Do you use a first gen iPad?

[awoke_in_2003]

Not sure where to put this, so I will do it here. Not long ago I lost my star, and cannot afford to replace it at this time. Without a star, reading DU is a nightmare. Half the time I come here the ads totally choke up my first gen iPad. Pages will half load and lock up. I have had it lock up so hard I had to restart it. Ad blockers are only available for iOS 7, which cannot run on my device. I considered just staying away from DU, because it was so damn annoying. If you are in this boat, try the free Mercury browser. DU has been pleasant all day (so far).

[dawg]

1. Threads with lots of embedded youtube videos crash.

Other than that, my first gen iPad handles DU pretty well.

[awoke_in_2003]

2. It doesn't happen every day...

but it is, for me, enough to be annoying. I was going to get the Firefox suite, but that was $5. Mercury was free.

[Kali]

8. you can get a star for that

maybe even less

I know how it can be when things are tight, though. Wish we could donate stars like on DU 2.

[awoke_in_2003]

9. That is why I went with Mercury...

it is a free download. I should be able to swing a star soon, though.

[surrealAmerican]

3. That crashes mine too ...

... or, at least, crashes the browser - also scaling up a page with even just one embedded video can crash.


The other ads are less of a problem, although they will slow down page loads, especially if they are animated ads.

[dawg]

4. Right. It's Safari that crashes. The iPad itself almost never crashes or locks up.

I just have to restart the browser and x out of the thread with all the vids.

[astral]

5. the problem isnt DU.

i browse without logging in until I wish to post something. I dont even notice the ads. you may not have your popup blockers functioning.

[blogslut]

6. I don't really have trouble when using a browser app.

But then, I avoid Safari and use Dolphin. I'll have to give Mercury a try.

Like others have said, it's when I encounter sites that use Flash or embed Flash-based Youtube videos that I get the black screen-to-home screen thing. Sites with a lot of scripts do it to me as well.

I keep hoping and searching for some Whited00r jailbreak thing that will let me force ios7 or at least, ios6 onto my iPad. I've been playing with it on my Gen 2 iPod Touch and I almost get it install ios7, then nope. I am gonna keep trying. I refuse to accept that machines that are less than ten years old are incapable of running reasonably recent operating systems. My laptop is an 8-year old Thinkpad T60 and it runs Windows 7 like a champ.

[awoke_in_2003]

7. I think some of the ads...

are flash, because it doesn't happen all the time. Today I am having no problems using Safari.