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All iPads Safari in iPad Air is so irritating! Why no fix?

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Newjackboy

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The tabs opened in the background do not load in the background.

Also, when I switch between safari tabs, the new active tab always auto refreshes.

This is terrible and so irritating. Safari and Mail is 99 percent what I use my ipad for


Is this software (was hoping 7.0.4 would fix) or this hardware memory issues people have been writing about?
 
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herdnerfer said:
Try using google chrome for a while, if you have the same issues, it's most likely the limited amount of RAM causing the problem.
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I wish people would stop spewing this FUD.

My wife and I sit and browse on our iPads while watching TV, her on a 3rd gen and me on an Air - both running 7.0.4. Her device gets the Apple logo at LEAST twice as much as I do.

iOS 7 has issues. Hard issues to fix in software are hard to fix, hopefully there will be one soon.

Not saying that Safari crashing on the Air doesn't suck; but I'm saying it sucks no worse than any other iPad at the moment.
 
Safari restarts at least 3 times per day for me. I'm fine if background tabs reload when becoming active or don't load in the background - just don't restart. Very annoying.
 
iOS 7 is terrible, Safari crashes , and Goodreader has many problems, grey screens and crashes.

Those were the 2 reasons to own an iPad.

Glad I kept a iPad 4 on iOS 6.

My Air is gong back after Christmas if its not solved.
 
What annoys me most is tabs that load in the background display the page when you switch to them, and then reload the page! What the :;()$&@? If the browser can show me the page for a half second, why does it need to reload? Both safari and chrome seem to do this. Very frustrating.
 
OSMac said:
iOS 7 is terrible, Safari crashes , and Goodreader has many problems, grey screens and crashes.

Those were the 2 reasons to own an iPad.

Glad I kept a iPad 4 on iOS 6.

My Air is gong back after Christmas if its not solved.
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You can fix the Goodreader problem by going to Settings>PDF Viewing>Pre-cache adjacent pages. Turn that setting off.
 
I've logged an support ticket with Apple for these issues.

Spoke to an Apple guy this morning. He advised usual story about restoring as new etc, then restoring.

Never helped. He's due to call again tomorrow for an update.
 
OSMac said:
Try this...

http://translate.google.ca/translat...=/search?q=marca&safe=off&client=safari&hl=en
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Ok... What's supposed to happen? I have it and two other tabs open and no crash...?
 
j.benj said:
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Ok... What's supposed to happen? I have it and two other tabs open and no crash...?
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He meant to go to http://marca.com it's the new benchmark for crash testing. BTW, it worked fine in Mercury browser although you will get a low memory warning as your scroll down the impossibly long graphic filled page.
 
Newjackboy said:
The tabs opened in the background do not load in the background.

Also, when I switch between safari tabs, the new active tab always auto refreshes.

This is terrible and so irritating. Safari and Mail is 99 percent what I use my ipad for


Is this software (was hoping 7.0.4 would fix) or this hardware memory issues people have been writing about?
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Get free Mercury browser, so much better any way I try.

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OSMac said:
iOS 7 is terrible, Safari crashes , and Goodreader has many problems, grey screens and crashes.

Those were the 2 reasons to own an iPad.

Glad I kept a iPad 4 on iOS 6.

My Air is gong back after Christmas if its not solved.
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buy android, it might work for you
 
tyche said:
He meant to go to http://marca.com it's the new benchmark for crash testing. BTW, it worked fine in Mercury browser although you will get a low memory warning as your scroll down the impossibly long graphic filled page.
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I think you mean "new benchmark" for a very small group of geeks. ;)
Most could care less
 
My safari rarely crashes and the few times it has its been the result of poorly written javascript from what I can tell because the sites are known offenders.
 
Aye, no issues with Safari on my ipad3 either. You must be very unlucky.

Maybe try reset all settings? My ipad3 had some performance issues which were fixed this way.
 
Listen to the apple defenders OP, they are trying to tell you your problem don't exist. Your experience is inconsequential. SMH

I would return the air if possible, and try again. Lots of reports of people getting new pads with a lot fewer crashes and fewer tab reloads. At a minimum, let apple experience some financial hit for the problems you are having with the return. That is the ONLY way apple would possibly recognize the issue.
 
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DarwinOSX said:
The ram is sufficient and is not an issue.
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Someone above posted:
You can fix the Goodreader problem by going to Settings>PDF Viewing>Pre-cache adjacent pages. Turn that setting off.

So putting a memory consuming setting to off fixes the problem.... wonder why...
 
I haven't had any safari crashes on my Air, wouldn't surprise me if they update the Air with 2gb ram and Touch ID March/April 14, Like they did iPad 3-4?
 
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