Official iPad Thread

[JCL]

Since I have you experts here...

When browsing this forum with Safari on a 32 gB iPad 2, it closes by itself quite often. I can reopen it, but it usually closes when I am doing a short response like this one. Then I lose whatever I typed and have to start over. Why does it happen?

Edit now that I am on a PC with a keyboard: As an example, it closed twice while typing the above paragraph. I lost the text each time. I generally don't type more than two sentences on the iPad before submitting, then I use edit post, and add two sentences at a time, resubmitting several times. It is a workaround, and a clumsy one, but it saves retyping quite as much.

I Googled "iPad Safari closing unexpectedly" and got over one million hits. I did a search of the Apple forums. They seem to know all about Safari closing unexpectedly on the iPad 2, there are lots of threads on it. The consensus appears to be that it is a memory management issue, related to Webkit (don't know what that is), and that no solution will be forthcoming until Apple releases one. If that is it, at least I'm not the only one. I'll just sit back and enjoy it's ease of use, seamless integration with other Apple products, quality manufacturing, excellent customer service, free product training and a host of other advantages made possible by a closed system, lol. Should I expect an update to the operating system, or am I supposed to line up for an iPad 3?

So, in the meantime, it isn't usable for filling in text boxes, but it is a decent reader.