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What is causing Safari crashes?

<edited by host> It would help to know if the specific configuration of a specific iPhone with specific applets affects the crashing.

When freshly reset, my first-generation 8-gig iPhone running the current softerware revision can sometimes (not always) browse web pages with normal concentrations of pop-ups for up to 15-20 minutes before crashing. That period diminishes over the space of a few hours to less than one minute.

The crashes in my case are nearly always characterized by Safari exiting to the home page.

Have my mail, calendars and contacts set to synchrinze with an Exchange server. I have more than one mailbox configured but only one turned on. I have a VPN connector configured but normally turned off. I have about a dozen randam applets.

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Generic, Windows XP Pro

Posted on Oct 22, 2008 10:34 AM

68 replies

jweisen

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12 points

Nov 12, 2008 12:47 PM in response to Complainer

Like everyone, I'm having the same issues with Safari crashing, and my logs show the same thing (90%+ are the OS spanking the process as opposed to the Safari itself crashing).

Even if the rumors are true that 2.2 is 10 days away, Opera Mini is ready to go today. Apple should approve it immediately.

JLauro13

Level 1

0 points

Nov 14, 2008 8:18 PM in response to Complainer

Another crash test dummy here.
I began noticing the errors on a link that displayed a subway map in pdf format. Also, the beta version of myebay.com caused a lot of crashes.
Safari has been a lot better since I try to avoid those sites but it still crashes.
Pretty embarrassing. My girlfriend is going to get a blackberry next week. She is a PA and can't afford to deal with crashes.

Nov 15, 2008 12:15 PM in response to Complainer

Safari crashes are so bad for me now that i have to disable javascript, plug-ins, pop-up blocker, and cookies and i still can't go 10 minutes without a crash.

bibendum

Level 1

15 points

Nov 15, 2008 1:14 PM in response to Tamara

Firefox freezes on me about twice a day. I probably do *5 times* more browsing on Firefox than I do on Safari.

Now, I am new to the iPhone, but in the *10 days* I have had it, Safari has crashed *60 times* (this according to the CrashReporter logs)

So, the story is this: Safari for me is crashing *30 times* more frequently than Firefox.

I understand that Safari is running on a small processor and memory. But when it comes to crashing, let's not pretend there's even an order of magnitude of similarity to the desktop browser.

gtrman

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0 points

Nov 16, 2008 2:50 PM in response to Complainer

Wow and I thought I was the only one with this problem. I seriously cannot go 5 minutes without Safari closing on me. I've had my iPhone 3G for only 3 days now.

bibendum

Level 1

15 points

Nov 16, 2008 8:05 PM in response to gtrman

Yes - it is funny to take a product out of the box (as I did 10 days ago), and wonder "is it just me, or why does it feel like I'm using a browser that's a few beta releases away from being a releasable product?"

🙂 🙂

Nov 17, 2008 9:01 PM in response to Complainer

Im so sick of this. Six crashes just to get here on Apple forum. A seventh crash typing my post. No word from Apple about this bug. Just double tap zoom on any page and Safari will start to crash on 3g iPhone.

bibendum

Level 1

15 points

Nov 17, 2008 9:07 PM in response to SuperSizeIt

Yeah, same for me this morning. Apple's iPhone crashing on their own site.

Don't worry - your crash reports will get sent in to the home office and you'll receive a personal note after someone reviews them, I'm sure. 🙂

What is causing Safari crashes?