Rob Bruen
Level 1 (1 points)

Q: iPad Safari crashing regularly

Safari on my iPad is crashing fairly frequently; sometimes when I restart it retains the pages that were previously open, and sometimes not.

Have not yet established a pattern, but it seems prevalent on very large pages (for example pages with many images) and on pages with embedded video (particularly Flash).

Anyone else experiencing the same issue and/or have any further information? Anybody using a browser other than Safari on the iPad?

Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Jun 14, 2010 12:29 PM

Close
Rob Bruen

Q: iPad Safari crashing regularly

  • All replies
  • Helpful answers

Page 1 of 117 last Next

  • by red555,

    red555 red555 Jun 14, 2010 2:59 PM in response to Rob Bruen
    Level 4 (2,561 points)
    iPhone
    Jun 14, 2010 2:59 PM in response to Rob Bruen
    The iPad will not do web pages utilizing Flash.

    Does the same pages tend to crash or is it more random?

  • by Moanjam,

    Moanjam Moanjam Jun 14, 2010 4:36 PM in response to Rob Bruen
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Jun 14, 2010 4:36 PM in response to Rob Bruen
    This happens also to my iPad, it seems to be when there are a lot of photo or pictures within the web page. Anyone else ?

  • by Rob Bruen,

    Rob Bruen Rob Bruen Jun 15, 2010 3:29 PM in response to red555
    Level 1 (1 points)
    Jun 15, 2010 3:29 PM in response to red555
    Generally pages utilizing Flash are properly rendered, although obviously the Flash object itself is missing. The crash happens randomly, although it's most common on pages with many pictures (blogs etc.)

  • by Rmdz,

    Rmdz Rmdz Jun 15, 2010 11:11 PM in response to Rob Bruen
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Jun 15, 2010 11:11 PM in response to Rob Bruen
    My safari crashes when I try to play YouTube videos, seems like it wants to switch to built in YouTube app but it just crashes... Anyone know how to fix this

  • by Turbojugend27,

    Turbojugend27 Turbojugend27 Jun 18, 2010 3:30 AM in response to Rob Bruen
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Jun 18, 2010 3:30 AM in response to Rob Bruen
    Happens ALL the time to me as well. Same circumstances, especially with Facebook. It starts loading the page and when it is almost finished back to the home screen I go. If I stop the loading right before the end, it doesn't crash.

    Tried a restore with a new setup, reset network settings, no difference.

    I am currently using atomic browser and perfect browser and I can't get them to crash in the same pages, they work flawlessly

    Any ideas?

  • by cmo44,

    cmo44 cmo44 Jun 18, 2010 8:40 AM in response to Turbojugend27
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Jun 18, 2010 8:40 AM in response to Turbojugend27
    Yep same here. Safari crashes many times per day on all sorts of websites. And in particularly on websites that contain embedded videos such as YouTube videos.

    But then Safari has always been unreliable - it's as bad on the iPhone.

    Restarts make no difference. This is clearly just buggy software.

  • by bearduk,

    bearduk bearduk Jun 22, 2010 3:11 PM in response to cmo44
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Jun 22, 2010 3:11 PM in response to cmo44
    Same here for me. It seems to happen on pages that have a number of images on them for me. Safari just cuts out and I get a blank screen for a second and then the iPad home screen. Sites like do:while that have a number of images seem to crash regularly.

  • by markdinvt,

    markdinvt markdinvt Jun 27, 2010 4:34 AM in response to Rob Bruen
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Jun 27, 2010 4:34 AM in response to Rob Bruen
    Same problem here. iPad's Safari dumps randomly and ever increasingly. Video and large photos seem to do it. That, is not very "magical". Fix now please.

  • by Adam HH,

    Adam HH Adam HH Jun 27, 2010 3:54 PM in response to markdinvt
    Level 1 (10 points)
    Jun 27, 2010 3:54 PM in response to markdinvt
    I'm having a similar problem except instead of crashing, the page will load completely, leaving a number of images unloaded. Makes surfing the web suck.

  • by dmazourick,

    dmazourick dmazourick Jul 1, 2010 7:02 AM in response to Adam HH
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Jul 1, 2010 7:02 AM in response to Adam HH
    Same happens to me with iPad and our home grown web application.
    No specific pages - sometimes everything works fine, sometimes just closes

  • by TheEdge7,

    TheEdge7 TheEdge7 Jul 6, 2010 2:51 PM in response to dmazourick
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Jul 6, 2010 2:51 PM in response to dmazourick
    Same problem here and it's becoming excessively annoying and frustrating. Each Time I surf with safari it comes accross a website that will make it crash. In this case if I restart it 5 or 6 times it eventually ends up loading the page. But sometimes it will crash constantly.
    The latest site I came accross that systematically crashes safari is : www.livebooks.com

  • by marconiusrex,

    marconiusrex marconiusrex Jul 8, 2010 9:26 PM in response to Turbojugend27
    Level 2 (345 points)
    Jul 8, 2010 9:26 PM in response to Turbojugend27
    You will probably need to get the free Facebook App and access FB that way rather than going to the FB website like you do on a notebook or desktop. (if you have not already)

  • by TheEdge7,

    TheEdge7 TheEdge7 Jul 12, 2010 3:50 PM in response to marconiusrex
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Jul 12, 2010 3:50 PM in response to marconiusrex
    Yes that's it. So we simply need a corresponding app for each and every website. Brilliant. Now that the problem is solved, Apple can stop developing safari for ipad.

  • by Basileos,

    Basileos Basileos Jul 22, 2010 5:51 AM in response to Rob Bruen
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Jul 22, 2010 5:51 AM in response to Rob Bruen
    Having the same issue here too, everything you've all said rings true to me. I can't seem to find a way of fixing it. For me though, this has mostly been since the 3.2.1 update.
Page 1 of 117 last Next