Getting tired of safari crashing on my iPad

[Statelymwhite]

Safari crashes a lot on my Ipad.1, too. Disabling Java seems to stop it, but too many sites use Java, so that's not really an option.

For $500 these things should "just work". I'd expect this from a Windows tablet, but not from Apple.

 

[jtamac]

Same problem on my iPad under IOS 5.01.

 

[donnaw]

I've been experiencing a lot of crashes lately on mt iPad 2. I cleared history, data and cookies and it hasn't helped. I cleared all apps from the multitask area and it didn't help either. Checked the log and I'm getting low memory also. I never had crashes prior to this last update. I really hope the next update addresses I hate to have to relog in to every site I use and reset up all my preferences just to be able to use the browser daily.

 

[WesCole]

For people who have the Safari crashing issue...do you have private browsing enabled? I noticed the crashing after I enabled private browsing.

 

[Shadyriley]

How many tabs do you open up? It only crashes on me if I have too man tabs open at once. Well it used to back when I used Safari, honestly why would you even use it when there are much better browsers. Download Atomic web browser you'll never go back.

 

[rdstoll]

When the hell is Apple going to fix this problem? Safari on my iPad 1 crashes constantly in safari due to low memory. I've done a restore and cleaned everything up to no avail. Was the a purposeful "bug" on their part to compel people to throw in the towel and get an iPad 2/3?

Imagine if Microsoft did a software update and your computer kept crashing. The tech community would be aghast and ripping them. But apple does it blatantly and skates?

Any reliable fix?

 

[JWSandi]

When the hell is Apple going to fix this problem

As far as I can tell, from reading other forums including a 62 page long thread on the appe website community forms, not a damn thing.

Cuz here it is June and even more people are now experiencing these random crashes, mostly while using safari.

 

[faroZ06]

It's been fine on the iPhone 4 running iOS 5. However, it frequently crashed when I had AdBlock installed (which apparently does not work at all).

 

[h00ligan]

Adblock works great. There are two though. Free an paid. Free is garbage.

 

[topocalypse]

Ironically, Safari crashed on my iPad 1 as I read this thread!

Safari crashes frequently now under iOS 5. I suspect that it now runs out of memory more frequently because the OS takes more memory to start with, but that's only a guess.

Annoying but not disastrous yet. Maybe iPad 3 will have 4GB memory!

Mine too. It's definitely the lack of ram that causes crashes. Apple knew they had nothing to improve for iPad 2-3 so they put too little ram on the first one so that they can force people to upgrade later I think.

 

[kaielement]

Safari never crashes on my iPad 2 or my iPhone 4 and I spend loads of time on both and have the max number of tabs open no problem. Sounds like a software issue and I would dare ask if restoring the device helped at all