iPad Safari crashing regularly

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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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Feb 28, 2018 12:03 AM in response to Rob Bruen

Eqpt: Original OLD iPad, 64mb.

I have same problem. Although my crashes have now developed a pattern. (Example: editing a listing on eBay always causes crashing at exactly same spot, over and over.)

I have spoken to "AppleCare" numerous times. Everything they seems to help at the time, but soon after I encounter new websites that causes new crashes.

I finally took my iPad to APPLE STORE and gav the problem to a GENIUS to solve. He prayed over my Pad, spoke some technical mumbo jumbo, went to the BACK ROOM, reformatted my iPad and declared my AppleCare Coverage void because I had dented the aluminum back when dropped on carpet.

I guess the definition of AppleCare is: You have coverage until something goes wrong, than we find a scratch, or dent and declare your coverage VOID because you are to be punished for not being perfect.

Problem unsolved!

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Feb 28, 2018 12:03 AM in response to PilotSmith

I hate to be such a Dufus, but what is a DFU restore?

And when you go home to reinstall your applications, music, and all your life's work from your IMAC's Safari, what exactly are you NOT SUPPOSED TO DO?

Thanks for slowing down a bit.

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red555

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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?

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Moanjam

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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 ?

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Rob Bruen Author

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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.)

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Rmdz

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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

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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?

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cmo44

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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.

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bearduk

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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.

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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.

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Adam HH

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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.

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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

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TheEdge7

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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

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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)

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TheEdge7

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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.

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