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  • Navigating to any URL with `httpss` protocol crashes the entire browser (in some circumstances persistently)

  • BugsDesktopDone
  • Clean browser, clean profile, no extensions ever, etc.
  • Accidentally navigate to any URL with httpss protocol
  • Browser crashes
  • If it was in a saved window, a situation where the profile will always crash on open is possible

Some sort of error screen instead would be nice?

0.99.126.4-beta

Ventura (13)

    Reproduced the typo and can see it happening for any URL on version 0.99.126.4.1-beta (WebKit 618.1.2), Sonoma 14.2.1 (23C71)!

    Try httpss://google.com!

      May I add, use a separate profile if you try.

      I got that profile completely busted after that incident (it crashes immediately on open). Luckily it was a barely used profile with only a couple of tabs, losing my main work profile with a 200+ tabs across 12+ windows would have been a disaster to be honest.

      Happy new year and thanks Orion team for ongoing work!

        Got around to reproducing how this bug can completely bust a profile forever.

        There are apparently multiple ways of getting there, and when it actually happened to me it was in a blink of an eye, but here is a slower way to the same outcome if anyone fancies:

        1. Clean profile, no extensions ever, etc.
        2. Create a persistent/saved/named window
        3. Open some legit URL like https://orionfeedback.org
        4. Enter httpss://kagi.com in the address bar and Cmd+Enter it to open in a new background tab
        5. Drag the working orionfeedback.org tab out to create a new window
        6. Close that window to focus the original window with kagi.com

        There; in a second or so the browser will crash and henceforth will never even launch.

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