04.02.2013 03:21 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Obscure OS X Mountain Lion bug makes many apps crash

TUAW reader Don McC pointed us to this Next Web write-up about an obscure Mountain Lion crash. If you type File: followed by /// in many apps, they will crash. There are 8 characters in total and the F must be capitalized. I tested this and managed to crash a bunch of apps. Echofon, QuickTime, Safari, and Notes all fell before the 8-character text, although Firefox did not . Most amusingly, when I attempted to open the crash logs in TextEdit, the logs killed the app! So what's going on? Here's what my system log reports: Feb 2 22:18:37 Esopus-Spitzenburg.local TextEdit[8417]: assertion on /Sou

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