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Safari tab reloading is FIXED in 7.1 beta 3
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I hate to be that "guy" but I just tried every test you pointed out on my 32gb air/ATT Air with the link you have and I had no crashes and not even any reloads on macrumors website which was also opened. Nothing reloaded either. I don't get this issue at all. I must just have dumb luck. I'll try again but I vist the apple site a lot and it always behaves correctly.
What the......??????
Well reading the responses in this thread, you have a very lucky Air. Just to make sure, you have JavaScript on right? Also try using the Air in landscape mode and try double tapping/zooming in.
Hmmm interesting. If iPhone 5 does not crash, most likely iPad 4 will be stable as well. Try surfing the site again in landscape mode and zoom in/double tap.
Weird...I'm not seeing the leak. Check my screen shot. Safari. Chrome both open with three tabs. Two hours of browsing. An hour with iCab, playing with Siri, checking email and SMS/iMessages.
I've had my two Airs for over five weeks and between the two they've not crashed three times. You may want to return yours. If true, you've got a dud. Repopulating a tab isn't crashing. If Safari is crashing, you've got issues.
It's not embarrassing. It's BS. I've got a 5, 5s, two retina Minis, two Airs and a bunch of 4s. I've tested two Airs, a mini the 5 and 5a (we just went out for dinner and did this little trial). Not a SINGLE device 'crashed'
You're not alone. I'm sure there are duds out there, but Apple will, without issue, exchange your problematic, bad tint, crashing iPad for one that works. It's confidence you should have. As there are many tens of millions of folks out there having a fine time, enjoying their iPads. The new A7 models. Best selling in history. Yet we've got a couple dozen folks on the largest Apple fan forum online swearing up and down its a 'problem'. It's. Not. Buy with confidence. Enjoy for a year, sell and retain 80-85-% of your original expense to buy the latest. You'll be fine. It's amazing to me just over three years ago there were literally NO REAL consumer tabs on the market. Today...42 months later, the iPad Air, retina Mini, Nex7.2, HDX....& ute there are those that can't BELIEVE their tabs repopulate (in less than a second on a decent wifi or LTE connection) because they've got to have a half dozen open. There's reading list. Pocket. Instapaper. iCloud. A million ways to save your article. Clear a tab or two. Find a different browser. In FOUR YEARS! This power. Speed. Elegance. For factor. Battery life and oh....yeah, a half million pieces of software for whatever your interests are. Media; music movies and TV shows. Insane some one can complain. To me, as a 42 year old, I'm BLOWN Away by the incredible strides made in the past decade, really since the iPhone in mobile technology. And we are less than a decade in. Brand. New. OS. Yet the whiners and complaining quarterback Sally's sitting in front do their keyboard trying their absolute BEST to 'prove' the iPad is 'broken'. It isn't. It's fine. It runs EVERYTHING in the App Store without hesitation and the displays are absolutely unbelievable in comparison to the CRTs that lived on most of our desks til just 5/7 years ago.
Time to STOP finding weird sites that will crash your iPad. Weird patterns that'll persist an image on ANY display. Obscure corners and tests on the net you'd NEVER EVER cross in 'real life'. If you live in reality, the iPad in wither A7 flavor, the iPhone 5s for that matter...ALL will meet and certainly exceed your expectations. Unless you're an absolute rube that complains about anything and everything you'll be happier than ever. It's a helluva device
I'm hoping you are not saying Apple's OWN site is a weird site. Are you using Safari with JavaScript on? Also test it in landscape mode and then zoom in/double tap.
This site even crashed on an iPad 2 running iOS 6 (not all the time though). iOS 6 uses less system RAM compared to iOS 7 and even with 512 MB RAM, it actually uses less RAM when using Safari compared to the 1 GB RAM Retina iPads (3 and up). This is mainly due to 4X the pixels it has to display for Safari:
And this is with the Apple 5S website open in Safari? If so, you have a very lucky Air or your using it wrong.
