Tabs Refresh Automatically in Safari 5.1?

It was maddening - kept happening on every tab I'd click on until the latest 5.1.4 update...which stopped it...so far. It was listed as a bug fix on that update, so clearly they were aware of it.

I am also having the page refresh issue with Safari 5.1.4 on Lion. Safari will spontaneously refresh all of my pages. This is particularly annoying with Flash apps, as the apps often reset themselves when this happens. The issue seems to happen most when I am low on memory (running a lot of applications).

These are the add-ons I have (automatic updates for add-ons are enabled):

Page One

ClickToFlash

Fireballed

Here is the message that showed up in the Console during the lass mass-refresh of my Safari tabs:

Mar 23 11:55:00 jensen ReportCrash[1417]: Saved crash report for WebProcess[1310] version 7534.54 (7534.54.16) to /Users/jensen/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/WebProcess_2012-03-23-115500_jense n.crash

I believe this will fix your problem:

http://stormchild.tumblr.com/post/10414883514/how-to-stop-safari-5-from-unexpect edly-reloading-pages

Worked for me! 🙂

nudo989 wrote:

I believe this will fix your problem:

http://stormchild.tumblr.com/post/10414883514/how-to-stop-safari-5-from-unexpect edly-reloading-pages

Worked for me! 🙂

Is this for Mac or Windows? I'm running Windows. It also looks like it's for touch screens or iOS devices. This is for a Windows 7 Acer Aspire running Windows Safari 5.1

When I put this in:

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu 1

I get "Page cannot be found"

What now? 😟

This is for Mac only, dunno about Windows.

You put this into terminal, not your internet browser.

Sorry I´cant help you:/

ANNOYING ANNOYING.!!!!!!!! And why do you have do many version of all animalks??? My MacAir is Tiger!! my iMac is Lion and my Macbook is leopard!! Right now I want to kill all the animals!APPLE - you are supposed to provide convenience and ease of use but as a loyal Mac user, I am having to learn 3 different OS and the track pads are all different. ANd this ANNOYING Safari 5.1 has just wasted hours of my tiume. I swear I will deinstall this rediculous and totallyt amateur product of yours that is running in the "animal kingdom".

Has Apple officially ackknowledged this issue? Its a huge inconvenience. And can a mod edit the OP? The issue occurs when simply surfing the web for most people here, the OP actually reset Safari to cause the reload, which is obviously whats causing his problem.

I'm a bit surprised this wasn't fixed in 10.7.4, come on apple pull your finger out!

yeah it's been more than 12 months since this problem first shows up, why doesn't apple do anything about it?

Yes, this is absurd, and an insult to all their loyal customers.... I would love to go back to 5.1, as I "downgraded" Safari, back to the non-buggy 5.0.5. Not being the most up-to-date, some streaming media won't work (so I use FF or Chrome), but at least it doesn't have this annoying issue, or the wack "auto-fill" that doesn't auto-fill, etc... Why they don't fix these things is pretty inexplicable.

Apparently it's expected behavior, Apple did this on purpose. They're trying to make Lion behave like iOS, and the pages in Safari auto refresh in the same fashion. For some reason Apple considers that better performance, it's ridiculous and extremely easy for them to fix.

It's not true. It starts reloading because the WebKit processes crashes. Either by a hanging page (which asks you to force reload, en then: kaboom), or by opening too much tabs, or by opening a few tabs too fast if you already have a lot of tabs open. It is very annoying. What's even more annoying is that OSX and Safari is swapping anonymous pages, pages you are actually using, to swap while there is plenty of available/inactive memory free. And another annoying one is that when flash player crashes, it is not restarted untill you quit and restart safari (you'll get a black box instead). All this stuff is really really REALLY annoying me.

APPLE - FIX IT.

This stuff should have been fixed a year ago. I'm really thinking about going back to FreeBSD as I only switched because stuff on OSX always 'just worked' for me (no mess to get wifi to work etc). And since Lion this is not true anymore: wifi is unstable, safari starts refreshing/hanging and not restarting flash, the paging algorythm is HORRIBLE, MIDI is seriously broken, mtmd/mds does not play nice when you are doing heavy IO and needs to be manually disabled/tweaked so it doesn't interfere with your work, ... can you tell all this stuff is really annoying me???

Exactly. I hate all the other browsers, so I'm just reinstalling Snow Leopard and will keep checking this thread to see if this issue ever gets fixed. I'll go back to Lion if it ever does.

I recently gave up on Safari. It's just not sufficiently stable for me. I like to open multiple tabs, but with Safari (at least on my machine) if I open too many tabs, the browser will hang at the most inopportune moment. To prevent this from happening, I have to close and reopen the browser periodically, which is just a pain.

I swtiched (back) to Camino, but quickly learned that there are too many websites that Camino cannot properly render. Plus it gets sluggish when one opens multiple tabs.

So now I have adopted Chrome as my regular browser. It's taking me a little bit to get used to it, but at least I am finding it more stable than either Safari or Camino.