Had a strange issue a few nights ago web browsing with Safari on my iPad. Was doing my last rounds of a half dozen of my regular forum sites, when all of a sudden everything slowed down to a crawl. Pages that typically loaded in a second or less were now taking several minutes. To try to determine if it was my device or network, I tried the same sites from my iPhone, with the same result. Went through the usual troubleshooting steps - closed and reopened Safari; turned WiFi off and on; hard reboot devices; recycled my network, all to no avail - everything still just crawled. On a whim I tried a different browser (Firefox), and to my surprise, everything loaded normally. Safari on both iPad and iPhone was abysmally slow, but the same pages on Firefox were normal. This lasted for at least an hour while I finished up my late-night surf, and who knows how much longer after that. The next morning and since then, everything has been fine. I’ve had internet slowdowns and a few complete outages before, usually it’s my useless service provider doing maintenance in the area, but I’ve never seen just one browser go wonky (on two different devices). Can anyone explain how or why this could happen?
