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Incredibly, opening this link on Firefox on my iPhone crashes the phone. Happens every time - click the link, phone restarts.

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Opening in safari, its a completely blank page

Edit: a couple people said that’s because someone set display: none, so likes unrelated?

Very common webkit behaviour.

Most powerful iPhone runs out of memory when it has to render too much.

This should never crash the phone, though. Especially in a heavily sandboxed OS like iOS

May be more directly related to the CPU/etc load and HW age rather than software. If the phone's battery is older, it may not be able to keep up with the bursty power draw, which can cause the phone to crash.

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