By Michael Oleaga / m.oleaga@latinospost.com (staff@latinospost.com) | First Posted: Feb 05, 2013 08:56 PM EST
Tags Apple, Mac, Operating System, Mac OS X

A bug appearing on Apple's Mac operating system (OS) has been reported by typing a specific series of characters.

According to reports, typing the following triggers the Mac OS X to crash:

File:///

On OpenRadar's community bug reports, others have agreed in having the same altercation:

Chifuadrian: "I confirm too. It really crashes. Bug !"

nirk.niggler: "Reproducing the steps in Snow Leopard and in Lion do not result in any abnormal behavior ..."

Mark.I.R.Muir: "I tried this in TextEdit in Mountain Lion (10.8.2), crashed like a charm. As an extra bonus, I attempt to file a crash report: typing the description into the Crash Reporter UI caused Crash Reporter to crash and vanish."

luke.clemente: "Try sending somebody a mail or iMessage with it. Crashes both Messages.app and Apple Mail, even when reading.

justin.may: "Truly embarrassing bug. Amazing that it hasn't been found before now - works in 10.8.0"

As example of the crash has been provided, click here to view.

It appears that the bug only exists on the Mountain Lion OS (version 10.8) and includes version 10.8.3.

Latinos Post recommends if Mac users are going to test the specific text to please save any files first.

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