What are you talking about? I was just testing out the max number of tabs safari can keep without having to reload. A lot of people have mentioned (in earlier builds) about how their tabs would reload when they open a new site/link etc. This seems to be much,much better in 7.1 beta 3. Crashing,on the other hand, is still an issue.
I am pretty sure not a lot of people are going to open 12 tabs in safari plus other apps at the same time. I will test out 3-4 tabs in safari + other apps like netflix, appstore etc. to see if it causes tabs to reload.
Tried it several times in safari and the scroll followed by a double tap caused a crash each time. (iOS 7.04)
Then I came back here to post my results and on a whim I tried the same test in Chrome and Mercury browsers. Chrome crashed on the second double tap. Mercury gave me a low memory warning immediately upon loading the page, then again as I scrolled, and again as I double tapped, then it too crashed. For the chrome and mercury tests, the apple site was the only tab open.
When I came back to safari to finish my post, the page refreshed and I lost my post draft and I had to login again.
There are definitely some problems in WebKit on the 64bit iOS 7 devices.
In all other respects my air seems to be working fine.
I did it in landscape mod. Zoomed back and forth multiple times with no crashes.
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I just tested the site with my rMini and it did not crash. I did it in landscape mode and zoomed in and out and scrolled up and down. No crash at all.
Just tried this on the iPhone 5s it loads fine and does not crash but the Air does exactly like in the video..... crashes every time.
Yes, I do have JavaScript on. The site works fine for me and some other folks too. This issue seems to be unit to unit as opposed to a product wide problem. I'm also NOT buying the 1 GB of ram being too little for this device. It's perfectly enough. The safari problem is safari and iOS 7.
I know. I have a dev account with apple for work.
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This site has alot of js errors on it.
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This site has alot of js errors on it.
Amazing how the folks who's devices NEVER crash, are invariably the same one's who also stick to the "1 gig of RAM is A-OK" apple party line.
Luckily, no one actually uses their iPads around here. They just power it on to check for light bleed, image retention, color tint, to see if changing the wallpaper crashes it, to see if apple.com crashes it, you know, productivity stuff.
Just reporting my findings. I still believe this issue is more software related than hardware related. We are going to find out soon! The gig of RAM is actually OK for many of us users. At least so far it is.
And the reason why Apple saw no need to increase the Ram. It's fine for millions versus hundreds.
And like I keep stating, I do not see lots of returns regardless of an unusable device that is deficient in ram and whose primary browser is trash.
I don't know what it means, but this site crashed twice for me using the mercury browser (on a retina mini).
And for those who say that Safari never crashes for them, it used to never crash for me either. Now it crashes quite often.
Damn! 1 gb of ram. What a way to ruin a great product. Surprisingly, the solution is inexpensive.
typed it straight into safari and... crash. switched ipad off and on again, loaded it slowly then it gets stuck, not crashing but just stuck, when clicking on the different coloured iphone cases... as i was typing this on my mac the whole ipad restarted. i know i have an ipad 2 but i never saw anything like this in ios6 and my ipad is capable of playing san andreas without problems, no crashing at all, but then it can't load a website. and then they take over 6 months to fix these problems.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
The 5s pulled that up in seconds just typing in the web address using Safari on wifi no less, I will try my Air later when I get home.
Edit: No problem on a slow DSL connection using Safari and the Air either.
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My retina-mini pulled up the page quickly as well. It was only after I scrolled around and double tapped to increase the size of text that it crashed. The first time I tried it it crashed right away; the second time I had to try double tapping in a couple different places before it did.
It wouldn't surprise me if some people are experiencing this and others are not. My retina mini was fine for months; it's only been recently that the browser crashes so often. My guess is it's a software problem. Perhaps if I deleted everything and installed the OS from scratch, that would fix it.
I don't have any problems with this page on my Retina iPad Air. It's a bit sluggish when I scroll and zoom, and other Safari tabs tend to get evicted from memory, but that's understandable because it's a VERY BIG page.