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iPad web browser crashing when replying to a message

  • 07-10-2012 5:03pm
    #1
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭


    I was right at the end of replying to a pretty long PM here and safari on my iPad crashed and when it reloaded, I lost everything I had written.

    Anyway to recover what I had written or a way to prevent it happening in future?
    It's the most annoying thing and it's happened a good few times on me.


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  • #2
    FourFourRED
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,937 ✭✭✭FourFourRED


    Try Chrome in future?

    https://twitter.com/fourfourred



  • #3
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    Aodhagan wrote: »
    Try Chrome in future?

    Does it make a diffrence and save what you've written though? On a laptop it does but I'm not sure about a tablet.


  • #4
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    1ZRed wrote: »
    Does it make a diffrence and save what you've written though? On a laptop it does but I'm not sure about a tablet.

    Well it could be more reliable for starters
    And I don't know about Safari but Chrome does offer an option to restore all tabs, whether it will restore what you typed I don't know and I can't force a crash :o I'll find out next time it crashes I guess


  • #5
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    I just downloaded chrome on it and I typed something out then refreshed the page and hit the back and then forward buttons. No it doesn't save it either.

    Seems like a flaw with them. I'll know for again to do any long typing on a laptop when at least this wouldn't happen and I'd be able to recover it again.


  • #6
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    1ZRed wrote: »
    I just downloaded chrome on it and I typed something out then refreshed the page and hit the back and then forward buttons. No it doesn't save it either.

    Seems like a flaw with them. I'll know for again to do any long typing on a laptop when at least this wouldn't happen and I'd be able to recover it again.

    Well it's not really practical but you could copy the text every few lines..I do that out of paranoia sometimes :P


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  • #7
    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    I don't have an iPad but try the Opera web browser. It could just be a limitation you'll have to live with but in general I find that Opera doesn't crash very much on any platform I've used it on and when it does, it recovers all tabs (don't know about text on a form).

    Do any browsers support extensions on iPad?


  • #8
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    thebman wrote: »
    I don't have an iPad but try the Opera web browser. It could just be a limitation you'll have to live with but in general I find that Opera doesn't crash very much on any platform I've used it on and when it does, it recovers all tabs (don't know about text on a form).

    Do any browsers support extensions on iPad?

    All browsers on iOS are, in essence masks of Safari which is unquestionably the default browser on all Apple devices.

    Due to these restrictions placed by Apple, you won't see much variations in browsers in the App Store, it they weren't in place companies like Google and Opera would be able to unleash their true products


  • #9
    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    Nimrod 7 wrote: »
    All browsers on iOS are, in essence masks of Safari which is unquestionably the default browser on all Apple devices.

    Due to these restrictions placed by Apple, you won't see much variations in browsers in the App Store, it they weren't in place companies like Google and Opera would be able to unleash their true products

    Well Opera does make use of the Turbo servers to compress content and reformat sites on their servers before they are sent to the iPad so it might help with some issues but probably not in this instance.

    Opera Turbo can also act as a proxy to get around website blocks on networks such as Facebook or Boards.ie on a corporate network ;)


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