TheRegister - Security hole that can crash any chromium-based browser

[andyprough]

Could be a Windows thing. I frequently use antiX where SeaMonkey is the default installed browser that you have to use to download a few other things, and its rendering has been poor and speed has been completely unremarkable for me. I've used the latest version and got rid of it as quickly as I could.

[frostknight]

I don't see that happening in this universe so it'll most likely be shrug and yawn and more ads in everyone's pocket.

I think its more likely you will displace firefox usership then become richer than those two men. Especially since at least one of them does a lot of data collection to make his fortune. An evil method of making money ie.
Although sadly an effective one as well.
I could see that happening if mozilla keeps effing up and more developers came to help you.

This doesn't sound impossible.

Although, how bad would mozilla have to eff up?

Idk....

[UCyborg]

Although, if the slowest way is the most correct, it may be the sanest choice, despite suffering the sluggishness. I see Pale Moon handles this attack exceptionally well, both Firefox and Chromium run PC out of RAM and page file starts to grow uncontrollably and the offending tab is difficult or impossible to close.

Edit: The responsiveness of PM is considerably worse with uBO enabled. But, what could the reason be? The exploit doesn't make network requests.

[jobbautista9]

The responsiveness of PM is considerably worse with uBO enabled. But, what could the reason be? The exploit doesn't make network requests.

Could probably be due to uBlock observing DOM mutations?