Windows Phone Tango can have a catastrophic web browser crash [Video]

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Browsing Bild.de tin be hazardous to Tango'southward health

With Windows Phone Tango rolling out it is mayhap not a surprise that some isolated bugs may be discovered along the way. So far, not too many take cropped upwardly but at that place is one that is interesting though seemingly rare.

Users have found that navigating to the German news site Bild.de on their phone, with "Desktop" enabled can outcome in the browser locking up the device. The site Bild.de does default to a mobile WAP version and there is a Windows Telephone app too but users are complimentary to use their IE9 in desktop mode to view the site "as is".

Nosotros've tested the scenario on our Tango phone (Focus 2) and sure plenty, upon loading the folio the 2nd time it does lock up the device. Since Internet Explorer is a native app, native apps tin can crash the OS whereas third-political party apps should non be able to practise and then.

The theory seems to revolve around the idea that Bild.de is very graphic intensive with a lot of photos being pushed to the browser. Combined with Tango's depression-overhead for 256MB devices and it seems to zap all of the available memory on the telephone (of grade we tin can't rule out javascript errors or something else, either). You lot tin can replicate the crash yourself by following these directions:

Turn "Desktop" mode on in the browser
Navigate to Bild.de, it may load just fine
Navigate to another site then go back to Bild.de
Browser should crash when loading

The resulting crash means you would have to pull the battery (or hold the power button for 10 seconds) to reboot the telephone. Nosotros tried this on a Windows Phone Mango device (HTC Titan) and could non replicate the crash. We also had no issues with a Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.1 meaning this most certainly seems correlated with Windows Phone "Tango".

Is it a dire problems? Certainly non simply it could be used as a browser-exploit by some nefarious people out there, even though that seems remote to united states. All the same, hopefully Microsoft will see this and patch it up for their next OS build.

Update: To make things even more disruptive, it's not all devices. Our Lumia 900 with Tango is okay, merely reports at XDA of the Radar, Omnia 7, Lumia 800 and our Focus 2 do have the crash.

Source: XDA; Thanks DerAusgewanderte, for the tip

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