NETSCAPE BOMBS

One of Netscape 2.0 main features is JavaScript. An scripting language that is included inside a HTML document. It allows the HTML publisher to alter the way the Netscape client behaves to certain user or system events. This allows one's web page to become more user interactive. Only drawback is that it's a Netscape extension, so not every browser supports it.


Playing with these bombs WILL render your Netscape client useless.
You have been forwarned!

Exploding Windows Bomb continously opens windows, over and over and over again. Sucking up memory resources. If you are running Windows'95 check out the nice scrollbar on the taskbar!

This one continously prompts the user that their session has been taken hostage! Rendering the Netscape client useless to the user. Although under Windows'95 the user can perform the 3 finger salute to kill the process. By doing this it will kill all Netscape's threads regardless if you are killing a child browser or not!

The Reload Bomb forces the user to stay at the current page, by refreshing the page the smallest interval possible. Users will not be able to stop the reloading process by clicking Stop or jumping to another page.

The While Loop Lock Bomb is nothing more than a while loop that does not do anything but loop! It still effectively renders Netscape clients useless. One thing is interesting about this bomb, is that on the local side Netscape does not interfere asking you if you wish to abort. However on the client/server side, it jumps in asking you "Lengthy JavaScript still running. Continue?". This was tested with the beta version of Netscape Gold for Windows'95.

The Eat Memory In Time is a really interesting one! It slowly consumes as much memory as it can over time. Watch the status bar to see how much memory is being consumed! It has been known to do various things such as crashing machines, increased swap file size, affecting other programs, eating cpu time and of course making your machine perform like a c64..

The Form Action Bomb just plains crashes Windows'95 Netscape 2.0 clients. If you are running something else other than Windows'95 and it crashes for you please let me know!