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YES! 3.2.1 fixes Safari

In their WWDC Safari keynote they opened:

Vimeo.com (video page)
NPR.com (home page)
Life.com (picture gallery)
Nike.com (product gallery)
Virgin.com (home page)

on the iPad simultaneously complete with media.

If I can get anywhere near that with 3.2.1, I'll be excited. Downloading now.
 
Kahnyl said:
How could expect a "fix"? All they can do is improve it. You're always going to run into sites that flush the other pages. I've even had reloads and crashes on my iPhone 4 already.

They did improve it a lot. I'm still able to load more than twice the amount of pages I was before.
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Yes, tab reloading in 3.2.1 is much better.
 
Confirmed after 6h of usage that Safari is doing a much better job of caching.

In my past experience with 3.2 Endaget aways re-loaded or causes other web-pages to reload and I could only have about 2-3 tabs open without a reload.

Had as many as 8 tabs open with regular surfing and no reloading of any of them including one of them being engadget, one picasa and a few other news sites.

Very nice.
 
I'm assuming you folks do know that some sites automatically refresh to update content or swap ads, right?

So, when you go back to a page, the session time has elapsed and says let me go get new data.

This is less noticeable in environments where each tab can have an active thread and continually download.
 
Haven't noticed an improvement but I guess it could be a subtle change that saves a refresh every once in a while.
 
It DEFINITELY has been fixed!


I frequent the same three sites every night and just before the update it was refreshing as I "toggled" between them. Since the update it hasn't refreshed once. Not a single time as it always has Every night for 2.5 months, since "late April."


LOVING IT!
 
Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A293 Safari/6531.22.7)

Nice to get something that works well from Apple. It's been a while. The Safari cache fix breathes new life into the iPad. I like to browse eBay and open auctions in new pages. Refreshing on each page switch was getting very old.
 
Hmm. Reloading seems to be creeping back in. :(
I think we'll have to wait for 4.x for it to work properly, as it does on the iPhone.
 
for me 3.2.1 fixes WiFi issues such as Flickering Signal display, Connecting..., and password requesting. Doesn't stop pages reloading when you go back to them.
 
billyjoegibsonx said:
for me 3.2.1 fixes WiFi issues such as Flickering Signal display, Connecting..., and password requesting. Doesn't stop pages reloading when you go back to them.
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Glad it fixes those things. The wifi flickering definitely affects the loading of pages, as I can see the page stop loading as it flickers. I wonder if we can now leave the brightness at the lowest setting now, too? Previously this stopped wifi auto-connecting.
 
MacRumorUser said:
But why ? I mean you can't read 9 pages at once so why do you need 9 open ? :confused:
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I like to leave some sites up all the time because I check them regularly. Other times, I have stuff I want to read but not the time, and it's nice to leave it open in a tab until I have time to come back to Safari and read it. I have hit the 9-tab limit on several occasions.
 
heavensblade23 said:
By that logic we don't need tabs at all since you can only look at one page at a time.
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ooo tetchy aren't we. Did someone piss in your cornflakes this morning ;)


calvin2006 said:
I like to leave some sites up all the time because I check them regularly. Other times, I have stuff I want to read but not the time, and it's nice to leave it open in a tab until I have time to come back to Safari and read it. I have hit the 9-tab limit on several occasions.
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I can fully understand having multiple tabs open - but 9 just seemed a little 'excessive' that's all.

Even with my desktop I myself rarely have more than 3-4 open. I just genuinely wondered why 9 that's all :)
 
Just throwing in my 2 cents but Safari is actually behaving better now. I would do periodic restarts and it wouldn't make a difference with Safari. Gizmodo or Engadget plus loading one article would wipe out the main page. It was horrible. After installing the update last night and using my iPad this morning, I can now open Engadget and load one article without Engadget needing a refresh. Yes, I have run other apps besides Safari.
 
So far, I am noticing Safari feels a bit faster and page reloading is much reduced.

Also, I haven't got the "connecting" message in a day's use, which I used to get several times a day with my home router.

So it's been a worthwhile update for me.
 
heavensblade23 said:
Trust me, it's not fixed, though it might be improved depending on what kind of sites you browse.
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I wouldn't use the word "fixed". It's improved but not a whole lot. I have the iPhone 4 (for now) and it's nowhere even close. Safari on the iPad will save 3-4 sites depending on size (and sometimes less). Safari on my iPhone 4 currently has 9 pages open and
is not reloading.

It's really a sad cost cutting move that Apple made to go with 256mb of ram. I'm actually thinking of selling it as we get closer to the release of the successor. The lack of ram may be more mental than anything, but it really bothers me....

Edit:

I just had two tabs open (forum sites) and it wasn't even able to switch between those. Seems like it is worse than when I first upgraded. Maybe it was better before because it was just reset....oh well, at least the WIFI is fixed
 
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