The Link That Can Crash Chrome: http://a/%%30%30

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  • Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
  • tomscott.com - / tomscott - In the news today: a link which, when moused over or clicked on, crashes Google Chrome. It's a heck of a bug: but how does it work, and what does it have to do with "null-terminated strings"?
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Комментарии • 9 тыс.

  • @Ziotic
    @Ziotic 5 лет назад +26531

    RUclips is showing us this now cause it doesn't work anymore.

  • @acaterpillargivingbirth
    @acaterpillargivingbirth 4 года назад +37778

    Jokes on you, Chrome on my computer don't need this link to crash.

  • @grande1899
    @grande1899 9 лет назад +40068

    They should leave this issue unfixed and let it become the new rickroll instead.

  • @jukmifggugghposer
    @jukmifggugghposer 2 года назад +651

    I love all these old "Tom Scott explains some viral coding bug" videos. They're super succinct while still giving a totally satisfying explanation of the phenomenon.

  • @ColorfulMusicNeko
    @ColorfulMusicNeko 8 лет назад +11195

    So basically, Chrome gets terribly confused, panics, and runs away.

    • @mortvald
      @mortvald 8 лет назад +537

      Crashing is a good thing, if there wasn't a crashing safeguard the data file will get corrupted and have an irreparable damage for both your computer and the server.

    • @ColorfulMusicNeko
      @ColorfulMusicNeko 8 лет назад +50

      Sousuke Aizen Well, damn!

    • @Kris2340k
      @Kris2340k 8 лет назад +40

      would you rather it blow up xD

    • @janekmuric
      @janekmuric 8 лет назад +176

      Not really. Not handling exceptions can't cause data corruption unless it's a low level function (for example memory managment in C). And even if it bugs out at any low level the only data you lose is in RAM (or any *single* file your process has opened), which isn't that bad since most new programs (MS Office, some Chrome extensions) save multiple copies of the file (two in temporary dir, and one at real location) and auto-save every few minutes.
      And don't get me even started on that "_both you computer *and the server*_" nonsense. Nothing would happen to the server.

    • @chrisjlocke
      @chrisjlocke 7 лет назад +3

      SpiritWolf - where would it run to???

  • @Petar321_GT
    @Petar321_GT 4 года назад +7255

    * How to be a bad friend *
    Step one: Take friends laptop and set this for his homepage.

    • @mylittledashie7419
      @mylittledashie7419 4 года назад +577

      ... that... that was 2 steps.

    • @raghavhada3550
      @raghavhada3550 4 года назад +83

      @@mylittledashie7419 Whoopsie

    • @Petar321_GT
      @Petar321_GT 4 года назад +425

      @@mylittledashie7419 **Trying to find out how to delete someone else's comment*

    • @oricalu448
      @oricalu448 4 года назад +50

      Also, this vunerability was 4 years ago. Its been patched.

    • @ahard-daysnight6659
      @ahard-daysnight6659 4 года назад +29

      MyLittleDashie 7 are/waooosh!!! It wa s. A joke you bufoon!!!!!!!!!!!! R/wosh

  • @Lauren-hinrichsen
    @Lauren-hinrichsen 3 года назад +18255

    "If you're watching this in the future, it's probably fixed"
    Me, genuinely upset that I won't be able to crash chrome today: 😔

    • @Bullshit_Media
      @Bullshit_Media 3 года назад +100

      Me too!

    • @TheSourLemon.
      @TheSourLemon. 3 года назад +131

      You never know If you dont try

    • @PrivacyNProgramming
      @PrivacyNProgramming 3 года назад +358

      You can actually crash it by downgrading your chrome browser(do this on a computer that you don't need chrome on) to the update before the bug was fixed and it will work

    • @gwerneckpaiva
      @gwerneckpaiva 3 года назад +7

      ikr

    • @13_cmi
      @13_cmi 3 года назад +19

      There is a typo in "A"

  • @elmundialero4315
    @elmundialero4315 2 года назад +1259

    Its amazing how similar code reading and mRNA duplication are. They both have a start string and a "null" string to finish. Amazing

    • @redtreatrick5265
      @redtreatrick5265 2 года назад +43

      In the end, its all bound to mathematics

    • @TD-yx8yo
      @TD-yx8yo 2 года назад +54

      @Juju Tze No, biologically mRNA synthesis starts and stops based on a specific DNA sequence, not because humans use coding to read mRNA.

    • @darshtailor7030
      @darshtailor7030 2 года назад +9

      It's start at methionine and ends at the stop codon

    • @wellshit9489
      @wellshit9489 2 года назад +13

      @@TD-yx8yo but mRNA is a sort of coding though

    • @makuogoku2102
      @makuogoku2102 2 года назад +16

      @@TD-yx8yo be it DNA or be it RNA, they're all codes that program our bodies. If I remember right, when I was in highschool learning about basics of coding, the code that we wrote in C++ is somekind of raw code, we must let computers translate that code into another code before running it. It's similar to DNA being the raw code and mRNA being the translated code, it's rules of this world anyway, like how math exists in every form on earth. the earth codings is much more complicated than human's codings tho.

  • @Kravensini
    @Kravensini 5 лет назад +10620

    RUclips recommends this to me... 3 YEARS LATER!

  • @dronecanon9794
    @dronecanon9794 3 года назад +4637

    I love how tom always considers you may be watching in the future

  • @Tajdutta
    @Tajdutta 4 года назад +3658

    You should have been like:
    Link in discription

  • @koopalovetoast2409
    @koopalovetoast2409 2 года назад +107

    It always sends shivers down my spine when some sound starts repeating or something because bluescreens are my worst nightmare

    • @theevilwatermelon2070
      @theevilwatermelon2070 Год назад +1

      same bro

    • @DukGood
      @DukGood Год назад +1

      YESS SAME-

    • @crusaderanimation6967
      @crusaderanimation6967 11 месяцев назад

      Form me it's the same but for Bugs in GENERALLY that take most/all screen and or glitch sound, idk why but i'm scared shitless.

