# Safari on iOS, you are a steaming pile **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 27, 2013, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safari-on-ios-you-are-a-steaming-pile/648497 "2013-01-27T01:03:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safari-on-ios-you-are-a-steaming-pile/648497/41 "2013-01-29T03:53:39Z")
> [@Paranoid\_Randroid](#): > > The real issue, unfortunately, is that the original iPad is (1) quite old hardware relative to the pace of improvements in its space, and (2) abandoned WRT software updates. If you think these problems uniquely affect Apple products then I’ve got a bridge to sell you. Or an Android device whose manufacturer has decreed will not be updated beyond the version it shipped with. Whichever. (The first person to tell me you could root such devices will be punished by having to explain said process to my mother.) Except, as the OP, I’ll call you full of shit since I don’t have an original iPad, I have an iPad 2. Which is a system with a 1GHz dual-core CPU with 512 MB of RAM. if such a system can’t keep a single fucking web page in RAM for less than one minute, then it is fucking broken by design. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safari-on-ios-you-are-a-steaming-pile/648497/42 "2013-01-29T14:52:21Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > Does this seriously not happen with an ipad 3? > [@Anonymous User](#): > > No, it doesn’t. I have one. I didn’t experience any issues with Safari. I had an iPad 1, and experienced the OP’s issue on more than one occasion to the point where I’d copy and paste my draft in a word editor or Notes before I opened another tab. I haven’t noticed this behavior on my iPad 3. I’ve never owned an iPad 2. Check out Atomic Web, Side by Side +, Mercury, or Skyfire if you no likey Chrome. ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safari-on-ios-you-are-a-steaming-pile/648497/43 "2013-01-29T15:37:18Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > Except, as the OP, I’ll call you full of shit since I don’t have an original iPad, I have an iPad 2. You can call me full of shit if you like, but please note that while you didn’t mention the iPad 1 other posters did. I don’t have an iPad 2 so I can’t evaluate your claims (although having been released less than a year after the first iPad I’d be unsurprised to find that it suffers from some of the same issues). > [@](#): > > Which is a system with a 1GHz dual-core CPU with 512 MB of RAM. if such a system can’t keep a single fucking web page in RAM for less than one minute, then it is fucking broken by design. Even my frustratingly slow iPad 1 with half the memory can usually do _that_ much. Without seeing it in action I can only suppose that you’re exaggerating for effect. ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safari-on-ios-you-are-a-steaming-pile/648497/44 "2013-01-29T15:41:07Z")
> [@Paranoid\_Randroid](#): > > Even my frustratingly slow iPad 1 with half the memory can usually do _that_ much. I want to make sure to point out the key word there: usually. I definitely notice the behavior on the iPad 1, it just doesn’t usually kick in if I switch one tab and back. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safari-on-ios-you-are-a-steaming-pile/648497/45 "2013-01-29T16:43:27Z")
> [@Paranoid\_Randroid](#): > > Even my frustratingly slow iPad 1 with half the memory can usually do _that_ much. Without seeing it in action I can only suppose that you’re exaggerating for effect. He’s not exaggerating. I’m posting from an iPad 2 right now. I had two tabs open, and opened a third, and came back to this page, which reloaded. I’ve never lost a post from this behavior, but that’s more luck than anything else. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/safari-on-ios-you-are-a-steaming-pile/648497.md?page=2)