http://tidbits.com/ The Next Web’s Emil Protalinski explains the amusingly awful bug in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion that causes most Mac apps to crash when you type the string file:/// (you have to capitalize one of the letters in the word “file,” which we didn’t to avoid inadvertent crashes). The bug turns out to be in Apple’s Data Detectors code, and affects only apps that use NSTextFields. So the Finder, Safari, Messages, and TextEdit all crash, as does the Mac’s error reporter, but BBEdit and Firefox do not. en-us Copyright 2013 TidBITS Publishing Inc. Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 EST Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 EST editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) http://tidbits.com/images/tb_logo_152x55.png http://tidbits.com/ 55 152 TidBITS badge http://db.tidbits.com/article/13540?rss#comments_17545 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:19:33 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13540#comments_17545 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13540?rss#comments_17525 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:52:13 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13540#comments_17525
[Edit: I tried it before I read the linked article. I see that they already pointed out the crash reporter crash. I was just so excited to try it though!]]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13540?rss#comments_17524 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:33:25 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13540#comments_17524 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13540?rss#comments_17522 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:27:58 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13540#comments_17522