    • @interstellarinc-z5s
      @interstellarinc-z5s 9 месяцев назад

      replay a part if you want to get a heart attack

  • @Stoyd333
    @Stoyd333 3 года назад +6666

    0:12: "As long as you aren't watching this off in the future."
    Me: 5 years after this was uploaded: "Oh, well ok then"

    • @aaydenfinnigan3555
      @aaydenfinnigan3555 3 года назад +49

      This is was only five years ago. Are you from the future?

    • @quixz6335
      @quixz6335 3 года назад +24

      Not sure you understand what the other guy was trying to say, the video is only 5 years old and you said you’re watching it when the video is 6 years old

    • @forsakenprotector486
      @forsakenprotector486 3 года назад +3

      Theres one that just crashes windows now

    • @andrewtate8057
      @andrewtate8057 3 года назад +1

      @@quixz6335 this doesn't make any sense

    • @RighteousWilderness
      @RighteousWilderness 3 года назад

      @@andrewtate8057 no not this future..the other five years prior

  • @AECX99
    @AECX99 5 лет назад +4403

    I wonder how many C programmers got mad when you called NULL terminated strings dirty

  • @Skydude69
    @Skydude69 8 лет назад +3167

    That exit was brilliant.

  • @Messier1071
    @Messier1071 Год назад +8

    7 years later and RUclips still recommended the video

  • @aleksd286
    @aleksd286 5 лет назад +4597

    Thanks RUclips. Just what I needed in 2018/2019. A 2015 vulnerability

    • @leftylizard9085
      @leftylizard9085 5 лет назад +68

      Well obviously they're not going to tell you about any current ones.

    • @KasaiYuppa
      @KasaiYuppa 4 года назад +15

      hindsight is 2020

    • @aleksd286
      @aleksd286 4 года назад +3

      @@stewartrun No, it got fixed 5 years ago

    • @aleksd286
      @aleksd286 4 года назад +8

      @@stewartrun Yet the video is about "Google Chrome". LMAO.

    • @CasualMicb
      @CasualMicb 4 года назад +3

      Welp 5 years later it recommended me this again

  • @fortnitedaily365
    @fortnitedaily365 4 года назад +14574

    POV: RUclips recommended this to you after 5 years.

  • @robertrayhart
    @robertrayhart 7 лет назад +2825

    *You have to put it in your address bar and then hit Alt+F4. Then it works as of February 2017 :)*

    • @dusanmutuc1019
      @dusanmutuc1019 7 лет назад +16

      noticed dude youre everywhere :D

    • @zashtozaboga
      @zashtozaboga 6 лет назад +76

      That's not crashing the browser, that's exiting it.

    • @nasgun
      @nasgun 6 лет назад +139

      jokes on you, i used mac

    • @nad2040
      @nad2040 5 лет назад +10

      and november 2018

    • @grimtin10
      @grimtin10 5 лет назад +11

      and december 2018

  • @Talking__Ben
    @Talking__Ben 9 месяцев назад +12

    Tom has not changed. I thought this was uploaded recently, and tried the link on three different browsers to see if it would work.

  • @jeffschulte4630
    @jeffschulte4630 8 лет назад +6705

    who else tried it and got dissapointed when it didnt work

  • @efren.hurtado
    @efren.hurtado 5 лет назад +925

    2019: RUclips recommends this video and it's been patched

  • @charcharslide239
    @charcharslide239 3 года назад +3195

    "if you're living off in the future"
    i wish i wasnt living in this future

    • @morlokvestai-kurak9680
      @morlokvestai-kurak9680 3 года назад +61

      If you believe in parallel universes, somewhere in an alternate reality, 2020 was a great year.

    • @precisionaim5954
      @precisionaim5954 3 года назад +12

      much better time to be alive compared to everything else that's happened in history.

    • @mrosskne
      @mrosskne 3 года назад +4

      A video can only be viewed in the future relative to its upload, by definition

    • @__________________________4781
      @__________________________4781 3 года назад

      Same 😔✊

    • @ObsidianG
      @ObsidianG 3 года назад +1

      For the purposes of radiocarbon dating "The Present" is actually 1950. So Strictly speaking you are living no less than 70 years into the future!

  • @nickyd0008
    @nickyd0008 2 года назад +223

    "If you're watching this in the future. it's probably fixed"
    Me, who got this on recommendations 6 years after this was uploaded and wants to try it: My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
    115

    • @GodronATX
      @GodronATX 2 года назад +5

      "If you're watching this in the future. it's probably fixed"
      Me, who got this on recommendations 6 years after this was uploaded and wants to try it: My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
      116

    • @_Gab.
      @_Gab. 2 года назад

      "if you're watching this in the future. it's probably fixed"
      Me, who got this on recommendations 6 years after with was uploaded and wants to try it: My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
      117

    • @MrweebOT
      @MrweebOT 2 года назад +1

      "If you're watching this in the future. it's probably fixed"
      Me, who got this on recommendations 6 years after this was uploaded and wants to try it: My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
      118

    • @AmanBulu
      @AmanBulu 2 года назад +5

      "If you're watching this in the future. it's probably fixed"
      Me, who got this on recommendations 6 years after this was uploaded and wants to try it: My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
      you thought it was 119, but it was me DIO

