For testing purposes, I need a quick and easy way to crash my tab/browser. I'm stress testing my website, and these sites are invaluable for Google Chrome.
These sites can be found at chrome://about. Another site (not listed on chrome://about is chrome://inducebrowsercrashforrealz- it will crash the top-level process for Chrome, including all tabs in all browser windows and all opened apps). Originally, I was trying to see what data was preserved in case of a crash. For example, the textarea in our form remained filled out upon restarting.
However, these URL's are only valuable if I manually type the URL into the browser. Using this question (and many others I don't have the links to), I confirmed what I suspected- you can't
- redirect to
chrome://pages - link to
chrome://pages - in any other way request info from
chrome://pages (ie. iframe)
This poses a problem- I want to cause the browser to crash (chrome://inducebrowsercrashforrealz) when the user reaches a specific part of the form. Is there any script which can cause the browser to crash?
I've tried while loops, but even when they're exponential, they take a while to kill the page, and never affect the browser. I'd like the crash to be either instantaneous, or eat up enough memory for the browser to freeze.