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Tabs Refresh Automatically in Safari 5.1?

Why do tabs automatically refresh in Safari 5.1?


Try this: Have at least ten websites in different tabs in the same window. Go to "Reset Safari..." in the "Safari" menu. Uncheck the "Close all Safari windows" and then click "Reset". What the **** Apple.


Also, the spinning beach ball of death does not appear when I move the mouse to the bookmark bars or toolbar. Why?

Posted on Jul 21, 2011 2:24 PM

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Jul 26, 2011 6:15 AM in response to CHIU4

This just happened to me.


It's an unnacceptable behavior on a desktop browser. I lost chats from GMail and page states from websites that dynamically inform you of new content. Once I clicked the tab to see those sites Safari decided to COMPLETELY reload the page for me which is a behavior I do not want or need.


There has to be a setting to remove this behavior.

Jul 26, 2011 9:23 AM in response to CHIU4

Getting the exact same thing happening (10.6.8). Absolutely unacceptable. I've been the last holdout in my office tauting Safari as a stable browser. Going to have to switch over to Firefox until this is resolved in order to do my job. I can't even stay logged into my CMS or SiteSpect because as soon as I swap over to another tab and come back, it reloads. So frustrating.

Jul 26, 2011 11:44 AM in response to CHIU4

Same issue here - under 10.4-10.6 I used to work with 30-40 tabs in 3-4 windows without issues (have 8GB RAM so Safari taking up a gig or two is NBD) but this reload thing has to stop. It is still using 1GB for 10 tabs! This feels like an iPhone even though the OS has 16x more RAM and a 3x faster CPU...


Going to have to switch to FF until this is a configurable option.

Aug 1, 2011 7:58 PM in response to Eifuku

Me too. Just chiming in to say I am experiencing the same thing (refresh or reload in all windows). I'll try to pay attention next time and see if it is a reload or just a refresh. In any case, content is lost in windows.


May be related to the "Safari Web Content" process dieing and restarting.


Let's hope a fix is in the works.

Aug 2, 2011 9:22 AM in response to CHIU4

I experience the exact same issue. If you open the console, you should see Webkit2 WebProcess crash (Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread) each time the tabs are unexpetedly refreshed. This is a really annoying bug in effect and disabling Java doesn't look to change anything.


I could determine when it happens for me (reproducible anytime):

• an OTF font-face CSS directive

• a select form element

• each time I click on such an element, the Webkit2 WebProcess crashes…


Be aware that this bug may prevent your users to use forms if they use Safari 5.1.


The only solution I found to get rid of this bug on one website of mine consists in getting rid of .eot font-face directive. But anytime you will visit a website with such fonts, you may get this bug that crashes all opened tabs and you won't be able to submit any form whenever it includes a select box. Since all tabs are getting reloaded, it can make your computer really slow if you had many tabs opened.


This is the worst bug I ever could experience with Safari, I hope they'll fix it right away.

Aug 3, 2011 7:50 AM in response to CHIU4

Indeed, this is crazy. I've been using the nightlies up until recently, too, when they suddenly became unusable; I guess I figured Apple would get things worked out before pushing the bugs into production, but oops.


I really hate this, as i've been a huge fan of Safari since its introduction, but alas, I'm using Chrome now. Sigh...

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