[mania]

So the Image of doom is killing not only Safari, but the finder, preview and the help viewer (anything based on webkit). This is on things I need like Quickbooks Help (apparently contains an image of doom). It seems to be GIFs.

What can I do? I have the latest OS, quickbooks, everything. I don't think this happens to everyone so there seems to be no urgency on Apples part to fix it. Its driving me mad.

Here is an example from quickbooks help crashing:

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000002

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 libGIF.dylib 0x91c1cf78 _cg_DGifGetImageDesc + 488
1 com.apple.ImageIO.framework 0x919f8f7c gifPluginImageCount + 256
2 com.apple.ImageIO.framework 0x919f1c0c CGImageSourceGetCount + 152
3 com.apple.ImageIO.framework 0x919f22dc makeImagePlus + 40
4 com.apple.ImageIO.framework 0x919f2288 CGImageSourceGetPropertiesAtIndex + 84
5 com.apple.ImageIO.framework 0x919f9044 CGImageSourceCopyPropertiesAtIndex + 52
6 com.apple.WebKit 0x9576a9a4 -[WebImageData _isSizeAvailable] + 92
7 com.apple.WebKit 0x95706e80 -[WebImageData incrementalLoadWithBytes:length:complete:callback:] + 228
8 com.apple.WebKit 0x9571bf94 -[WebImageRenderer incrementalLoadWithBytes:length:complete:callback:] + 180

[Catfish_Man]

Hm... "The" image of doom is a jpeg. Maybe this is a related issue?

[kick52]

sorry, i googled it, WTF is the image of doom?

[mania]

images that crash safari. there was a front page article here on macnn a few days ago. i had to use 'show package contents' on quickbooks, drill down to find three offending images and then rename them so the help viewer couldn't see them. i have no idea why this started happening. its always gifs.

[Maflynn]

I've never heard of these "images of doom" and I've never had anything crash safari or osx while surfing

[Catfish_Man]

Originally Posted by Maflynn

I've never heard of these "images of doom" and I've never had anything crash safari or osx while surfing

http://www.drunkenblog.com

Scroll down the page, and don't go there while you have important data open in your browser (should work in any 10.4 version of safari). Also, it really sucks to save it to your desktop; the Finder gets stuck in a crash loop until manage to get rid of the file.

<edit>
Also, it's not anything based on WebKit. The Finder and Preview most certainly don't use WK. It hits anything based on ImageIO, and therefore anything using NSImage or friends.
</edit>

[kick52]

i have never had this before, saf kept on quitting when i hit southamptons web page.