TIL a funky bug that crashed Google Docs

POSTED ON: Jun 02, 2022

TAGS: bug googledocs

This bug doesn't exist anymore.
But -- On May 5, 2022...

a user crashed Google Docs by typing:

"And. And. And. And. And."

It's case-sensitive. So trying with "and. and. And. and. And." doesn't cause it to crash.

I've only tried in Google Chrome, with documents from three separate Google accounts (personal, G Suite Basic, and work one which might be enterprise). All three experience this same issue.

When filtering the Chrome Dev tools network tab with the text "error", one can see a POST request being made to url starting with https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/jserror, and the payload says it's "Caused by: TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'C')":

via Bleeping Support and Google Support

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