Pages reload when swiping back in Safari, is it a bug that will be fixed?

[Frosties]

Same problem

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1198479/

 

[paulsalter]

I am getting confused now

is there some major change in the way browsers work

 

[johnmacward]

Has anyone else noticed that? Is that a bug or is it supposed to be like that? It takes a few seconds before I can even start scrolling down and stuff. I find it very annoying especially since I'm in my summer house and my internet connection isn't very fast.

It depends on which pages you're on. Some are designed to reload on every visit (back or forward) due to the fact that they may have content that needs updating. I think this is more of a HTML / Javascript thing than Safari. It just happens to make the animation pointless.

You should notice this on any browser especially on a site like TechCrunch.

 

[MacRum2011]

what i hate with safari is that if you have more than one tab, I usually have around half a dozen, and if i go back to another tab Safari refreshes the page, and I just hate it, especially if you are in the middle of writing something in a forum, and you pop over to another tab to look up something, then pop back over, the darn thing refreshes and you lose what you typed. I have 4GB ram and I can't put any more in.

 

[tigres]

what i hate with safari is that if you have more than one tab, I usually have around half a dozen, and if i go back to another tab Safari refreshes the page, and I just hate it, especially if you are in the middle of writing something in a forum, and you pop over to another tab to look up something, then pop back over, the darn thing refreshes and you lose what you typed. I have 4GB ram and I can't put any more in.

Could not agree more. Safari 5.1 is terrible.
Someone tell Steve to get this *hit sorted ASAP. Refreshing every page back a forth is a complete utter joke. It's like my MBA has 256k of allocated ram for surfing.

 

[jkcmac]

does it refresh from cache or from the website?

ie
after you have read this post and scrolled back a page, is this topic marked as read or still bolded

it does refresh the page because when I reload the page it is has updated. it is not from the cache.

you can see a round little thing turning on the right side of the address bar which that means refreshing/reloading? when these in progress the launchpad does not work until the process are finished.

 

[paulsalter]

it does refresh the page because when I reload the page it is has updated. it is not from the cache.

you can see a round little thing turning on the right side of the address bar which that means refreshing/reloading? when these in progress the launchpad does not work until the process are finished.

very interesting, thanks

now to find out why me (and a few others) dont get this

mine just reloads from cache which is getting annoying

 

[jkcmac]

Sorry my mistake! is the trackpad cannot scroll during these process.


thx and welcome

 

[C64]

There must be a terminal command for this somewhere? This is just so terrible

 

[mrklaw]

It depends on which pages you're on. Some are designed to reload on every visit (back or forward) due to the fact that they may have content that needs updating. I think this is more of a HTML / Javascript thing than Safari. It just happens to make the animation pointless.

You should notice this on any browser especially on a site like TechCrunch.

I think I get it now. It isn't actually behaving any differently than when you used to press the back button, but before you used to get the loading blue bar then the page. So in your head it was logical.

Now, you instantly see a view of the previous page due to the animation, but then it reloads as before.

So the behaviour is the same, but the animation gives you a mental disconnect and makes you think there is a problem.

Hmm... I like the animation but this is frustrating.

 

[AGold]

google news goes back to an old page

I actually love the feature, but when I swipe back to my homepage which is google news, I see the current page for one second, and then it switches to google news from about a week ago. When I hit the reload arrow it updates it.

Anyone else notice this?

 

[phyrexia]

It sounds like Safari is behaving like it does on the iPad.