Ripple Crashing on Chrome Version 48

We’ve had reports of Ripple crashing with an “Aw snap” message in the latest version of Chrome (v48.0.2564.103 m). The main way people are running into the issue is by setting window.location in their app, but but you can also run into this by simply adding the cordova-plugin-media plugin. We took a deep dive and found what appears to be a bug in Chromium, so we filed an issue to track the problem.

Unfortunately, the only workaround we have at the moment is to downgrade Chrome to version 46 (which we know is difficult to do). We’re working on changing Ripple to get around the bug and hope to have a new version released shortly. I’ll be back with an announcement when that happens because there are some steps you’ll need to take to update Ripple to the latest version.

** Update 2/12/2016 ** We’ve released a new version of Ripple that fixes this issue. Please see this post for more information.

Michael Braude
Development Manager | Tools for Apache Cordova
mbraude@microsoft.com | @LittleWebFoot