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YES! 3.2.1 fixes Safari
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This was an awesome update. I am so pumped they fixed this finally, one of my biggest issues with the iPhone.
It is not at all fixed. People who have not seen their multiple pages reload yet is because they just got a fresh install and reboot within few hours of updating. I am a power user with big sites open all the time and youtubing. After a few days it starts recaching each page.
Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7E18 Safari/528.16)
Haha. Now I just feel weak...
antiprotest said:
Haha. Now I just feel weak...
The 2 cents experience of a web developer:
Even before this update, I were always testing how many websites, but more important, what kind of websites were refreshed having more tab opened. This helps me to figure out the real weight of a webpage.
Now I can definitively say that, at least for me, the page refreshing is improved. I can switch without refreshing between four websites - three blogs, including the heavy Engadget, and my personal website, that is heavy too.
And if I visit only simple or light websites like Facebook, I can even switch between five websites.
Being a web developer, I daily visit the best awarded websites and portfolios in the world, and they are very heavy websites, probably the heaviest of the entire web. They also include PNG images plus alpha channel, the heaviest images on the web.
Before the update, I could rarely visit two of those websites at the same time without refreshing while jumping from one to another.
Now I definitely can switch without refreshing even between three of these kind of websites.
So, I don't know why some users can't see even a minimal improvement, but I can see it. It's obviously not perfect, but it's definitely been improved.
And I can say WHERE it has been improved: I figured out that now long and heavy pages are rendered only in the part you are watching. So it saves in the RAM only a small part of the website, not the whole website.
This method can keep more RAM free. It's the same method implemented in Atomic Browser.
In Atomic Browser, in fact, the more tabs you have, the smaller is the part of each page that is rendered.
I hope this could help.
My really two cents.
Even before this update, I were always testing how many websites, but more important, what kind of websites were refreshed having more tab opened. This helps me to figure out the real weight of a webpage.
Now I can definitively say that, at least for me, the page refreshing is improved. I can switch without refreshing between four websites - three blogs, including the heavy Engadget, and my personal website, that is heavy too.
And if I visit only simple or light websites like Facebook, I can even switch between five websites.
Being a web developer, I daily visit the best awarded websites and portfolios in the world, and they are very heavy websites, probably the heaviest of the entire web. They also include PNG images plus alpha channel, the heaviest images on the web.
Before the update, I could rarely visit two of those websites at the same time without refreshing while jumping from one to another.
Now I definitely can switch without refreshing even between three of these kind of websites.
So, I don't know why some users can't see even a minimal improvement, but I can see it. It's obviously not perfect, but it's definitely been improved.
And I can say WHERE it has been improved: I figured out that now long and heavy pages are rendered only in the part you are watching. So it saves in the RAM only a small part of the website, not the whole website.
This method can keep more RAM free. It's the same method implemented in Atomic Browser.
In Atomic Browser, in fact, the more tabs you have, the smaller is the part of each page that is rendered.
I hope this could help.
My really two cents.
Crash
That is fine but since the update both my iPad and iPhone keep crashing, even in Safari. I never had this problem on either device until this update.
That is fine but since the update both my iPad and iPhone keep crashing, even in Safari. I never had this problem on either device until this update.
I've had the exact opposite experience. Safari used to crash on a lot of websites like Engadget, Gizmodo, and it was almost a 50% chance of crashing whenever I tried to watch an embedded video. After the update, I have net to crash viewing anything on Safari.
Hmm. I was feeling like the refresh issue was sorted when I first installed the update, but something tells me there's a nasty memory leak in Safari. I generally only use 2 pages at a time...A, with the main page I'm looking at, and B, to view links opened from A. As time goes on, I find that returning to page A eventually elicits a reload, unless I either force quit Safari or reboot.
It fixed the dropping issue, and a video loading issue. Now that the video thing is fixed I can watch YouTube videos now not having to wait forever for them to buffer!