    • @kevinp.a1722
      @kevinp.a1722 2 года назад

      same :/

  • @fakename7423
    @fakename7423 4 года назад +1127

    *google* : let’s recommend this cause we fixed it

  • @roleye
    @roleye 4 года назад +1628

    0:11 "if you're watching this in the future"
    It's creepy when they can tell

    • @jonasaqueous77
      @jonasaqueous77 4 года назад +137

      you're not watching in the past are you

    • @ohg4338
      @ohg4338 4 года назад +6

      jonas aqueous big whooosh

    • @jonasaqueous77
      @jonasaqueous77 4 года назад +78

      @@ohg4338 it wasn't a joke to begin with so that doesn't work

    • @rubenaalexander5007
      @rubenaalexander5007 4 года назад +16

      @@jonasaqueous77 No they just meant that it's creepy because it's so far in the future that it doesn't work anymore. Of course when you watch a video you're watching it after it was posted (aka the future). The person who replied to you is just saying that your comment was a bit of a buzzkill, is all.

    • @Oxideacid
      @Oxideacid 4 года назад +22

      That's how time works. Welcome to the universe.

  • @OralOkan
    @OralOkan 8 лет назад +556

    This is absolutely fantastic. Not only does it explain a rather subtle bug very well, it also does an incredible job at introducing pointers, memory representation and string termination. While these concepts seem simple once accustomed to them, they are rather tricky to explain to someone with no prior experience. Seriously, thanks a lot for this video! I will probably refer to it quite often in the future, taking 5 minutes to have someone watch it whenever I have to explain this stuff!

    • @lancetheking7524
      @lancetheking7524 2 года назад +2

      *I definitely understood everything*

    • @realunreal7229
      @realunreal7229 2 года назад

      did you do it?

    • @MeiinUK
      @MeiinUK 2 года назад

      From the C++ days to the web pythons, and AIs.... Gosh... Well.... This is already 5 years old ? It must mean that migration has happened already.... Sigh. I hate the current world. I genuinely hates it.

  • @hahahhahhahahahahhahahahah6027
    @hahahhahhahahahahhahahahah6027 2 года назад +9

    "As long as you arent watching this off in the future"
    Me just now getting this recommended to me after 6 years: "dam"

  • @d4nielDayZContent
    @d4nielDayZContent 9 лет назад +2276

    The video that kills his own watchtime.

    • @TomScottGo
      @TomScottGo  9 лет назад +456

      +PunktKommaNull I did not think this through.

    • @Drivebymumble
      @Drivebymumble 9 лет назад +43

      +Tom Scott I'd love to see an interesting analysis of some of your viewing statistics by you.

    • @erurevir
      @erurevir 9 лет назад +7

      Or increases it depending on the kind of viewer.

    • @jimmboy93
      @jimmboy93 9 лет назад +87

      +PunktKommaNull A way to get double views from users by forcing them to open vid twice :D

    • @d4nielDayZContent
      @d4nielDayZContent 9 лет назад +7

      Jimmy L I knew he thought this through very well!

  • @AlxHotCocoaMan
    @AlxHotCocoaMan 4 года назад +355

    "oh, hey, y'know im gonna try th-"
    "5 years ago...hm"

    • @yajnesh9585
      @yajnesh9585 3 года назад +1

      ⏣⏣

    • @Sohlstyce
      @Sohlstyce 3 года назад +1

      better link to crash stuff: \\.\globalroot\device\condrv\kernelconnect

    • @asimo3030
      @asimo3030 3 года назад

      @@Sohlstyce uh huh nice try

  • @pip00
    @pip00 3 года назад +665

    Glad this was recommended to me today instead of 6 YEARS EARLIER when it actually works

    • @Soph_252
      @Soph_252 2 года назад +4

      same xD

    • @thecrazygorillavvrr
      @thecrazygorillavvrr 2 года назад +3

      Same

    • @rangert0769
      @rangert0769 2 года назад +1

      late gang!

    • @arduous222
      @arduous222 Год назад

      I'm still too afraid to try this because I'm honestly not sure if this is fixed or people are baiting...

    • @becurious24x7
      @becurious24x7 Год назад

      @@arduous222 it is fixed 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

  • @dat_randomguy_
    @dat_randomguy_ 2 года назад +2

    Tom: Uploads this video in 2015
    RUclips in 2022: Hey AusGames I think you will like this video!
    the algorithm is weird

  • @samotten9874
    @samotten9874 9 лет назад +818

    I don't know why I decided to test this but I did and chrome crashed. Then I had to load this up again so I just completely wasted my time.

    • @dudemanbobthing
      @dudemanbobthing 9 лет назад +10

      +Sam Otten i mean it takes what five seconds? Chrome will say it crashed do you want to relaunch? you say yes, it will say "chrome didn't shut down correctly, restore last session?" you say yes and boom, it's like nothing ever happened.

    • @samotten9874
      @samotten9874 9 лет назад +50

      +Absolute Zer0 Yes but I still just wasted 5-10 seconds for no good reason, although now I've spent longer than that replying to this for no good reason. Meh.

    • @dudemanbobthing
      @dudemanbobthing 9 лет назад +39

      Sam Otten it was my plan all along. Now you have wasted even MORE precious seconds reading this comment.

    • @axelord4ever
      @axelord4ever 9 лет назад +49

      Hardly a waste of time.
      You set up a test and got a result out of it.
      The reaction is knowledge and it was not a waste.

    • @lorenzvo5284
      @lorenzvo5284 9 лет назад

      +Sam Otten all hail the flying spagehetti monster

  • @octagonapus1421
    @octagonapus1421 3 года назад +653

    What crashed chrome on 2015: this one of a type link
    What crashes chrome in 2020: one video of wide Putin and polish cow

    • @MrYossarianuk
      @MrYossarianuk 3 года назад +4

      @da dog wit da big nose * Windows PC * Linux is fine

    • @resneptacle
      @resneptacle 3 года назад +3

      @da dog wit da big nose Why add Linux there? It's a bit unnecessary, ain't it?

