Cleared History, Now Tabs Load Blank

Thank you for your contribution.

You're correct about my new tabs opening with Top Sites. I have not changed that default setting. I didn't reset Top Sites, either. The Top Sites feature still populates a new tab with sites relevant to my search patterns.

I cleared the Safari history. I did not reset Top Sites.

Regardless, neither of those should wipe clean the tabs I had open.

The problem Safari is experiencing is a sudden loss of tab data. All the tabs I had open no longer load the web page that was on them. In their place loads a blank tab, or the tabs load as though it was a new tab and so displays a "Top Sites" view. It's a mix of the two.

My Safari web browser is not experiencing any problems with the Top Sites functionality.

The problem is that Safari is failing to restore my session of tabs as a result of having the history cleared.

Although the number of tabs I had open remains the same, they are all now either a blank page with the web site title in the tab, or are a new tab with "Top Sites" in the window of the tab.

Considering that this has not happened to me before, and considering that I have changed no configuration settings:

-Clearing the history should NOT affect the saved tabs.

-Tabs that have not been closed should not appear blank or as a "Top Sites" page the next time the web browser is opened, even if the history is cleared.

-Upon clearing the history, the tabs should not fail to load the web page they once hosted the next time the web browser is opened.

-Clearing the history should only clear the history, not the saved tabs as well.

I mentioned research on DNA to help eliminate the consideration of viruses from sordid sites.

"I'm trying to reproduce the problem ... I opened this page, then I opened a new tab in the same window. It was populated with Top Sites. I quit and relaunched Safari without closing the window. The same window opened with the same content."

That's indeed what normally happens with my Safari 6.0.5.

The problem occured only after clearing my history and closing Safari (I didn't close Safari imediatly after clearing the history). Upon opening Safari, all the tabs failed to load properly.

andyBall_uk,

One is inclined to gather, then, that this is a known issue that Apple is disinclined to resolve at a reasonable pace seeing as how it has been around since version 5.1.10. I'm typing this response from a FireFox web browser, now.

Not really because my tab activity has changed too much since my last Time Machine backup. I might get a few tabs back, but restoring from a backup will only recover some of the tabs. However, some tabs are better than none I suppose.