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

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Jan 27, 2014 2:08 AM in response to Rob Bruen

I am an old time Windows user(since windows 1.0) and I really am used to bad software as a direct result of marketing. The browser(Safari,Chrome) crashing issues on current IOS are symptoms of a vendor who really doesn't give **** about their customers with problems, because they must allocate their billions for new gadgets to new customers.

I have made an honest attempt to switch to Apple for the past 5 years with thousands of dollars of investment, but also kept up with Windows. I can honestly say that I have never seen such a blatant disregard for customer satisfaction on the MS platform and have the vendor survive. I am having a hard time with a platform where the technology foundation is crashing and there is not even a hint that there maybe a fix in the near future.

Jan 27, 2014 6:37 AM in response to VLSI_Frank

I agree... Apple has let Millions of ppl down ...MILLIONS not just a couple of IPads or a couple of ppl ...Millions of ppl millions of iPad,,, iPods ,,,anything Apple at this point ....I need a new tablet and I will be ****** if I buy a new Apple ...I own two CRASH PADS ..after Apple left me out to dry and just take my money ..never ever will I buy Apple again ...they don't care about the ppl ...I'm sorry ...I really liked my iPad until It became Crash pad ..I'm not sure if this post will stay b/c Apple don't like bad post About the Crashing IPad ..I will get a Reply Saying that some owns a iPad and it don't crash..I find that to be untruthful ...I have friends that have the same problem ..right up to iPad Air the newest one... Apple Fix the problem and fix this with the ppl that buy or have bought your IPads

Jan 27, 2014 7:21 AM in response to Len237

I have an iPad mini1 which started crashing with Safari shortly after updating to IOS 7.0.4. This went on for months - hard resets, calls to Apple, to no avail. Then I turned off Safari in the iCloud setting, cleared cache and history in Safari settings. It has worked ever since even though I turned Safari back in iCloud setting. I have no idea whether my tinkering was responsible, but it's worked OK for a month and a half with no crashes. I am at a loss to explain this. IOS 7.1 is out in Feb - maybe that'll fix things for everyone. Good luck!

Jan 27, 2014 7:47 AM in response to Len237

I do not want to place all the blame on these vendors who wants to stand in isolation from the rest and doesn't want others in their sand box, because they think that they can be sole provider of every whim and desire to all lemmings(oops! I mean customers) out there.


Yes, WE ARE LEMMINGS.

- We buy a new widget, that will probably not work for what we want(just read all the fine print).

- We allow the vendor to tell us what we "need".

- Vendor will hide behind a lot of procedures and level 1 "support" staff.

- Vendor has no intention of fixing anything that was just released, they need you to "upgrade".

- We gather in little groups and attempt fixes that more than likely will not work for every one.

- We keep coming back or better said "jump off the cliff".


Ohh YES, WE ARE LEMMINGS!!!!

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