    • @cghbv1585
      @cghbv1585 3 года назад +6

      I once had 10,000 photos of soldier tf2 high on plant and tried to delete them all but I got phantom gb instead but I fixed it by activating iCloud photos

    • @livwithpeacee
      @livwithpeacee 3 года назад +1

      @da dog wit da big nose wait does it actually just crash it or will it do something else O-o

    • @Rossallycious
      @Rossallycious 3 года назад +5

      @@resneptacle Linux users like to flex.

  • @KyleAllenMusic
    @KyleAllenMusic 7 лет назад +135

    Dang it! Google fixed it :/

  • @SuperGaming-6777
    @SuperGaming-6777 Год назад +6

    Ah the RUclips Algorithm has summoned me to watch this video at 3AM

  • @velvetdrgn
    @velvetdrgn 8 лет назад +2984

    I copied the URL into my adress bar, just to find out this video is a jear old -_-

  • @deadmemer4370
    @deadmemer4370 4 года назад +485

    You led us to "a"
    You've doomed us all

  • @AdamSalehx
    @AdamSalehx 3 года назад +3031

    So RUclips (google) recommends me this video to crash it 👁❤👁

    • @rahe2141
      @rahe2141 3 года назад +28

      How did you get 150k subs with 4 uploads and lies than 5k views?

    • @JavaJake123
      @JavaJake123 3 года назад +71

      Do I smell sub boting and not funny jokes? Yes I do.

    • @AdamSalehx
      @AdamSalehx 3 года назад +5

      @@JavaJake123 okay👤👍

    • @TheGreatestFusion
      @TheGreatestFusion 3 года назад +33

      I feel like you sub bot

    • @yuyukosfaithfulservant
      @yuyukosfaithfulservant 3 года назад +1

      well its not a link on ms edge soooo

  • @greenscreengrandmaster
    @greenscreengrandmaster Год назад +4

    Why yt gotta prank me by recommending this 7 years later 😭

  • @AndriusKamarauskas
    @AndriusKamarauskas 8 лет назад +1593

    just make this page in chrome home page:D

  • @LextechLighting
    @LextechLighting 3 года назад +1142

    1:47 “we’ve got plenty of memory, but there’s a cache” 😁😁😁💯💯

  • @Nako3
    @Nako3 Год назад +4

    I am watching this from the future, how did you know?

  • @hhaxden
    @hhaxden 9 лет назад +135

    I feel sorry for the Chrome programmers. This would be incredibly frustrating to fix.

    • @TomScottGo
      @TomScottGo  9 лет назад +185

      +hhaxden I've put a link in the description to the actual bug report on Google Code. To quote one of the developers: "this is a mess."

    • @TrabberShir
      @TrabberShir 9 лет назад +45

      +Tom Scott To be fair, the mess you keep referring to from comment 14 isn't a mess because it is hard to fix, but because every possible fix seems to break standards compliance and violate expected behavior in some way. The mess isn't the effort in fixing but the effort in deciding which fix is appropriate.
      Luckily comment 36 clarified exactly how the standards say it should be handled and sadly it was determined in subsequent comments that making chrome standards compliant in that respect would untenable due to some assumptions in the design of "the extra validation we do on receiving URLs over IPC" so they were back to deciding which way of breaking URL handling is preferable to fix the crash.
      Honestly the code wasn't too bad, there was a one day turn around between deciding on what to change and merging the change into beta.

  • @PeterKasting
    @PeterKasting 9 лет назад +132

    Hey Tom, as the guy who fixed this bug in Chromium -- I'm not really sure why you spent so much time (or, really, any time at all) on null-terminated strings. It implies that the crash has something to do with misinterpreting an embedded null, which, as you said near the end of the video, isn't true. The crash has nothing to do with null-terminated strings.
    Really the problem is simply that canonicalization wasn't idempotent when it was supposed to be. This could cause problems regardless of what value is ultimately encoded by the doubly-escaped string and there are a variety of places in which different bugs appeared as a result. It was too bad that right as you got to the point where I thought you'd explain one of these in more detail, the video ended :(

    • @calcubite9298
      @calcubite9298 9 лет назад +1

      +Peter Kasting Huh?

    • @Tokaisho1
      @Tokaisho1 9 лет назад +1

      +Peter Kasting not fixed

    • @JayNicholasTurner
      @JayNicholasTurner 9 лет назад +8

      +Peter Kasting "as the guy who fixed this bug in Chromium"
      Didn't fix it that well, it's still broken.

    • @PeterKasting
      @PeterKasting 9 лет назад +41

      Diddleshot ***** Fix went in on trunk three days ago. Your build not being fixed is due to how we roll out fixes, not due to not actually fixing the bug in the source code. We don't just instantly push trunk changes to everyone in the world.

    • @tripplehelix
      @tripplehelix 9 лет назад +2

      +Peter Kasting Thank you for fixing this issue so promptly Peter, your work is incredible!

  • @skii_two
    @skii_two 3 года назад +387

    "The Link That Can Crash Chrome"
    Me on Firefox : *you fool*

    • @skii_two
      @skii_two 3 года назад +1

      @Doggo rip

    • @yuyukosfaithfulservant
      @yuyukosfaithfulservant 3 года назад +2

      im on ms edge rn uwu

    • @Jessay
      @Jessay 3 года назад +16

      @@yuyukosfaithfulservant that runs on chromium so theoretically if chrome didn't patch this it would work on edge too

    • @freeze1625
      @freeze1625 3 года назад +2

      Me who using Internet Explorer: i am 4 parallel universes ahead of you

    • @outmail_goocrosoft_com1862
      @outmail_goocrosoft_com1862 3 года назад +1

      @Videoms Brave too is chromium based...

