Defroster/Cracked windshield

Well, sort of.
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/Glass/glass.html

I still think it more likely that a chip or an anomolous stress is the root cause rather than the defroster. There’s no real way for us to know, and it doesn’t really matter, but I’ve never seen glass fracture solely as the result of a defroster.