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These Four Lines Of Code Can Crash Anyone’s Smartphone And Computer

There’s a notorious link being shared on social networking websites that can crash nearly all smartphones — all you have to do is just click on this link.

Known as crashsafari.com(clicking on this will crash your browser), this link crashes your browser by overloading it with thousands of characters in the address bar each second,As a result, the phone memory exhausts and your device crashes.

  Back in September, we encountered a  similar bug in Google Chrome that caused the browser to crash with just 16 characters.

This website link is being spread via apps, social networks, simple URLs, and shortened URLs. It should be noted that this bug isn’t malicious and it doesn’t break anything in your phone.

  How does Crashsafari.com work?

  The website is running a small piece of JavaScript that creates a loop with the help of History API and crashes your device. The History API allows the websites to change the URL of the page without performing page refresh.

  If you are an iPhone user, you should be very careful about any new incoming shortened links as they could forcibly reboot your phones. Notably, these links have already been opened 100,000 times. You are advised to take extra care as it’s being spread on the web via misleading links.
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