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Quicky Firefox DoS
A four-line script hangs Firefox indefinitely: a loop to 65536 that appends one character at a time and calls document.write on the whole growing string each pass. The author expected the slow-script prompt and instead had to kill the process after ten minutes. The cost is quadratic rather than linear, as the comment thread works out.
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