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Community on the server OpenRadar discovered an interesting bug that is specific to OS X Mountain Lion. If you enter a specific combination of eight characters in the text field, almost every application stops responding or crashes. These are not only third-party apps, but also Apple apps.

That mysterious combination is "Fillet:///" without the quotes. The key is a capital letter at the beginning, and the last character can be replaced with practically any other character, it does not have to be a slash. Specifically, this is a bug related to the data detection feature (which Apple has patented and has been part of the Android lawsuits). This function recognizes URL links, dates, phone numbers and other information and creates hyperlinks from them, which can then be used, for example, to save a number or open a website. If you speak English well, TheNextWeb.com posted a detailed analysis of the error.

The most humorous thing about the whole error is that this way you can drop i Crash Reporter, an error reporting application in OS X. Once you've successfully killed an application like this, it stops working Console, since it still has those eight characters written in its record, it will crash again when started. The console can be repaired by typing this command into Terminal:

sudo sed -i -e 's@File:///@F ile : / / /@g' /var/log/system.log

Since there are likely to be many reports sent due to the publication of this bug, it can be expected that Apple will quickly fix the bug in an upcoming update. Until then, you can have fun crashing apps with one short line of text. However, some apps are immune to the bug because they don't use the feature NSTextField, which is related to data detection.

Source: TheNextWeb.com
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