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IOS Safari page reloads driving me to drink
I just submitted the following feedback to Apple for the iPad. To me this is the number one Achilles heel of this product, and I'd pay real money to anyone that can make a web browser to solve this:
I love most things about my iPad, but the was Safari constantly reloads pages is driving me to drink.
The following has happened to me more times than I care to admit:
1. Go to a forum, click to reply to a thread.
2. Type a five paragraph post clearly demonstrating your wit and wisdom.
3. Realize that your reference to Pericles doesn't mention his birth and death date.
4. Open a new tab in Safari, and google Pericles. The google results will probably list his dates, so you don't have to click past the results.
5. Switch back to your witty and incisive post to add the dates---whoops, Safari has to reload the page, and as a result, your lovingly crafted response that took an hour to get right is now gone.
(I probably spelled Pericles wrong, but I'm afraid to look it up)
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My suggestion would have been much longer but that is as many characters as their feedback form allows.
- porlw 13y agoI find this very annoying too. Also, if you have a bunch of tabs loaded ready to read and you go out of signal range, you lose the pages! I understand mobile browsers have a limited memory, but I don't see why they can't cache the resources required for currently open tabs in the local file system.
- frou_dh 13y agoYou can at least mitigate this by copying long but unsent messages to the clipboard. I somehow picked up that habit years ago on desktop computers, probably because crashing and connection issues were common at the time.
- tonylemesmer 13y agoOne of the biggest reasons I don't use iOS and also, why I downgraded from Kitkat to 4.3 (what ever that's called) on Android because it started happening on that in Chrome.