  • @nk-cn9sv
    @nk-cn9sv Год назад +2

    7 years ago baby letsgoo

  • @circleubuntu
    @circleubuntu 4 года назад +285

    "If you're watching this off in the future, its probably fixed"
    oh no

    • @circleubuntu
      @circleubuntu 3 года назад +1

      @amirKing0 dude all comments dont have to be funny

    • @circleubuntu
      @circleubuntu 3 года назад +1

      @amirKing0 there's another comment that has like 2k likes that is the same format as this

    • @Withenroe
      @Withenroe 3 года назад +2

      pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop

    • @sourabhjambale13
      @sourabhjambale13 3 года назад

      "....Anyway, last week..."

  • @barmetler
    @barmetler 5 лет назад +657

    I tried this, and now it converts "%%30%30" into "%2500"

    • @chitranagpal5610
      @chitranagpal5610 4 года назад +8

      Yes same happened with me

    • @upseguest
      @upseguest 4 года назад +2

      Same thing for me

    • @hydraxic
      @hydraxic 4 года назад

      same

    • @Ewumm
      @Ewumm 4 года назад +16

      well this is five years old, after all

    • @Ewumm
      @Ewumm 4 года назад +4

      @John Doe the video, dude.

  • @Sporkinator
    @Sporkinator 8 лет назад +465

    I'm in the future and this link doesn't crash chrome anymore, which I guess is a good thing. I still wanted to see chrome crash though. :P

    • @binarycat1237
      @binarycat1237 8 лет назад +39

      chrome://inducebrowsercrashforrealz or something like that.

    • @MythicalPhoebe
      @MythicalPhoebe 8 лет назад +3

      boy do you even know what you just said?

    • @dise3-operatingsystems615
      @dise3-operatingsystems615 8 лет назад

      Steven Tarsitano Yes.

    • @ZubAirT
      @ZubAirT 8 лет назад +2

      +binary cat , I did not expect that to be true. thank you for that. haha

    • @jujuyeh
      @jujuyeh 7 лет назад +2

      Wow, thanks, my Chromebook just crashed and it restarted :D

  • @_DreamzGaming
    @_DreamzGaming Год назад +5

    RUclips recommended me this 7½ Years later 😂

  • @yasbae4165
    @yasbae4165 8 лет назад +704

    Why these old videos all of a sudden becomes viral????!!!!!

    • @psykiit
      @psykiit 8 лет назад +53

      published 1 year ago. Still strange to get it in trending, YT algorithms are weird.

    • @Ben-lo2sh
      @Ben-lo2sh 8 лет назад +1

      ikr

    • @gogogalian
      @gogogalian 7 лет назад +26

      RUclips wants people to watch more videos so they started promoting ANY videos that had a lot of click-potential.

    • @EmeraldDuo
      @EmeraldDuo 7 лет назад +6

      Well, it went viral a long time ago, I remember watching this video in 2015. It's just weird that youtube keeps recommending it to people.

    • @mazirian9261
      @mazirian9261 5 лет назад +1

      It's happened again.

  • @thomasmerry3207
    @thomasmerry3207 8 лет назад +491

    The jokes on you I use firefox

    • @unactivated8584
      @unactivated8584 8 лет назад

      😂😂😂

    • @dankmemes7037
      @dankmemes7037 8 лет назад +40

      Jokes on you I use internet explorer happy New Years 1

    • @CanyonF
      @CanyonF 8 лет назад +35

      jokes on you, you use firefox

    • @amberb9701
      @amberb9701 8 лет назад +42

      +Canyon F Jokes on you, Chrome eats up a lot of RAM and Firefox has way more plugins.

    • @CanyonF
      @CanyonF 8 лет назад +22

      John F jokes on you, a rock uses even less RAM but that doesn't make it better lmao

  • @umcuber3399
    @umcuber3399 4 года назад +366

    WHY IS THIS RECOMMENDED 5 YEARS LATER

    • @Iceyyyyylol
      @Iceyyyyylol 4 года назад +2

      ikr

    • @Brahvim
      @Brahvim 4 года назад +8

      ...It is 2020 right now and it says "4 years ago"
      HOW IS IT SAYING 5 ON YOUR END!?!? xD?

    • @cathacker13
      @cathacker13 4 года назад +8

      @@Brahvim 2020 - 2015 = 5
      The difference between 2020 and 2015 is 5 years. They probably didn't take into account the rest of the date(because nobody does)

    • @NeverPearl
      @NeverPearl 4 года назад +3

      R u in the future

    • @umcuber3399
      @umcuber3399 4 года назад

      I meant to say 4

  • @jstarstudios7110
    @jstarstudios7110 2 года назад +7

    I am indeed watching this off in the future

  • @fakieCS
    @fakieCS 2 года назад +58

    "If you're watching this in the future, it's probably fixed"
    Me 5 seconds before:
    copy & paste the link in a new tab just to realise it is fixed

    • @mmsp4292
      @mmsp4292 2 года назад

      Is that work?

    • @mmsp4292
      @mmsp4292 2 года назад +2

      Mine didn't crash :(

    • @revulseplays3061
      @revulseplays3061 2 года назад +2

      i was truely dissapointed to this reality

    • @fakieCS
      @fakieCS 2 года назад

      @@revulseplays3061 same :(

    • @abstractify4203
      @abstractify4203 2 года назад

      I did the exact same thing LMFAOO

  • @elbartos
    @elbartos 8 лет назад +779

    why am I seeing this 1 year later -_-

  • @TheDutchMagicTeacher
    @TheDutchMagicTeacher 9 лет назад +237

    it doesn't work for me did they fix it that quickly?

