title: Purposely Crash Chrome Tab for Chrome Extension
body: <p>Hi I'm creating a Chrome extension to purposely crash a Chrome tab. My methods are not working the way I would like. I am trying:</p>
  
  <pre><code>chrome.tabs.update({url: "about:crash"});
  chrome.tabs.update({url: "chrome://crash"});
  window.location = 'about:crash';
  window.location = 'chrome://crash';
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>None of these work.</p>
  
  <p>However if I replace the URL with something like 'about:blank' or 'http://google.com', it works!</p>
  
  <p>Does Chrome have some sort of security measure in place, if so... any suggestions for a work around?</p>
  
  <p>I would like to avoid overloading the memory with infinite loops if possible.</p>