diff --git a/src/traversing.js b/src/traversing.js
index b36ce3db8e..929547c11d 100644
--- a/src/traversing.js
+++ b/src/traversing.js
@@ -204,7 +204,11 @@ jQuery.each({
 }, function( name, fn ) {
 	jQuery.fn[ name ] = function( until, selector ) {
 		var ret = jQuery.map( this, fn, until ),
-        args = slice.call(arguments);
+                // The variable 'args' was introduced in
+                // https://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/52a0238
+                // to work around a bug in Chrome 10 (Dev) and should be removed when the bug is fixed.
+                // http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=1050
+                    args = slice.call(arguments);
 
 		if ( !runtil.test( name ) ) {
 			selector = until;