16 month-old bug continues to crash Flash

February 6th, 2010 Ovathyadado

Filed under: Multimedia Matthew Dempsky has discovered a bug which will crash the Flash player on every supported platform. That might not seem like a huge deal, except that he discovered this bug in September of 2008 and has reported it to Adobe, which hasn’t fixed it yet. 16 months later. If you’d like to test it for yourself, make sure there’s nothing important open in your browser window and head to http://flashcrash.dempsky.org/ . In Safari and Google Chrome, this crashes the plugin but not the browser…


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