On iOS 7, whenever you open a third tab (sometimes even second, sometimes fourth) and go back to the first tab in your browser (Safari), the page will reload. I found this infuriating on my Retina Mini, not the least because I used to have an iPad 2 with half the RAM that could open more browser tabs at once in iOS 6. I also had Android tablets that could have many more tabs open at once without them needing to be reloaded.
I asked around, and true enough others faced the same issue as well on their iPads. On my iPad 2 on iOS 7, it behaves the same was as my Mini Retina. Funny, cause you'd expect with double the RAM, the Mini Retina should be able to open many more tabs at once.
This is arguably the biggest issue I have with my iPad Mini Retina and iOS 7, cause I am a person who usually has 4+ tabs open at once.
May I kindly ask anyone who has iOS 8 on their iPads now...is this situation improved? Seeing that the newest iPhones are still on 1GB of RAM (yay!), I'd imagine they would have optimized Safari better, or if it was a bug causing this issue, fixed the bug.
Cheers!
PS: Also, it is worth mentioning that I experience Safari crashes at least twice a day. I use the browser quite a lot for reading (maybe 2 - 3 hours a day), but still even on the "buggier" Android or iOS6 for my iPad 2, I never faced crashes as often.
I asked around, and true enough others faced the same issue as well on their iPads. On my iPad 2 on iOS 7, it behaves the same was as my Mini Retina. Funny, cause you'd expect with double the RAM, the Mini Retina should be able to open many more tabs at once.
This is arguably the biggest issue I have with my iPad Mini Retina and iOS 7, cause I am a person who usually has 4+ tabs open at once.
May I kindly ask anyone who has iOS 8 on their iPads now...is this situation improved? Seeing that the newest iPhones are still on 1GB of RAM (yay!), I'd imagine they would have optimized Safari better, or if it was a bug causing this issue, fixed the bug.
Cheers!
PS: Also, it is worth mentioning that I experience Safari crashes at least twice a day. I use the browser quite a lot for reading (maybe 2 - 3 hours a day), but still even on the "buggier" Android or iOS6 for my iPad 2, I never faced crashes as often.
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