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Anyone else want an option for safari automatic refresh?

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falkedup

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Oct 15, 2011
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Drives me nuts every time i open safari and I have to wait for it to reload a page before I can even have access to the controls. Or if I want to just quick reference something I pulled up earlier.

Unless there is a way to turn it off that I don't know about?
 
So it shouldn't do that? I rarely kill my apps

I thought it was an always refreshed page kinda thing
 
I've noticed auto-refresh when swiping back to previous pages.
Especially if you don't exit reader mode before swiping back.
It is annoying but I'm hoping it gets ironed out.
 
Edgabimbam said:
If you dont want to reload pages again, dont kill safari app
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Still does it quite often even when the app is not killed (and not many apps are used that would really take up that much memory that Safari would have to give it up).
 
If you only have 1-2 tabs open then it won't refresh. Also, if it's been several hours since you've opened Safari then it'll refresh. I hate it as well.
 
jason2811 said:
If you only have 1-2 tabs open then it won't refresh. Also, if it's been several hours since you've opened Safari then it'll refresh. I hate it as well.
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Not necessarily true. If you have an older ipad or the mini which has less RAM, they reload if you were to leave safari and go to another app or two. If you come back later to it, they refresh automatically.
 
jason2811 said:
If you only have 1-2 tabs open then it won't refresh. Also, if it's been several hours since you've opened Safari then it'll refresh. I hate it as well.
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Have had it even with 1 tab open on iPhone 5 (so enough RAM), possibly simply because a few hours have passed, which is a very lame "excuse" to do it.
 
adam044 said:
People use Safari?! Chrome ftw!!
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Doesn't it do the same kind of things (after all it's just mostly a UI wrapper on Safari's web view, without the faster Nitro JavaScript engine)?
 
C DM said:
Doesn't it do the same kind of things (after all it's just mostly a UI wrapper on Safari's web view, without the faster Nitro JavaScript engine)?
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Yeah basically. But I use Chrome on my Mac so that's why I use it on my phone/ipad. Keeps it synced
 
adam044 said:
Yeah basically. But I use Chrome on my Mac so that's why I use it on my phone/ipad. Keeps it synced
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Ah, sure...but I don't think it would really make a difference when it comes to this whole thing.
 
C DM said:
Ah, sure...but I don't think it would really make a difference when it comes to this whole thing.
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The reason for the auto-refresh in the first place is how Safari handles the page cache. If you come back to a tab or Safari and the cache for it has been purged, then it reloads it.

Safari as far as I know only uses RAM as its cache. And if a memory request causes iOS to ask Safari to reduce its memory footprint, then the cached pages get purged. It's a simple cache system, but it works.

Other browsers can handle the caching differently on iOS (it is part of the web view that you can override). So if Chrome caches to flash, it will at least auto-refresh much more quickly since it can load/render from disk rather than the network.
 
Krevnik said:
The reason for the auto-refresh in the first place is how Safari handles the page cache. If you come back to a tab or Safari and the cache for it has been purged, then it reloads it.

Safari as far as I know only uses RAM as its cache. And if a memory request causes iOS to ask Safari to reduce its memory footprint, then the cached pages get purged. It's a simple cache system, but it works.

Other browsers can handle the caching differently on iOS (it is part of the web view that you can override). So if Chrome caches to flash, it will at least auto-refresh much more quickly since it can load/render from disk rather than the network.
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So which browser on the App Store gets rid of this 'feature'?
 
CyanLite said:
Do you know of any specific ones?
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No, I don't. If they don't mention it in the description, there isn't really a way to tell without using it and guessing. I haven't used anything other than Safari in a while because I rely on it for bookmark syncing. :/
 
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