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Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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Post by jaywalk »

I had a bunch of open tabs in Safari, and typing "old" (space) not only crashed Safari but got rid of almost all of the open tabs. It was all stuff I needed to refer back to, and yeah that's not a great way to manage stuff like that. Of course bookmarks would be the right way. But now it's gone.

So be careful.

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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Post by yamtaddle »

bartread wrote: post #42
yamtaddle wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1) It's a tweet, not a bug report. 2) The very first thing any actual engineer on Apple's payroll ought to try to reproduce it will work (most recent official iOS, "happy path" settings that have Safari Suggestions turned on)

1) Yes, people use tweets to report bugs all the time. The problem with nitpicking is that anyone can pick your nits back, which leads me to... 2) Yes, they will, but that won't necessarily repro the bug without knowing which type of device it's running on, so at the very least they might need to check several different devices, and even then other factors can come into play that go beyond basic device configuration.…

> 1) Yes, people use tweets to report bugs all the time. The problem with nitpicking is that anyone can pick your nits back, which leads me to...

People might. This one didn't even @ Apple. Jesus, HN (a sentiment the Tweet author has also expressed by now on the tweet thread, as they're apparently reading this and seeing y'all acting like this in public)

> 2) Yes, they will, but that won't necessarily repro the bug without knowing which type of device it's running on, so at the very least they might need to check several different devices, and even then other factors can come into play that go beyond basic device configuration.

Twitter figured this out in like 30 minutes. It's Safari Suggestions on any recent iOS. This may not be the platonic ideal of a bug report but it's not a bug report and also it happens, by chance, to be entirely fine even if it were, because this is super-easy to figure out.

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