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It appears to crash Google Chrome on Windows 7 as well, which makes me think that it's a problem with WebKit.

Firefox 3.6.3 was a little iffy with it and stopped responding several times, but did eventually pull through.

IE 9 did not appear to be adversely affected.

Chrome shows me the Oops, crashed tab. Does it crash the entire browser for you? (Windows XP, 15.0.874.120 m)

Surely that's what steverb means. That tab is describing a crash: the page renderer or javascript interpreter segfaulted. The user experience is obviously much better in Chrome because of the process sandboxing, but the bug is likely the same.

Yes. It just causes the single page to crash. The rest of my tabs are unaffected. I personally don't think this is a big deal, unless there were some way to execute evil code. It's not the first time I've had a page crash a Chrome tab.

Crashes my android phone as well.

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