Weirdest. Bug. Ever.

[sabotabby]

For reference here's the culprit. Strangely, the same goes for the "O RRY?" variation.

Has anyone else had this problem?

Comments

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

didn't crash me. Where's the original site?

[sabotabby]

The image I linked to doesn't crash my browser; it is but a small, benign version of the horrid thing. will63's latest post killed my browser dead.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

That's the biggest animated gif I've ever seen. But I didn't crash.

[sabotabby]

How Odd.

[roter-terror.livejournal.com]

[sabotabby]

That didn't do it.

It is clearly the owl, not the phrase.

[frippy.livejournal.com]

If it was the one at orizzle.ytmnd.com, it didn't crash Safari for me. Hmm.

[sabotabby]

I'm narrowing it down:

Any large O RLY? owl on LJ.

[chainsaw-hime.livejournal.com]

O Rly?

Ya Rly.

[sabotabby]

Rly rly?

[chainsaw-hime.livejournal.com]

O snap.

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

Not rly.

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

Huh? Wha...? It shows up in other browsers though, right?

[sabotabby]

Yep. Internet Explorer isn't a problem.

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

That is really a bizarre bug. As far as I can tell, that little owl is just a run-of-the-mill jpeg image. Weird!

[wlach.livejournal.com]

If they were storing the animated gif in a fixed-length buffer internally, you might run into this problem. I have a hard time believing Apple would make such an amateurish mistake: a sure way to find out whether this is the case would be to create an animated gif that was equally big (in uncompressed form) and try displaying that.

[sabotabby]

It's a good idea, but they don't show up often enough to make it worthwhile to test out the theory.

I've run into a few weird things with Safari, though; makes me wonder if it's just a buggy program.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

I'd love to be the support person checking this one out.

[sabotabby]

I like to think that I made someone's day. Safari crashes a lot, and when it happens repeatedly I have a tendency to send strange things to the tech support people.

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

That's the funniest error message I've seen. I bet it's a hoax written in by the maker of the animation.

[sabotabby]

It's what pops up when a program crashes in OSX -- you're supposed to write in that bottom part what you did to make it crash. So that's what I wrote. I think the people who have to read all of those probably get bored, so I like to write in things that might amuse them.

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

O rly?

[sabotabby]

ya rly.

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

Fo sho rly?

[sabotabby]

Fo' shizzle.

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

Whoa Nly.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

This is turning into the O'Really Factor ... which is now a book.

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

O RLY!!!!!!!

(Who cut off my mic?)

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

You have discovered B-25, known colloquially as the "O RLY" Basilisk (http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm). Be sure to wear protective specs next time.

[sabotabby]

::snerk::

I love it.

[symonblack.livejournal.com]

[sabotabby]

Haha. It's time to play "post macros and see which ones will kill sabotabby's browser. ;)

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Speaking of computers and computer speak, I had to send you this tidbit. ... Except I think the author meant to say "Eighteenth century."

[sabotabby]

I fear that I speak intarwebs better than I speak pirate, even though pirate is a better dialect. I need to work on that.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Bush will probably ignore this warning as well.