A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iPhone

Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by andrethegiant on Sunday September 16, 2018 @03:26PM (#18000596)

If you use iCloud for Safari, you can close another device's Safari tab from your Mac. click the iCloud tabs icon on desktop Safari, then click the circle-x to close the offending tab.

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by givinguflac on Sunday September 16, 2018 @06:42PM (#18001666)

This is a great suggestion for those stuck on this crash

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by tannhaeuser on Sunday September 16, 2018 @04:49AM (#17997978)

Seems like on restart Safari wants to revisit previously opened pages and crashes again ad infinitum. Isn't there a way to cold-restart iOS devices or some such (like the magic "Zap NVRAM and repair permissions" procedure back in PowerMac times)?

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by Crontab on Sunday September 16, 2018 @08:14AM (#17998545)

"Seems like on restart Safari wants to revisit previously opened pages"

I've always found that behavior annoying. If I want to revisit the last page, I can find it in history.

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by matkins on Sunday September 16, 2018 @08:35AM (#17998628)

I'm sure you're in the absolute minority. Most people want all apps, including the browser, to stay the way they were when they closed them, even after a reboot

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by sethammons on Sunday September 16, 2018 @09:24AM (#17998792)

I sure as heck want my tabs back. But I'd settle for "restore tabs" as I have to do that a lot in chrome on my MacBook Pro. On my Android, the tabs are just there and I really appreciate it. I have over a dozen tabs open on my phone and two dozen on my laptop.

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by LoSboccacc on Sunday September 16, 2018 @09:45AM (#17998898)

It’s very convenient, but isn’t that scenario better covered by hibernating the os? That covers all app and doesn’t require any app to have special behaviour coded in

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by sethammons on Sunday September 16, 2018 @10:37AM (#17999140)

If I never had to restart, sure. I have to restart my laptop weekly at least. Heck, it locked up twice last week opening Diablo 3 forcing a hard power cycle. My phone gets restarted less often but still gets into odd states where a reboot is needed.

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by LoSboccacc on Sunday September 16, 2018 @03:08PM (#18000481)

tangential, but check out that your power supply is ok, that's the second most common source of random lockups during load (I assume drivers are up to date, that'd be the first)

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by ams6110 on Sunday September 16, 2018 @09:24AM (#17998791)

Me too. I want a blank page when I open my browser. If I reboot a device, I want nothing but base system running when it restarts.

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by signal11 on Sunday September 16, 2018 @10:06AM (#17998993)

But that’s why you need a “safe start mode” where you can start the app with a clean slate. Several Microsoft Office apps do this now. Given iOS’s repeated “crash loop” issues you’d think they’d have learnt by now.

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by 13of40 on Sunday September 16, 2018 @11:04AM (#17999265)

I'm in that minority too, I guess. There's nothing more grating than to explicitly close all tabs, only to be asked whether you want to open them again. For me, tabs are like this useless plaque that slowly accumulates and needs to be blown away every two or three days.

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by reaperducer on Sunday September 16, 2018 @05:55PM (#18001381)

Yep. I know someone who keeps dozens and dozens of tabs open on an iPhone. It's kind of like a bookmark library.

I explained that there is a bookmark feature just for this sort of thing, but when you're used to doing something one way, change can be slow.

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by bdcravens on Sunday September 16, 2018 @10:20AM (#17999055)

That always bothers me. What if a page was (dumbly) in a state that makes a change I don't want?

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by stestagg on Sunday September 16, 2018 @09:10AM (#17998747)

Do you have data for this? I'm also in the absolute minority

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by zuppy on Sunday September 16, 2018 @04:47AM (#17997970)

try a force restart (home + power button for about 10 seconds)

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by megablast on Sunday September 16, 2018 @07:32AM (#17998416)

What is home?

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by tbassetto on Sunday September 16, 2018 @07:46AM (#17998454)

It's the name of the round button at the bottom of the iPhones without Face ID.

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by PatientJ on Sunday September 16, 2018 @07:45AM (#17998451)

I think he meant hold down volume down + power button for 10 seconds.

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by jedmeyers on Sunday September 16, 2018 @09:53AM (#17998935)

Older iPhones with physical home button use that for restart.

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by JustSomeNobody on Sunday September 16, 2018 @12:03PM (#17999560)

Last year’s model.

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by jedmeyers on Sunday September 16, 2018 @03:34PM (#18000645)

Last year’s iPhones 8 use volume down + power for restart because home is not a button, but a sensor and it has to be powered to work.

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by zuppy on Friday September 21, 2018 @02:27AM (#18037565)

there's no iOS 7 device without home button :)

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by travbrack on Sunday September 16, 2018 @05:39AM (#17998112)

No hang on 11.4.1. It came back fine.

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by Karupan on Sunday September 16, 2018 @05:15AM (#17998053)

Able to reboot fine on iOS 12 after the crash. Safari didn’t try to reopen closed windows as well.

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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by josefresco on Sunday September 16, 2018 @07:30AM (#17998411)

DO NOT CLICK THE LINK!

Never imagined I'd read those words at HN. How times have changed. Be sensible people.

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