Bug 129317 – Web Inspector: Safari hangs when the Web Inspector is opened for a connected iOS device

• Component: Web Inspector
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Devon Persing]

Created attachment 225161 [details]
Crash report for the issue.

Overview:

When the Web Inspector in Safari on OSX is opened to view output for an attached iOS device, Safari hangs and must be forced to quit.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Attach an iOS device via USB to an OSX device.
2. Open Safari and load a web page on the iOS device.
3. Open Safari on the OSX device.
4. On the OSX device, under the Develop menu, select the attached device name and then the page that is open on that device to open Web Inspector for the device.
5. Go to the Web Inspector window.

Actual Results:

Clicking into the Web Inspector window does nothing. The user is not able to click on any content in the window. After a moment, the beach ball will appear, and the application will report as not responding.

Expected Results:

User should be able to interact with Web Inspector normally.

Build Date & Platform:

OSX device: 11" Mid-2012 MacBook Air running Mavericks (10.9.1) and using Safari 7.0.1 (9537.73.11) / WebKit 537.73.11

iOS device: 3rd gen iPad running iOS 7.0.6 and using Safari (9537.53, according to show-ip.net)

OSX Crash Reporter:

Attached as a text file.

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/16161472>

[Devon Persing]

Hi all,

I did some more digging and turns out this was a larger issue with the inspector crashing, not specific to viewing the inspector for an iOS device. Clearing out Flash, which I unfortunately had to install for testing, and resetting the browser seems to have done the trick. I'll mark this as resolved!