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mschuster91 · 2015-07-21 19:41:17+00:00

Bit unrelated, but this website crashes Chrome on my Android phone, crashes the WebView inside my HN reader app, and brings my aged netbook to its knees. Oh, and my company MBP's fans blast on full until I close the page.

What the fucking fuck is this thing doing with the RAM/CPU of my system? For heaven's sake, it's a load of text with a couple of pictures.

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WalterBright | karma 71923 | avg karma 2.96 · | 2017-07-26 16:48:53+00:00

The article web site crashes Chrome.

hunterhusar | karma -11 | avg karma -1.57 · | 2013-01-14 18:51:29+00:00

This site just caused Chrome to crash.

spot | karma 1613 | avg karma 2.48 · | 2013-08-30 16:52:10+00:00

that page crashes my chrome.

hayksaakian | karma 5338 | avg karma 2.43 · | 2015-06-17 03:49:16+00:00

wow that's the first time in years that a website crashed my entire computer (currently using a 1.3ghz dual core new macbook)

radu_floricica | karma 3871 | avg karma 2.3 · | 2009-06-12 18:57:03+00:00

Apparently it crashes Chrome.

yesbabyyes | karma 3908 | avg karma 4.45 · | 2011-06-14 16:29:17+00:00

Yep, it crashed my Android browser and it's laggy as hell on Chromium 13 on a maxed out Macbook Air.

omniglottal | karma 308 | avg karma 0.98 · | 2022-08-18 17:24:48

This reliably and repeatedly locks up and crashes my mobile embedded browser and its parent app, my HN reader (Materialistic). I've never seen a more aggressively crashing site in all my years... took me 6 tries to post this comment, only once I bypassed the linked article/site.

mijoharas | karma 1986 | avg karma 2.18 · | 2024-05-29 20:07:47

Wow... That site (continue.dev) managed to consistently crash my mobile google chrome.

I've had the odd crash now and again, but I can't think of many sites that will reliably make it hard crash. It's almost impressive.

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gkbrk | karma 2202 | avg karma 4.56 · | 2019-07-27 05:30:07+00:00

Not sure if there's anything wrong with the page or not, but when I visited it locked up my machine and used a lot of RAM until Firefox killed the tab.

achairapart | karma 2112 | avg karma 4.61 · | 2021-06-18 11:11:51+00:00

Warning: This page almost crashed my browser (FireFox on MacOS) and put my CPU on fire.

JoeyBananas | karma 898 | avg karma 0.86 · | 2023-12-07 15:30:37

this page crashed my brower (android Chrome) lol

obituary_latte | karma 1847 | avg karma 3.03 · | 2012-03-23 14:40:17+00:00

It crashed my browser too. Twice. Big tower-computer-thingy with a couple of meg-joules of RAM and Pewter web browser.

Thankfully, I was able to spot the problem after visiting the page with my lawnmower: http://i.imgur.com/4jnGv.png

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sametmax | karma 16793 | avg karma 3.97 · | 2016-04-21 16:11:59+00:00

The page makes my browser crash.

cm2187 | karma 24483 | avg karma 3.15 · | 2016-06-02 15:57:43+00:00

This website is crashing chrome. Congratulations!

osrec | karma 5622 | avg karma 3.49 · | 2018-07-17 09:33:33

The website caused my tab in Chrome on mobile to crash each time I tried to open it.

chadrs | karma 1140 | avg karma 14.62 · | 2012-03-15 02:01:39+00:00

Heh, this managed to crash Chrome on my laptop.

fr0z3nph03n1x | karma 2 | avg karma 0.5 · | 2009-04-29 04:02:04+00:00

This website crashes my browser hardcore

sublimepua | karma 15 | avg karma 2.5 · | 2011-07-26 08:50:07+00:00

this site crashes my chrome tab if I have more than 5 tabs open with it.

65a | karma 347 | avg karma 2.03 · | 2024-01-17 22:35:42

Uh...should this have hard crashed a linux laptop running recent kernel and chrome?

EDIT: Not going back there, someone please let me know which Web* technology this is based on so I can disable it, it's outside my risk profile.

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