How often does Safari crash on you?

[California King]

I've been hearing that a lot people have Safari on their iPod touches crash a lot and I was wondering how often? Everytime you use it? Once in a while? Not that often, etc.

Also, did the update actually make Safari crash more often? That's also something I've heard.

[halfgoon]

I managed to crash Safari within half an hour of using it, by going to a flash heavy page. Took it straight down. But after updating, I haven't had any crashes yet, and that's from about 3 hours' use.

[California King]

I managed to crash Safari within half an hour of using it, by going to a flash heavy page. Took it straight down. But after updating, I haven't had any crashes yet, and that's from about 3 hours' use.
Cool, so I guess the update actually did you good. Thanks.

[Chundles]

The only time (and it happens every time I do it) is when I add a smilie to a post in here with the buttons to the left of this box :)

The one I just did I made using the symbols on the keyboard.

EDIT: this post worked because I just typed a colon and a parentheses but if I press the smile face button then Safari crashes when I submit the reply.

[ohio state fan]

I have had my touch since it very first came out and i have never had safarivcrash on me.

[Maxington]

I have had safari crash a few times, but mostly because of the wifi spot I was using keeps fading in-and-out and that probably had more to do with it than the app itself.

[clevin]

often, not to a degree of intolerable yet, but firmware update didn't do any good on this.

u don't need a flash heavy website since this thing support no flash anyway. you just need to often try to operate before the progress bar finishes.

in a word, you need to be patient for this slow thing, any impatience will cause problem from time to time.

[EssentialParado]

what happens when safari crashes? does the ipod freeze up?

[clevin]

what happens when safari crashes? does the ipod freeze up?

no, it brings you back to home screen

[phatboy]

safari is now crashing every two minutes for me. sucks so bad.
when im playing music it crashes too. not even when im on safari at the same time.
hopefully the software update will help.

[awmazz]

I just had my first Safari crash on opening another forum, by pressing the bookmarks icon before it was fully loaded (silly how it automatically starts loading the website from when Safari last was open, even if you don't want it to). How can you default it to start with a blank page?

Anyway, when I restarted, Safari was frozen on a blank screen and nothing would work, not even the home button or the off switch. The big hardware freeze. Doing a full restore now to get it working again. Wiping everything and blanking the whole bloody thing back to scratch.

PS. Where do all these extra bookmark folders (like Travel and Entertainment) with loads of bookmarks I've never seen before come from when I sync my bookmarks? I hate them. Anyone know how I can permanently get rid of them without having to delete them all one by one?

[chicagopepper]

since the update didn't stop safari from crashing (about once every 5 minutes for me) is it worth taking to apple? Or do the new ones have the same problem?

[clevin]

since the update didn't stop safari from crashing (about once every 5 minutes for me) is it worth taking to apple? Or do the new ones have the same problem?

its software bugs, apple is weak at software developing, taking back to apple really won't help a bit. we can only wait for its updates, who knows how long it will take.:o

[MagicWok]

I've got a week 37 with v1.1.1 update, I haven't had a single crash on safari, yet. Although I expect it will happen at some point, it's fairly rock steady.

I'd like to get a W38 or 39 model, but I'm resisting after the 'fix' and since mine has no dead pixels at all. Though it is tempting, as I have the service package with me ready to send back to Apple Care if I feel that I want to. Been thinking it over the weekend lol.

[Britblogger]

never crashed in 2 weeks.

[mahger]

the normal version of digg.com has been crashing safari for the past 2 weeks, but I guessed they fixed it cause today its not longer doing that.

[Vikinguy]

Mine gas been very solid. Maybe 2 or3 in a week.

[awmazz]

Anyway, when I restarted, Safari was frozen on a blank screen and nothing would work, not even the home button or the off switch. The big hardware freeze. Doing a full restore now to get it working again. Wiping everything and blanking the whole bloody thing back to scratch.


I'll just update this as to the cause. I used FilemarkMaker.app to add a PDF file to my Safari bookmarks. At 4.9MB in size, it was clearly too much for Safari on the iPt to handle and froze the whole system up permanently until I did a full wipe and restore to factory default.

Didn't even open the PDF bookmark. The second time just opened a blank page in Safari and the system froze again, so its mere presence in the bookmark file was an overload. So take it as a warning that this technique is not a good option to get large pdfs or ebooks onto your iPt.

[funnyent]

Mobile safari has only crashed on me once it's not that bad as people say. :)

[funnyent]

mobile safari has only crashed on my once, it's not as bad as people say. :)

[Funplex]

I think it's more of a question of when doesn't Safari crash?

Anytime browsing involves the keypad or typing in login names and passwords, it crashes.

[A N G E L]

Safari rarely crashed when I had the 2.1 software installed on my iPod touch 2G, but with the 2.2 software update, it hasn't crashed once.

[nick9191]

Never.

I've had pretty much all the releases of OS 1 and 2. Never had an issue with anything.

[iLoveMyApple]

Never, not once! My Safari has never crashed! *knocks on wood* ;)

[semin28]

When I first got the touch everything was perfect but as days go by it started to crash a lot. Then came the 2.2 update that seemed to fix the problem but a couple days later it started doing it again. Now it's worse then ever for me . Like every other time I use the safari it crashes.

[SnowLeopard2008]

if you go to regular sites without those flash animations it should be fine. i havent had it crash on ever. don't look at porn either. lol.

[semin28]

Ewwww maybe Its the porn?

[big-blue-wolf]

I've had my touch since September 2007 and in all that time, through all the versions of the OS, Safari has probably only crashed around half a dozen times.

It is more stable than is suggested by this and other forums.