Apple iPhone Safari Crasher (iPhone 4 & 4S, iOS 5.0.1)

It appears to crash Google Chrome on Windows 7 as well, which makes me think that it's a problem with WebKit.<p>Firefox 3.6.3 was a little iffy with it and stopped responding several times, but did eventually pull through.<p>IE 9 did not appear to be adversely affected.

Last time I checked, the easiest way to crash Safari was to copy the latest failing crash tests from the WebKit source repository.

Interesting, but it's really not that hard to crash Safari in iOS. We've had to redesign our web interfaces a couple of times to avoid endemic crashing.<p>In general, lots of images + lots of javascript + screen rotation = crash.

To be fair, it crashed my Google Chrome 15.0.874.120 on a MacBook Pro. So it's not Apple iOS device specific. It's probably WebKit browser specific or even far more out reaching.

Crashes Chrome, Firefox and WebKit nightly on Lion. I bet it will crash IE also.<p>Conclusion: most, if not all, browsers are not prepared to handle a 100 MB HTML document. If all the file does is crash the browser, who cares? If it can be exploited, then we should be worried.<p>Is the OP trying to be sensationalist or did he/she simply not test on other browsers?

It crashed for me on Google Chrome for Windows too. Ran it through WinDbg and looks like it is just an out of memory error causing an breakpoint.

What were you expecting it to do? It's a mobile device and you are downloading 100 MB of inline data into RAM. Doesn't seem like much of a problem to me unless you are implying that there is an exploit potential.

I'm sure some while(1) JavaScrip would be a lot easier...

This doesn't seem to crash in IE10, but I can't right-click on the page to view source, so perhaps the child process is frozen or otherwise isolated from causing harm.

Firefox Nightly on Linux lags, but it works.