Chicago (IL) - Google is proud of a browser that apparently cannot crash. However, a TG Daily reader found a way how to crash not just tabs, but the entire browser time and time again – with two keystrokes.

We will let this pass through since Chrome is still in beta, but still: Chrome should not crash that easily. One of our readers noticed that Chrome and all of its tabs will crash as soon as the two characters “:%” are entered in the URL bar. Chrome’s message: “Whoa! Google Chrome has crashed. Restart now?”

Yes, please.

The event can be replicated reliably. But before you try it, make sure you aren’t in a critical browsing session as Chrome won’t be able to recover any tabs from that crash.

SecuriTeam also reported a crashing Google Chrome: According to the company, a crash can happen when a user visits a malicious link that includes an undefined handler followed by a 'special' character.

Thanks to Headward for the post.