An interesting bug in OS X Mountain Lion causes almost all Mac apps to crash when typing in 'File:///', according to a Radar report spotted by 9to5Mac.
The crash is thought to be caused by Spell Checker and affects numerous apps including: Safari, TextEdit, Console, Messages, Xcode, TweetBot, Chrome, and others.
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Sotiris Karayannis - February 5, 2013 at 6:37am
Could not reproduce bug. Tried on several applications. Running 10.8.2 on mid-2007 iMac.
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mavrik101 - February 4, 2013 at 3:47am
reproduced this crash as stated in the article.
true, however - so what?
why would this be a problem?
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can berk - February 3, 2013 at 12:07pm
was able to replicate the issue on a late 2012 RMBP. Trying to read the console log for the crash crashes the console application as well. Issue is very big!
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iH85CH001 - February 3, 2013 at 9:18pm
What's "RMBP?"
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SomniusX - February 3, 2013 at 9:19pm
Retina Macbook Pro, oh man..
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John - February 3, 2013 at 9:05am
No issues here. Running mountain lion on a hackintosh
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SomniusX - February 3, 2013 at 9:20pm
I think it's a permissions problem of the "/" folder.. cause i'm on a hack and i ain't got the problem!
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sl33k - February 5, 2013 at 8:02pm
I'm on hackint0sh too. 10.8.2 and it is definitly crashing my safari as well as notes and textedit. If you look at the stack trace you will see that is has something to do with the way the ":" and the "/" are dealt with in the NSSpellChecking Object.
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steve - February 3, 2013 at 7:51am
what so "interesting" very few companies manged to fukup unix so badly, it is pathetic the most expensive laptops that 5year old can crash
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SomniusX - February 3, 2013 at 12:19am
if some one has the problem at hand, give us a dump of the bd or dmesg or activity / console so we could examine!
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aquariusrick - February 3, 2013 at 12:15am
Could not reproduce the crash in Messages or Safari. Early 2011 MBP on 10.8.2. Can we get a Snopes weigh-in on this one?
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SomniusX - February 3, 2013 at 12:04am
haven't had any problem, tested it on any app i could find (after 10 i stopped) and i shot a quicktime screen capture to prove to a friend that i'm not affected..
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iH85CH001 - February 2, 2013 at 11:05pm
Type it into the address bar in Firefox... It shows you all of your files on your computer... :) Haha! kinda scary though...
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iH85CH001 - February 2, 2013 at 11:01pm
Haha!!! It just crashed Spotlight! Lol!!!!! How do people find this stuff?
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geethreeforce - February 2, 2013 at 9:10pm
No issues here. Works as it should.
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Adil - February 2, 2013 at 8:51pm
Didn't crash for me. 12' MBA here.
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Guess what - February 2, 2013 at 3:48pm
Nobody gives a crap.
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ExeciN - February 2, 2013 at 2:35pm
Ok lets all spam Apple with our crash-reports
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bunam - February 2, 2013 at 12:38pm
confirmed but file:/// is ok
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ArieCloud - February 2, 2013 at 12:23pm
on mine, it just open finder to HDD path.. not safari crashed...
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Ash - February 2, 2013 at 10:03am
How often would you actually type that though?
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Sev - February 2, 2013 at 9:33am
yep mine did too on text edit and safari. lol
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Robert - February 2, 2013 at 9:28am
Just tested, it worked haha! Love it!
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ExeciN - February 2, 2013 at 2:37pm
What is your problem?
Are you his student and he gave you a bad grade or something?
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