    • @TomScottGo
      @TomScottGo  9 лет назад +139

      Quite possibly! Google roll out updates to Chrome quickly and silently, so it'll depend when yours chose to auto update and which "branch" it's on.

    • @toast_recon
      @toast_recon 9 лет назад +8

      +Tom Scott I just selected it in the title text and started dragging it and it crashed. Try it out!

    • @trejkaz
      @trejkaz 9 лет назад +6

      +TheDutchMagicTeacher I found the same thing and then I found that on Windows, it did crash, whereas on OSX, it only crashed the one tab.

    • @TheDutchMagicTeacher
      @TheDutchMagicTeacher 9 лет назад

      +Tom Scott if you select the tekst and try to drag it it does still crash on my end

    • @HeyLook287
      @HeyLook287 9 лет назад

      +TheDutchMagicTeacher Do you have Canary or the Beta? I have stable version and mine crashed.

  • @Leon.31_z
    @Leon.31_z Год назад +4

    Meanwhile RUclips throwing this video in my recommended 7 years later lmao

  • @Althalus2010
    @Althalus2010 4 года назад +84

    Tom: if you're watching this off in the future
    Me: watches nearly 5 years after upload.

    • @CurvyKirby2.-
      @CurvyKirby2.- 4 года назад

      Bro how you watching this 5 years later when it's only been 4

    • @Althalus2010
      @Althalus2010 4 года назад +2

      @@CurvyKirby2.- I said nearly.

    • @danielawesome36
      @danielawesome36 4 года назад

      In two days from now, it's gonna be Seotember 23, the same day this video was originally uploaded.
      *puts on glasses*

    • @theweirdwolf1877
      @theweirdwolf1877 3 года назад +2

      @Isaac Thompson What sort of potato are you using for a computer?

  • @noiamhippyman
    @noiamhippyman 8 лет назад +899

    Damn dude, you seriously know your stuff.

    • @noiamhippyman
      @noiamhippyman 8 лет назад +44

      The ending cracked me up too.

    • @vuxluongw
      @vuxluongw 7 лет назад +20

      jesus christ that ending gave me nightmares

    • @nanoic2964
      @nanoic2964 7 лет назад +8

      He's on the Computerphile channel.

    • @guy_th18
      @guy_th18 7 лет назад +38

      It's a pretty basic concept

    • @zodus3041
      @zodus3041 4 года назад

      Your comment is at 920 and the time (for me) is 9:20
      *I'm scared*

  • @IllidanS4
    @IllidanS4 6 лет назад +454

    The real question is - why does Chrome for God's sake decode the URL twice?

    • @jessehall8168
      @jessehall8168 5 лет назад +48

      Probably a function that starts with a check for encoding, decodes it, then starts all over again with decoded string.

    • @Stratelier
      @Stratelier 5 лет назад +85

      Wasn't it already explained? Intuitively, the URL should only be ever be decoded once, but when you have multiple functions calling each other and each one has the potential to accept raw (undecoded) text strings, suddenly every function is doing its own decoding and this string in question essentially suffers recursively iterated decoding (I recognized the problem the moment I identified %30 is the code for a numeric zero).

    • @Guinea.Pig-Gaming
      @Guinea.Pig-Gaming 4 года назад +16

      a/%%30%30
      a/%00 - decoded once
      a/[NULL] - decoded twice
      This happens probably to check if there are any more characters to decode.

    • @fatandugly8112
      @fatandugly8112 4 года назад +2

      @@Guinea.Pig-Gaming that doesn't answer the OP's question. It was already answered in previous response.

    • @jsrodman
      @jsrodman 4 года назад +10

      @@Stratelier Sure, but that's just bad design. You should have a clear boundary between encoded and unencoded URLs which can be done by design or by typing systems or by other methods. It's a bad design when code doesn't know whether a URL it gets is encoded or not, and it leads to bugs like this.

  • @BluntedBay
    @BluntedBay Год назад +5

    Me: *sees this video* "Can't wait to try this out"
    Also me: *sees that it was posted 7 years ago*

  • @tatacraft791
    @tatacraft791 3 года назад +47

    pov: its 2021 and you stil tried it even tho tom seid "if you are watching this in the near future, its probably already fixed"

    • @LeBronJames-uz6mt
      @LeBronJames-uz6mt 2 года назад +2

      POV: no

    • @flumfabliau
      @flumfabliau 2 года назад +1

      @@LeBronJames-uz6mt POV: POV: no

    • @kizernis
      @kizernis 2 года назад

      I've tried it before starting the video 😁

    • @strangerluvrr
      @strangerluvrr 2 года назад +1

      @@flumfabliau POV: POV: POV: no

  • @astro_faze6070
    @astro_faze6070 3 года назад +218

    Thumbnail: Exists
    Literally Anyone: *Cool, let's test out this link*

    • @climclim0375
      @climclim0375 3 года назад

      Did it work?

    • @SabirTheHuman
      @SabirTheHuman 3 года назад +3

      @@climclim0375 no, it was patched...

    • @abi-kv9zz
      @abi-kv9zz 3 года назад +25

      @@climclim0375 worked for me, crashed my whole laptop because it's a chromebook

    • @toybonniesfm
      @toybonniesfm 3 года назад +4

      @@abi-kv9zz was gonna make a joke about how a book can crash but idk how

    • @toybonniesfm
      @toybonniesfm 3 года назад

      @@happitiger huh

  • @entercringename5983
    @entercringename5983 4 года назад +8

    Tom: links that can crash chrome
    Me: I don’t need any links, my chrome crashes by it self

  • @pendulum3713
    @pendulum3713 2 года назад +4

    Why did this go back into the algorithm 7 years later?

