A problem occurred with this web page so it was reloaded

He might have meant AdBlock. I'm playing with it now. Cuts load time on Fox News by about 80-90%. 😮

Ohhh!! It's nothing it's just forced thing so you can avoid bugs!!

I Typed in the wrong browser name it it is Adblock pro.

i Have read other post that indicate the same problem with Chrome.

the Adblock seems to be a bare bones app that also blocks ads.

it think the ads are probably the problem as they use a lot of memory

I have been having problems for months and almost gave up on the IPad. At least now I can use it again.

BtW I also start d having the same problem with my IPhone 6+

The problem is not specifically ads, and a program that disables ads and JavaScript is not a workable solution to the problem. The problem occurs with JavaScript processing on pages that have no ads whatsoever. Not all scripts are ads, and simply disabling JavaScript breaks the web.

I haven't personally run into the problem since 8.3 was released, though I haven't gone looking for the problem much. Can others confirm that they have seen this after the 8.3 update?

This is simply a bug in Safari, and the only solution is for Apple to fix it, assuming they haven't already done so.

Chrome is at the mercy of Safari, because Apple forces all iOS browsers to use Safari as the underlying rendering engine. In essence, the only browser choice on iOS is Safari. http://www.howtogeek.com/184283/why-third-party-browsers-will-always-be-inferior -to-safari-on-iphone-and-ipad/

I Am using 8.3 and the problem is still there.

Adblock

is an app and is sold at the App Store.

what you say is probably correct, but all I know is I have tried every suggestion for months to no avail.

once I started using Adblock my problems went away and page loading seems faster.

i kept thing Apple would fix this problem both with every software update I found out they had not.

i Would also think some smart lawyer would file a class action suit against Apple for not doing anything for months and months.

as I said, I almost stopped using my IPad and considered not purchasing a new mini ipad.

i Have told many of my friends about the problems I ha been experiencing

That is an interesting article but... I have been searching for a faster browser that also doesn't refresh the page every time I switch tabs & where I don't see the message 'a problem occurred with this page...'. Specifically when using my iPad 2 running iOS 8.3, I am finding that it runs low on memory even after clearing history & website data. If I reboot, it is fine for a while but the problem seems to come back quite quickly. I guess the age of the iPad 2 (4 years) and memory (512 MB) might be to blame but I am surprised it is happening on the newer devices including the iPad Air. I don't notice it much on my Air 2 though I have seen the error a few times. According to that article, NO browser will ever render a page faster than Safari. Well, in my quest I have downloaded a few browsers free & paid(Chrome, Mercury, iCab Mobile) & today I downloaded iCab Mobile. For my devices: iPad 2 & iPad Air 2, the browser is definitely faster. I am also not seeing pages refresh while switching tabs which was a big issue for me. I only started using it today but running them side by side accessing this site, the page loads much faster using iCab Mobile. Why, I don't know & maybe it will get bogged down in a few days of use but for now, it has made my browsing experience back to where it was pre iOS 8. So for me, I don't believe the only browser choice is Safari. Maybe the newer JavaScript engine which is supposed to be faster is in fact causing the problem on older devices. Older versions of Safari loaded webpages fine (on my iPad 2) so maybe the fact that iCab uses the older Engine is why it performs better on my iPad 2.

I decided to jump out of this discussion after my first response, but have been following it all along. Just my OT two cents,

The title of the article implying that all other browsers are inferior to Safari is not fair or true IMO. I also have iCab Mobile. It is far superior to Safari in many ways. It has a ton of very useful features, quite a number of add-ons or modules available - so many in fact that I have no clue what most of them do. You can upload files other than photos with ICab. You can download files other than pdf files and photos. You can identify the browser as a number of different desktop browsers which allowed users that insisted on accessing iCloud,com on their device the ability to do so for a couple of years. Safari just started allowing the browser to identify as a desktop version. Those features make iCab Mobile a superior browser in my opinion. I think it is virtually as fast as Safari for my day to day surfing as well. I also have Chrome and I think that browser is very fast and as fast as Safari is.

I wonder how old that aricle is, since some of that information is outdated now. Look at the screenshot of the iPad with Safari running. Safari doesn't look like that anymore.

Aha, you are right Demo, I noticed the date on the post but not the article. I am liking iCab and although it's a paid app, it's worth every penny 🙂

I Have close to a couple of hundred apps - most of which I almost never use. Of those almost 200 apps, I think that I have paid for maybe twenty of them, iCab Mobile is one of the apps that I paid for, and I also agree that it was well worth the price of the app. 🙂

The article was from March of last year. Since then, Apple did make one change to allow other browsers to use Safari's newer JS engine. So you may indeed find browsers that have adopted Safari's newer JavaScript processor. But they do still have to use Safari's rendering and JavaScript processing.

iCab uses Safari: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICab

The lack of real browser options on iOS has been a big problem for some of us. I create software that lets music students play musical instruments and get scored by my free browser game. I can't bring this to iOS, because Apple hasn't added microphone support to Safari. Chrome and Firefox support microphone on other platforms, but they aren't allowed to do it on iOS.

(The iOS browser rendering/JS processing requirement is stated in Apple's App Store Review Guidelines: "Apps that browse the web must use the iOS WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript." https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ )

Whoever does the rendering is immaterial to me as long as the thing reliably loads pages. I am using AdBlock Plus now because for general browsing like reading the news it is hugely faster when loading crap-choked pages like CNN or Fox. It doesn't reload the page every time you return from reading an article either (or if it does it's so fast as to be unnoticeable). It's not perfect, but it gets the job done and has saved my iPad Air from the scrap heap. I haven't seen any page reloads due to errors, either.

Safari can take up to 10 seconds of ridiculous hopping up and down and element resizing to load a page on Fox (probably the worst example). You have to wait and wait and just as you go to tap on a link, it jumps out from under your fingertip. That gets real old, real fast. Doesn't happen on AdBlock.

It may help with some pages (while at the same time preventing that company from being paid for their work), but it can't solve the problem. As I said, I've had the problem with my own software. I have no ads on my site. The problem can be produced running JavaScript benchmarks like Google Octane. It really seems like it's just memory related, as if Safari's JS engine doesn't know how to clean up as efficiently as it used to. Using Adblock means it will take you longer to run as much JavaScript and use as much memory, so the problem will be delayed if you are visiting sites with a bunch of ads that use JS.

This is a Safari issue that Apple needs to resolve. Blocking some JavaScript can make the problem take longer to appear, but it can't eliminate it. The build-up still occurs. And for content that uses JavaScript to provide useful functionality, it simply doesn't work at all.

I certainly don't disagree with you about Apple needing to actually maintain their software instead of layering on release after release of new bugs. The fact remains that Safari on my iPad Air is not useable for me with iOS 8.3 so, until Apple becomes more interested in content than surface glitter, I'll use AdBlock. YMMV.

IT really is frustrating when I am coding on Khan Academy and it lags and since there is lag, the stupid iPad reloads it JUST to make it faster...

or could it be because of LOW MEMORY/TOO MUCH MEMORY AT ONCE?!

As far as I know, this also happened recently on my computer while using Firefox Browser doing the same thing (basically) , but Firefox CRASHED... At least it doesn't happen as quickly as it does on my school iPad!

New iPads need to be upgraded with WAY more memory or RAM or whatever. It wouldn't hurt TO DO THIS, APPLE!

—Cameron Johnson (Coolcam6578)