[montag813]

"If the topic of a page is crafted to be long enough, it will crash the browser each time it is started after going to such a page," according to the Internet Storm Center posting. "Once this happens, Firefox will be unable to be started until you erase the history.dat file manually."

That's all? Big freakin deal.

[zeugma]

That's all? Big freakin deal.

I agree. Initial reports of this problem were greatly exaggerated. It doesn't actually lock up your computer or browser, or cause it to crash. It just causes it to appear to take a long time to respond because it's processing a multi-megabyte tag.