atc » Windows http://blog.alexcollins.org Musings of technology, sport, life et al Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:24:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Tasty Google Chrome Bug – So Much For Isolated Tabs/Processes http://blog.alexcollins.org/2008/09/04/tasty-google-chrome-bug-so-much-for-isolated-tabsprocesses/ http://blog.alexcollins.org/2008/09/04/tasty-google-chrome-bug-so-much-for-isolated-tabsprocesses/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:01:39 +0000 atc http://blog.beplacid.net/2008/09/04/tasty-google-chrome-bug-so-much-for-isolated-tabsprocesses/ Update: it seems this bug was already reported, but the amusement value seemed to escape most of the web.

The web’s abuzz with talk of Google’s new venture – Chrome. My workplace is no exception; in fact we’ve had numerous discussions about it, spanning from “should we support it” to adoption paths.

One of Chrome’s highlights is its isolated tabs. The idea is that tabs run as separate processes, so if one lags, the rest still operate correctly. Therefore, it was quite a surprise when a colleague emailed me with this nifty trick to crash Chrome:

 Type this into a Chrome tab’s address bar
:%

No need to press enter, it happens as soon as you hit %. Here’s a screenshot:

Google Chrome Crash

Again: so much for isolated tabs.

Note: I’ve submitted a bug report here

- atc

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Pyela is an object oriented (OO) API for communicating with an Eternal Lands server. It aims to be a simple wrapper for socket operations and messages that pertain to the undocumented Eternal Lands Network Protocol. A demonstration of the API is easy to see in the Pyela – GUI application, which is a Eternal Lands chat client written using Pyela. You can download that here.

Pyela is released under the GPL3 and is open to patches and any suggestions you may have and is hosted by Google code – pyela.googlecode.com.

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