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Will Safari ever be fixed?

sovereign

sovereign

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Scrolling on a maxed out Air 2 is ridiculous. Scroll down and stare at blank space before Safari can load the damn page. Mercury seems to force load pages better, but it has its own issues. Safari on an iPhone 6+ is much better. Seems to be an issue primarily with the iPad.
 
From what i've read it has more to do with Webkit and other browsers use the same engine. No such issues with Android.
 
sovereign said:
Scrolling on a maxed out Air 2 is ridiculous. Scroll down and stare at blank space before Safari can load the damn page. Mercury seems to force load pages better, but it has its own issues. Safari on an iPhone 6+ is much better. Seems to be an issue primarily with the iPad.
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6+ and Mini2 - Safari on the Mini is far far worse. Tab reloads, off screen no-loads, slow-loads, etc....., spinning wheel, "There has been an error....." reloads, page never-loads.....

It's too the point I am actively looking an alternatives to my LTE Mini 2 .....
 
Rodster said:
Isn't Chrome for Android based on Webview or Chromium? :confused: If Chrome also uses Webkit like Safari then that is even more indicting on Apple's software group not knowing what they are doing if their competitors have a more reliable web browser.

https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/faq
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Yes, in iOS all the browsers are built upon the same thing that Safari uses (not counting the JavaScript engine).
 
C DM said:
Yes, in iOS all the browsers are built upon the same thing that Safari uses (not counting the JavaScript engine).
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Yes I knew that was the case with iOS which explains the almost equal behavior between iOS browsers. I don't know if Android uses the same approach? Be that as it may, I have found the Android web browsers to be more reliable. Sad, really because I prefer using my iPad because of the screen size.
 
No problems whatsoever on an iPad 4 running iOS 6.1. iOS 7+ sucks on iPads.

It's a sorry state when iOS regresses in stability and Scott Forstall is no more.
 
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sovereign said:
Scrolling on a maxed out Air 2 is ridiculous. Scroll down and stare at blank space before Safari can load the damn page. Mercury seems to force load pages better, but it has its own issues. Safari on an iPhone 6+ is much better. Seems to be an issue primarily with the iPad.
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I don't know if you users should take this as a joke or not but the correct title of the thread should've been "Will iOS ever be fixed?"
 
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