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Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by Crontab on Sunday September 16, 2018 @08:14AM (#17998545)
"Seems like on restart Safari wants to revisit previously opened pages"

I've always found that behavior annoying. If I want to revisit the last page, I can find it in history.

Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by matkins on Sunday September 16, 2018 @08:35AM (#17998628)
I'm sure you're in the absolute minority. Most people want all apps, including the browser, to stay the way they were when they closed them, even after a reboot
Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by sethammons on Sunday September 16, 2018 @09:24AM (#17998792)
I sure as heck want my tabs back. But I'd settle for "restore tabs" as I have to do that a lot in chrome on my MacBook Pro. On my Android, the tabs are just there and I really appreciate it. I have over a dozen tabs open on my phone and two dozen on my laptop.
Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by LoSboccacc on Sunday September 16, 2018 @09:45AM (#17998898)
It’s very convenient, but isn’t that scenario better covered by hibernating the os? That covers all app and doesn’t require any app to have special behaviour coded in
Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by sethammons on Sunday September 16, 2018 @10:37AM (#17999140)
If I never had to restart, sure. I have to restart my laptop weekly at least. Heck, it locked up twice last week opening Diablo 3 forcing a hard power cycle. My phone gets restarted less often but still gets into odd states where a reboot is needed.
Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by LoSboccacc on Sunday September 16, 2018 @03:08PM (#18000481)
tangential, but check out that your power supply is ok, that's the second most common source of random lockups during load (I assume drivers are up to date, that'd be the first)
Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by ams6110 on Sunday September 16, 2018 @09:24AM (#17998791)
Me too. I want a blank page when I open my browser. If I reboot a device, I want nothing but base system running when it restarts.
Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by signal11 on Sunday September 16, 2018 @10:06AM (#17998993)
But that’s why you need a “safe start mode” where you can start the app with a clean slate. Several Microsoft Office apps do this now. Given iOS’s repeated “crash loop” issues you’d think they’d have learnt by now.
Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by 13of40 on Sunday September 16, 2018 @11:04AM (#17999265)
I'm in that minority too, I guess. There's nothing more grating than to explicitly close all tabs, only to be asked whether you want to open them again. For me, tabs are like this useless plaque that slowly accumulates and needs to be blown away every two or three days.
Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by reaperducer on Sunday September 16, 2018 @05:55PM (#18001381)
Yep. I know someone who keeps dozens and dozens of tabs open on an iPhone. It's kind of like a bookmark library.

I explained that there is a bookmark feature just for this sort of thing, but when you're used to doing something one way, change can be slow.

Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by bdcravens on Sunday September 16, 2018 @10:20AM (#17999055)
That always bothers me. What if a page was (dumbly) in a state that makes a change I don't want?
Re:A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iP... by stestagg on Sunday September 16, 2018 @09:10AM (#17998747)
Do you have data for this? I'm also in the absolute minority