    • @brazimouz
      @brazimouz 2 года назад

      why not (๑・̑◡・̑๑)

  • @UrSoMeanBoss
    @UrSoMeanBoss 9 лет назад +85

    as a low-level C/asm programmer, It's nice to see someone explain part of the fundamentals to people who otherwise wouldn't know. Thanks for including the bit about strings :D

    • @UrSoMeanBoss
      @UrSoMeanBoss 9 лет назад +3

      ***** Well it's rare that a situation would come up that requires a full function or program to have to be written in ASM for best performance... Normally it's just using GCC inline assembly to augment the efficiency of a C function. Here's an example for a math function that rounds up to the next power of 2:
      //--------------------------
      #include
      static inline uint32_t example(uint32_t const Value)
      {
      uint32_t ResultMask;
      __asm__("bsrl %0, %1
      \t"
      : "=g"(ResultMask)
      : "g" (Value)
      : "1");
      register uint32_t const TrueValue = 1

    • @UrSoMeanBoss
      @UrSoMeanBoss 9 лет назад +1

      ***** My only experience is with C, and inline ASM isn't in the standard. This is a GCC specific feature. Other language compilers may also have a similar feature, but to my understanding; the more high-level, the more unlikely.

    • @Ryndae-l
      @Ryndae-l 9 лет назад +1

      +UrSoMeanBoss It is in the standard, as a common extension (§J.5.10 on the draft I'm reading)

    • @dennisvoliver
      @dennisvoliver 9 лет назад

      +UrSoMeanBoss I'm making CPU emulators right now, it's nice how low-level concepts are still relevant to high-level architectures like this one :)

    • @UrSoMeanBoss
      @UrSoMeanBoss 9 лет назад

      +Dennis Oliver my group loves to know people who do awesome. And that sounds pretty awesome. Are you doing that as a job or a hobby?

  • @MZZenyl
    @MZZenyl 9 лет назад +19

    I always enjoy these videos - one of the most interesting things about computers is, in my opinion, their limitations and what happens when an error occurs and it's not handled properly.

  • @thepoopenator7341
    @thepoopenator7341 8 лет назад +52

    I like the personification. Ah, the string's over. Brilliant!

  • @trainboy5829
    @trainboy5829 2 года назад +4

    hello, im from 7 years from the future, its fixed

  • @RDSk0
    @RDSk0 9 лет назад +306

    Hah! My Chrome didn't crash! It just opened about:blank!
    ALL GLORY SLOW-WORKING COMPUTERS

    • @AppleAssassin
      @AppleAssassin 9 лет назад +6

      +KinRedysko Mine didn't crash either and I have a fast computer.

    • @jguth6
      @jguth6 9 лет назад +7

      +AppleAssassin this one does
      a.com/%%30%30
      its ok without the .com for me but adding .com makes it crash

    • @Zebra_M
      @Zebra_M 9 лет назад +13

      +KinRedysko All glory updated version of chrome?

    • @batsm
      @batsm 9 лет назад

      +jguth6 If you add www. to it it makes it crash if you mouse over it on some websites
      Like this www.a.com/%%30%30

    • @aviinl1
      @aviinl1 9 лет назад +4

      +KinRedysko open notepad, type in a/%%30%30 then save it as bla.html, open in chrome and voiala

  • @Russeren
    @Russeren 4 года назад +25

    the fact this was showen 5 years later. I would love to try this.

  • @nekomasteryoutube3232
    @nekomasteryoutube3232 8 лет назад +135

    Tested this Again in September 2016, it doesnt work now :/ Just tells you that you can't reach "a's" server.

  • @pink_sky_morning4842
    @pink_sky_morning4842 Год назад +2

    IM BEING RECOMMENDED THIS 7 YEARS LATER. _WHAT._

  • @hiitsme5524
    @hiitsme5524 2 года назад +215

    "If you're watching this in the future. it's probably fixed"
    Me, who got this on recommendations 6 years after this was uploaded and wants to try it: *My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined*

  • @theassassin8317
    @theassassin8317 3 года назад +80

    Me when my chrome doesnt crash after pasting this is in:
    My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined :(

  • @amandalim3330
    @amandalim3330 5 лет назад +15

    So RUclips recommends this to me 4 years later... And obviously it's been fixed by now. Kind of disappointed that we didn't even get to see Chrome crash - was still interesting to see how the URL worked though

  • @dumbpersonalert9852
    @dumbpersonalert9852 2 года назад +3

    Thanks RUclips for recommending this years later. Really appreciate it

  • @jonathanchen1834
    @jonathanchen1834 2 года назад +30

    youtube six years later: hmmmm yes this will go well in the reccomended.

  • @toasty6633
    @toasty6633 4 года назад +128

    Fun Fact: The word “short” is longer then the word “long”

    • @reesetube
      @reesetube 4 года назад +1

      only 1 letter

    • @tuamatrem8304
      @tuamatrem8304 4 года назад +19

      you can also make it shorter by adding 2 letters

    • @suhayb0s
      @suhayb0s 4 года назад +1

      That made my day

    • @mfsmgame
      @mfsmgame 4 года назад

      More an episode of things that no make any sense but is cool

    • @xxhblxx
      @xxhblxx 3 года назад

      It is

  • @JadenAmistad
    @JadenAmistad 4 года назад +58

    RUclips 4 years later: It’s safe now.

