# Browser crashing when I try to make a link. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 16, 2015, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-crashing-when-i-try-to-make-a-link/720164 "2015-05-16T08:07:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-crashing-when-i-try-to-make-a-link/720164/1 "2015-05-16T08:07:40Z")
I’m using Safari on an iPad, and I was trying to put a link to another site in my reply to a thread, but every time I clicked on the little icon above the reply window my browser crashed. I finally went and looked up how to type in the code to do it, which I didn’t remember because I haven’t had to do that for a while. Has something changed in the way that little icon thing works? ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-crashing-when-i-try-to-make-a-link/720164/2 "2015-05-16T14:29:44Z")
Nothing has changed as far as I know. You’re not the first person to have this problem. As far as I am aware it only affects the Safari browser. ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2015, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-crashing-when-i-try-to-make-a-link/720164/3 "2015-05-17T06:52:52Z")
Okay, thanks. I guess I just have to do things the long way. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2015, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-crashing-when-i-try-to-make-a-link/720164/4 "2015-05-18T14:22:10Z")
I see the same thing with both Safari and Chrome on IOS. Safari just crashes, Chrome freezes and has to be force stopped. Safari on OSX chokes big time on a lot of sites since the last update - hangs, freezes, suddently reloads pages accompanied by the extremely helpful “A problem occurred with this web page so it was reloaded” message. ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-crashing-when-i-try-to-make-a-link/720164/5 "2015-05-18T15:24:40Z")
Ditto. I’ve noticed both these things happening in Safari when browsing with my iPhone. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-crashing-when-i-try-to-make-a-link/720164/6 "2015-05-19T12:06:12Z")
Happens to me using Safari on my iPad. ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-crashing-when-i-try-to-make-a-link/720164/7 "2015-05-20T07:44:23Z")
My next tablet will probably be an android. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-crashing-when-i-try-to-make-a-link/720164/8 "2015-05-21T21:53:09Z")
This started happening on my iPad after a recent OS upgrade. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-crashing-when-i-try-to-make-a-link/720164/9 "2015-05-21T23:48:08Z")
Yep. Me too. I used to love my iPad, but the latest update has really been terrible. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-crashing-when-i-try-to-make-a-link/720164/10 "2015-05-30T18:52:38Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Happens to me using Safari on my iPad. So, I was using Chrome to avoid this problem my iPad has been having, and my tablet freezes instead of crashing. ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-crashing-when-i-try-to-make-a-link/720164/11 "2015-05-30T19:52:21Z")
One thing I’ve noticed about this issue. When I select the word or phrase which I am going to make be the link, a row of 6 possible actions I can take appears (Cut, Copy, Paste, Replace…, Define, Speak). If that row consists of only 4 items (I think, anyway, less than 6) the browser invariably crashes. It hasn’t happened in a bit so I don’t remember what _those_ items are. I’ll make sure to notice the next time it does and see if I can’t glean some information from the items on that shortened list. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2015, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-crashing-when-i-try-to-make-a-link/720164/12 "2015-05-31T18:37:07Z")
Huh. That’s been happening constantly when I post through the low-rent browser internal to 1Password (because I don’t feel like copying over my bizarro long PW from that app into Safari). 1Password immediately exits, and I just assumed it was a problem of that app/company, and would get around one day to emailing them to bitch. So maybe they’re in the clear. Only when I use the earth-chain link icon to embed the written text with the URL. I’ve been posting them as freestanding links now. They/Safari now have an extension to call it without leaving Safari control, so by science I should: 1. Do the copy-over and literally put it in a cold Safari session, and 2. Use the Safari/1Password extension insert. and see what happens. ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2015, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-crashing-when-i-try-to-make-a-link/720164/13 "2015-05-31T18:49:30Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > […] Only when I use the earth-chain link icon to embed the written text with the URL. […] Precisely. I left this part out of my post. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/browser-crashing-when-i-try-to-make-a-link/720164/14 "2015-05-31T18:59:14Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Huh. That’s been happening constantly when I post through the low-rent browser internal to 1Password (because I don’t feel like copying over my bizarro long PW from that app into Safari). 1Password immediately exits, and I just assumed it was a problem of that app/company, and would get around one day to emailing them to bitch. So maybe they’re in the clear. > > Only when I use the earth-chain link icon to embed the written text with the URL. I’ve been posting them as freestanding links now. > > They/Safari now have an extension to call it without leaving Safari control, so by science I should: > > 1. Do the copy-over and literally put it in a cold Safari session, and > 2. Use the Safari/1Password extension insert. > > and see what happens. And, I didn’t mention: this is only on my iPad. I’ve never posted from my desktop (OSX). So, to be clear, is this both Apple OS’s? And is it a leap to suggest its hardware independent? ETA: Did the vBulletin elves futz with that earthlink insert button, maybe?