is it possible to disable safari's auto reload?

[tbluhp]

in safari 5.1 (lion os) about half of the time when multiple tabs are open and I go back to a different tab safari will reload the site causing all unsaved work loss is there a way to disable this?

 

[Dream Loader]

It won't reload unless there's something on the website causing it reloading?
Maybe when you're doing work, there's something like a java script causing it to reload?

 

[riker1384]

This is happening to me too. I think it might be closing pages that I'm not looking at in order to save memory, then loading them again when I view them.

Sometimes though, it reloads everything at once for no apparent reason.

I find this auto-reloading very obnoxious, it causes several different problems. Lost typing, losing the previous version of a page that has changed, and so forth. I would really like to find a way to disable it.

 

[flopticalcube]

Carry-over from the iOS version? This happens on the iPad Safari all the time. Most annoying.

 

[BJB Productions]

Happens to me daily. I had a huge thread I was writing here, then when I was literally about to post, I flipped over to another tab for a second, then came back, and it reloaded my page losing all my work.

 

[old-wiz]

Sounds like a good reason to avoid Safari.

If safari does this re-download in IOS, wouldn't that cause an unnecessary increase in your data usage? With data getting more expensive all the time, I would think that is a bad idea.

 

[Yr Blues]

Why does Chrome work so much better and faster on my Mac?