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Status: Untriaged
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OS: All
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Infinite window.history.back() causes browser breakage

Reported by andrew.h...@gmail.com, Jun 23 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Open new Tab
2. Go to a website
3. In console run the following:      while(true){window.history.back()}

What is the expected behavior?
Own tab should be unresponsive / throwing an error notice.  Should not impact the ability of other tabs.

What went wrong?
All tabs become unresponsive.  Cannot navigate to new pages.  Causes processor to overheat.  Cannot close browser.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 51.0.2704.103  Channel: stable
OS Version: OS X 10.11.5
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 22.0 r0
 

Comment 1 by pdr@chromium.org, Jun 23 2016

Cc: calamity@chromium.org
Components: -Blink UI>Browser>History
Status: Available (was: Unconfirmed)
Confirmed. Assigning to Browser>History for further triage. This might have security implications too.
Project Member

Comment 2 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Jun 26 2017

Labels: Hotlist-Recharge-Cold
Status: Untriaged (was: Available)
This issue has been Available for over a year. If it's no longer important or seems unlikely to be fixed, please consider closing it out. If it is important, please re-triage the issue.

Sorry for the inconvenience if the bug really should have been left as Available. If you change it back, also remove the "Hotlist-Recharge-Cold" label.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
Update: Still causes rapid processor overheating.  Can now close the offending tab however other tabs are unable to be closed and the browser becomes unresponsive to quit actions.  Seems to still be some issue.
Labels: -OS-Mac OS-All

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