File://abc crashes TextEdit
Hi,
when I type File://abc it crashes many applications, including TextEdit. That happens only on 10.8.
Anyone else experiencing this?
Thanks.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
You just did it!!!
Oh noooo....
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But I'm in Snow Leopard, so I live to see another day. 🙂
It is not only File:// and then abc behind it. Also File:// with a third / behind it. It is a known phenomenon in Mountain Lion, Apple is aware of it.
There are more threads here. If you want to search for it type a space between the slashes otherwise your application will crash.
As Lex says, it is a well documented, obscure bug. Apple is aware of it and working on a fix.
It's unlikely you'll ever see it unless you decide to try this at home.
So...
Do not try this at home!!!
Or at work... or anywhere.
I have a dalily email summary of posts sent to me. The posts from this thread all came out blank! At least they did not crash Mail...
> If you want to search for it type a space between the slashes otherwise your application will crash.
Nope. Running Firefox on 10.6.8. All smooth and fine here ;)
By the way: is Xcode also affected? I'm trying to imagine that poor fella who's supposed to write the unit-test for that one ;) (And Apple does "test first" development, right? Right? ;))
I think any app that has the default text view and supports data detectors will exhibit this problem. So Xcode may be affected.
How common it is to type that as File: followed by 3 slashes with a capital F seems the issue. Can absolutely every combination on earth be tested? I mean, now that word is out it's easily to replicate it, but if the problem has been around for many months and was only found by someone now, it must mean it's not very common to see, given there are tens of millions of people using the OS every day. URL conventions are all lower case so I'd say the workaround for now is just to type the file URL properly if you want to use it ;-)
File://abc crashes TextEdit