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Comment by etamponi | Hacker News Reader

Sorry for the slightly offtopic question: this page caused Chrome on my mobile phone to freeze completely. I had to reboot my phone, and even after that, I had to figure out a way to close the tab without opening Chrome. Did it happen to someone else?

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Damn, I thought I was crazy. I had to reset Chrome to get it working again, could finally read the article after I installed Firefox.

Android 12 with Chrome v103.

Had the same problem. The browser was essentially soft locked as the tab would be brought back after restarting the app until I cleared Chrome's storage which closes all tabs (and clears history, cookies, etc. too which is a bit annoying).

Yes, actually. Works perfectly fine on Firefox but on both Chrome and Bromite it causes the browser to crash. My phone just let me kill the app after a few seconds but there's definitely something weird going on here.

Interesting, I have Bromite set up to disable JIT by default, so if it's because it weird JS, it's a bug in both the JIT engine and in the interpreter.

Edit: I doubt it's JS related because this site doesn't seem to use JS (unless there's some UA sniffing going on). I'm guessing this is a Chrome bug, hopefully not an exploitable one!

Android 11, Chrome 103.

Although I won't ship you my phone, it worked on 103.0.5060.71 chrome on Android

Nope, but I can see the jsfuck example doing something like that as it kinda weirdly lagged on mine (android 12, chrome 103).

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