensing conditions for Spellswell perhaps wasn't what Apple liked?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2015, @05:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2015, @05:10PM (#199984)

    I hate this victim-blaming nonsense. You're saying that the way to prevent having your home broken into is to not have a home, and the way to prevent having your stuff stolen is to not own anything. Stop it with this bullshit, its disgusting. It doesn't help anything and just lets everyone know what an asshole you are.