ShadowDancer1000
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Q: Safari Loses Page / Scroll Position When Changing Tabs

Ever since the update to Safari 9.0.1 I've been encountering a strange intermittent problem with Safari.

 

On occasion, if I load up a tab and scroll down (or up), then leave the tab and go to another tab read something else, when I come back to the first tab - the page position is not where I left it. It's back to whatever the position it was when the tab was originally loaded.

 

This behavior is particularly frustrating when the article or thread is long and you've moved half way through it, open a tab to search for something, then come back to the original tab and the page is rolled up to the top of the article.

 

 

 

Is anyone else experiencing this?

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Nov 8, 2015 8:04 AM

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Q: Safari Loses Page / Scroll Position When Changing Tabs

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  • by ShadowDancer1000,

    ShadowDancer1000 ShadowDancer1000 Nov 12, 2015 11:22 AM in response to ShadowDancer1000
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    Nov 12, 2015 11:22 AM in response to ShadowDancer1000

    Anyone else experiencing this issue?

     

    It's highly irritating.

  • by ShadowDancer1000,

    ShadowDancer1000 ShadowDancer1000 Jan 20, 2016 10:58 AM in response to ShadowDancer1000
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    Jan 20, 2016 10:58 AM in response to ShadowDancer1000

    I updated to 10.11.3 last night thinking a patch would have been included but no such luck.

    The problem in Safari when moving back and forth between tabs still exists.

     

    The only "fix" I have found is before leaving one tab, I have to physically left click anywhere on the page which seems to pin it to memory so when I come back to the tab the page position hasn't rolled back to wherever it was when I opened the tab.

     

    That's nice and all, but this is not the way it's supposed to work and again, if I forget to click before leaving the tab the page rewinds which can be very frustrating during a long document.

  • by Germancity,

    Germancity Germancity May 23, 2016 2:46 PM in response to ShadowDancer1000
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    May 23, 2016 2:46 PM in response to ShadowDancer1000

    I've encountered this exact same problem in recent weeks. It was hard to catch at first; I doubted my memory when returning to a tab. But it is certainly a bug.

  • by ShadowDancer1000,

    ShadowDancer1000 ShadowDancer1000 Sep 20, 2016 3:28 PM in response to Germancity
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    Sep 20, 2016 3:28 PM in response to Germancity

    Update:

    I just updated to MacOS (OSX Sierra) today and this buy appears to have been fixed in the release.

     

    Thus far I have not had any issues with the page losing the scrolled position I last left it in when switching back and forth between tabs.