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We’ve heard of software bugs causing strange problems before, but never something like two million NULL characters causing a web browser to simply hang up and slam the CPU like this.
Opera Core Quality Assurance part-timer Hallvord R.M. Steen took to his Miscoded blog Monday with news that a strange bug in Microsoft SkyDrive was wreaking havoc on his favorite web browser, hanging it up completely and forcing the app to consume 100 percent of his CPU.
After ruling out some rogue JavaScript or plugin, further detective work turned up an issue with Microsoft SkyDrive which “sends a local of unexpected NULL characters” right in the middle of the source code — two million of them!
Apparently, browsers like Firefox are able to ward off the unexpected NULL characters better than Opera, which Steen is hoping to see fixed soon.
“Meanwhile, here’s another strange but great example of how testing in multiple browsers can make you uncover mistakes you never expected to make,” the Norwegian part-timer concludes.
No word on whether this bug affects the Mac version or only Windows.
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