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Typing 'File:///' Will Crash Almost Any Mac Application

Typing 'File:///' Will Crash Almost Any Mac Application

Posted February 2, 2013 at 8:47am by iClarified
An interesting bug in OS X Mountain Lion causes almost all Mac apps to crash when typing in 'File:///', according to a Radar report spotted by 9to5Mac.

The crash is thought to be caused by Spell Checker and affects numerous apps including: Safari, TextEdit, Console, Messages, Xcode, TweetBot, Chrome, and others.

The bug does not affect Lion or Snow Leopard.


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Typing 'File:///' Will Crash Almost Any Mac Application
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Sotiris Karayannis
Sotiris Karayannis - February 5, 2013 at 6:37am
Could not reproduce bug. Tried on several applications. Running 10.8.2 on mid-2007 iMac.
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mavrik101
mavrik101 - February 4, 2013 at 3:47am
reproduced this crash as stated in the article. true, however - so what? why would this be a problem?
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can berk
can berk - February 3, 2013 at 12:07pm
was able to replicate the issue on a late 2012 RMBP. Trying to read the console log for the crash crashes the console application as well. Issue is very big!
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iH85CH001
iH85CH001 - February 3, 2013 at 9:18pm
What's "RMBP?"
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SomniusX
SomniusX - February 3, 2013 at 9:19pm
Retina Macbook Pro, oh man..
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John
John - February 3, 2013 at 9:05am
No issues here. Running mountain lion on a hackintosh
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SomniusX
SomniusX - February 3, 2013 at 9:20pm
I think it's a permissions problem of the "/" folder.. cause i'm on a hack and i ain't got the problem!
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sl33k
sl33k - February 5, 2013 at 8:02pm
I'm on hackint0sh too. 10.8.2 and it is definitly crashing my safari as well as notes and textedit. If you look at the stack trace you will see that is has something to do with the way the ":" and the "/" are dealt with in the NSSpellChecking Object.
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steve
steve - February 3, 2013 at 7:51am
what so "interesting" very few companies manged to fukup unix so badly, it is pathetic the most expensive laptops that 5year old can crash
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SomniusX
SomniusX - February 3, 2013 at 12:19am
if some one has the problem at hand, give us a dump of the bd or dmesg or activity / console so we could examine!
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aquariusrick
aquariusrick - February 3, 2013 at 12:15am
Could not reproduce the crash in Messages or Safari. Early 2011 MBP on 10.8.2. Can we get a Snopes weigh-in on this one?
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SomniusX
SomniusX - February 3, 2013 at 12:04am
haven't had any problem, tested it on any app i could find (after 10 i stopped) and i shot a quicktime screen capture to prove to a friend that i'm not affected..
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iH85CH001
iH85CH001 - February 2, 2013 at 11:05pm
Type it into the address bar in Firefox... It shows you all of your files on your computer... :) Haha! kinda scary though...
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iH85CH001
iH85CH001 - February 2, 2013 at 11:01pm
Haha!!! It just crashed Spotlight! Lol!!!!! How do people find this stuff?
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geethreeforce
geethreeforce - February 2, 2013 at 9:10pm
No issues here. Works as it should.
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Adil
Adil - February 2, 2013 at 8:51pm
Didn't crash for me. 12' MBA here.
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Guess what
Guess what - February 2, 2013 at 3:48pm
Nobody gives a crap.
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ExeciN
ExeciN - February 2, 2013 at 2:35pm
Ok lets all spam Apple with our crash-reports
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bunam
bunam - February 2, 2013 at 12:38pm
confirmed but file:/// is ok
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ArieCloud
ArieCloud - February 2, 2013 at 12:23pm
on mine, it just open finder to HDD path.. not safari crashed...
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Ash
Ash - February 2, 2013 at 10:03am
How often would you actually type that though?
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Sev
Sev - February 2, 2013 at 9:33am
yep mine did too on text edit and safari. lol
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Robert
Robert - February 2, 2013 at 9:28am
Just tested, it worked haha! Love it!
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ExeciN
ExeciN - February 2, 2013 at 2:37pm
What is your problem? Are you his student and he gave you a bad grade or something?
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MUKAI
MUKAI - February 2, 2013 at 9:24am
Not with me, my Mac is fail safe.
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