# Copyright Reference in Code Crashes Browser

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-reference-in-code-crashes-browser/329389>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [August 21, 2012, 10:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-reference-in-code-crashes-browser/329389 "2012-08-21T22:47:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pherank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@Pherank](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Pherank)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 10:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/copyright-reference-in-code-crashes-browser/329389/1 "2012-08-21T22:47:12Z")

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I have a simple HTML page that posted just fine a year ago. But now it crashes browsers, and it took me some time to finely isolate the particular line of code that was the problem: it is the copyright reference in one tag. There’s another copyright reference below it, but visibility is turned off for that div so that keeps it from being a problem. Running the pages locally in the browser is NOT a problem. Running them on a server (and I’ve tried two different ones) creates the browser crashing.

\<p class=“copyright”\>Any text works here as long as I don’t start with “Copyright”, “©”, or “©”\</p\>

[http://burntscarlet.com/\_test/collection/test\_ok.html](http://burntscarlet.com/_test/collection/test_ok.html)

This code produces a crash in Firefox or IE 8 -

\<p class=“copyright”\>© 2011 Ascent\</p\>

[http://burntscarlet.com/\_test/collection/test\_crash\_ascii.html](http://burntscarlet.com/_test/collection/test_crash_ascii.html)

This code produces a crash in Firefox or IE 8 -

\<p class=“copyright”\>Copyright 2011 Ascent\</p\>

[http://burntscarlet.com/\_test/collection/test\_crash\_text.html](http://burntscarlet.com/_test/collection/test_crash_text.html)

Anyone ever seen anything like this before?

Zip of the files:  
[http://burntscarlet.com/\_test/collection/BrowserCrashTest.zip](http://burntscarlet.com/_test/collection/BrowserCrashTest.zip)