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Search Suggestions Causing Apple's Safari Browser To Crash on Many Devices (theverge.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the did-you-mean:-daisy-bell dept.

An anonymous reader writes: According to the Verge (and my wife) Apple Safari browsers are crashing left, right, and center due to Safari's search suggestions feature. "Simply disabling this feature will stop Safari crashing, or using the private mode option in the browser as a temporary workaround. Not everyone is affected, and this could be because some have the search suggestions cached locally or they're still able to reach Apple's servers thanks to a DNS cache."

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  1. Good old BBC by Viol8 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nice to know they always have the most techno literate reporters on speed dial when they need insightful comment on a technology issues like this one with Safari:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech...

    "This would suggest that the problem is caused by a process happening at Apple's data centres rather than a coding error in Safari itself."

    Yes, thats right, the apple data centres are sending special CRASH codes to the browsers, its nothing to do with their being a bug in the browser software, no no no. Fecking idiot whoever wrote this piece.