  • @joshua7551
    @joshua7551 2 года назад +4

    I love how it seems that the fix for this error is to inject "25" into the url in order to prevent it from resolving the null character.

  • @anurags3363
    @anurags3363 4 года назад +101

    People : RUclips recommending after 1 yrs or 2yrs
    Me : oh please it's August 2020 now

    • @Subpar1224
      @Subpar1224 4 года назад +3

      Oh please its September 2020 now

    • @someone.1184
      @someone.1184 4 года назад +1

      Search "markiplier old videos" they got recommened like crazy and it is also 2013

    • @BaboMthethwa
      @BaboMthethwa 3 года назад +2

      frick august was 4 months ago

    • @rithuuuuuuuuuu
      @rithuuuuuuuuuu 3 года назад +3

      Oh please its November 2020 now

    • @uncleron2159
      @uncleron2159 3 года назад

      @@rithuuuuuuuuuu yes

  • @rowanmurtagh2556
    @rowanmurtagh2556 3 года назад +110

    Me 5 years later:
    Tom: **casually waves hands** it'll probably be fixed

  • @soc_psyc
    @soc_psyc 3 года назад +12

    You have such a good way of explaining complicated topics. Love your videos!

  • @WubbaDubba5361
    @WubbaDubba5361 Год назад +3

    I don't think it's been fixed yet. every time I try, it freezes before I can finish typing the URL
    nvm that's normal I guess

  • @UntrainableWizard
    @UntrainableWizard 8 лет назад +15

    Quite interesting, I never knew this had actually happened. But (as a programmer) it's fun to learn about this stuff, to see what I can do to stop me from making these mistakes in the future.
    Thank you for the videos.

  • @juliusfetingis3083
    @juliusfetingis3083 4 года назад +29

    A link that can crash google chrome
    me: *CLICKS IMMIDEADLY*

  • @CuboydMC
    @CuboydMC 4 года назад +33

    Me: Enters a/%%30%30 into browser
    Chrome: Guess I'll die.

    • @TheElvisnator
      @TheElvisnator 4 года назад +2

      (Also) Chrome: Ight imma head out*

  • @williamkulpa196
    @williamkulpa196 2 года назад +4

    I like how this video is 6 years old but people are still commenting on it

  • @rendeer8822
    @rendeer8822 4 года назад +17

    4:47, nothing compares to, a quiet evening alone...

    • @Lupdida1
      @Lupdida1 4 года назад +1

      underrated comment

  • @Karrrsten
    @Karrrsten 3 года назад +11

    Tom Scott: This Link Can Crash Chrome!
    Me: Yee! I'll try that
    Me: try it
    Me: realise I use Firefox

  • @tweets009
    @tweets009 5 лет назад +77

    4 years ago
    hm probably fixed by now, what a shame i wanted to try it, thanks youtube recommendations

  • @BadmanYT-1254
    @BadmanYT-1254 8 месяцев назад +4

    Now it just says "This site can’t be reached, a’s server IP address could not be found."

    • @BadmanYT-1254
      @BadmanYT-1254 8 месяцев назад

      and the url stays as "a/%00"

  • @xMaverickFPS
    @xMaverickFPS 8 лет назад +123

    now it just changes to a/%2500

    • @NoriMori1992
      @NoriMori1992 8 лет назад +9

      [looks up %25 on the list] Oh, you son of a… XD

    • @deathab0ve
      @deathab0ve 8 лет назад +1

      Edge was fine with it.

    • @MegaZsolti
      @MegaZsolti 8 лет назад +1

      Would a/%25%30%30
      crash Chrome?

    • @amateurunpacking8889
      @amateurunpacking8889 8 лет назад +4

      +Training Weapon Videos they fixed it

    • @mortvald
      @mortvald 8 лет назад +2

      It used to, they implemented a test algorithm since then.

  • @JamesEtc3417
    @JamesEtc3417 5 лет назад +129

    Chrome now changes the link to “a/%2500%”

    • @PDCMYTC
      @PDCMYTC 4 года назад +2

      Because it multiplies 30 by 30

    • @Guessyouwillneverknow705
      @Guessyouwillneverknow705 4 года назад +6

      Please DONT CHECK My RUclips Channel 30 * 30 = 900...

    • @Max_Power_
      @Max_Power_ 4 года назад +18

      @@Guessyouwillneverknow705 And then you do (900*30-90*30+30*3*9-90-30/3-30/3)/(30/3) = 2500

    • @Guessyouwillneverknow705
      @Guessyouwillneverknow705 4 года назад +8

      Max Power wtf

    • @That_One_Guy...
      @That_One_Guy... 4 года назад +1

      @@Guessyouwillneverknow705 30 x 30 = 196

  • @sidkemp4672
    @sidkemp4672 4 года назад +9

    Back in 1989, I used a trick like this in DOS to hide directories. One could type any ASCII character by entering the ascii string on the numeric keypad while holding down some special key combo like CTRL+SHIFT. So I could type the null character and it showed up as if it were a space. But it was a different character, a null.
    I created a folder named [null] in the root directory and hid the operating system and programs there. On a standalone DOS machine with a single hard drive and no security sytem, students could not access, copy, alter, or delete, or even find, any folder (directory) I didn't want them to find.
    Null is a cool concept and a tricky tool.

  • @SDStudiosAnimations
    @SDStudiosAnimations 3 года назад +386

    Me: *types in a/%%30%30*
    Chrome: "you mispelled "a" there."

  • @noahlehman-borer4467
    @noahlehman-borer4467 2 года назад +5

    I always watch Tom Scott videos assuming it will be fun knowledge that I'll never use. I actually used this at work today! Thanks Tom!