DrunkenBlog discovers another image that crashes WebKit

Firefox RUNS JUST FINE. Probably "cos" is just a little confused about alternative browsers. Don't worry ... it's ok to think differently and embrace a browser with extensibility that makes internet use MUCH MORE EFFICIENT. Truly though, you have to TRY it in order to understand this point of view.

Just a thought. :)

Make finder to stop crashing? Try booting from an install CD, then finding where you dragged that image to your desktop or whatever, and pull it to the trash. Make bad thing go way, finder stop crashing.

There is a way to remove it using terminal, if you are geeky enough to get into terminal before the entire OS loads.

The culprit is in the images metadata, which is corrupt. That metadata can be stripped, and the image will then be safe in the buggy browsers.

I wish some responding that have NOT crashed viewing the image in Safari, would post some particulars, the versions of OS and Safari, and perhaps preferences. Most I have seen that have reported no crash, have been using Panther, not Tiger.

uuuhmmm.

So what's to stop a malicious person resizing the image to a few pixels and embedding it in an 'otherwise normal' webpage and cusing crshses of safari all over the place that way?

reallllly nasty.

It's not WebKit crashing. It's the jpeg decoder in the system. If you use a program that rolls its own jpeg decoder, like Gecko browsers or GraphicConverter you wont crash.

That image was on autoblog when I was trying to read it on my mac. I had no clue what was going on, other than camino and my XP based firefox worked fine that day.

10.3.9, safari 1.3.2 (v312.6). No problems here.

Ok, How do I make finder to stop crashing?

I just went in firefox and it crashed my internet... my streaming itunes, adium, firefox and safari couldnt establish a connection. Had to reboot and reset router and cable modem. weird!

What the hell? I am using a Macmini with 10.4.5 and when I visited the site, some crash error came up, but safari didn't shut down and I could scroll down the site and carry on working. I'm writing this now from Safari after viewing the image (but it didn't actually show up!). Wierd!