iPad 7.1.2 browser crashing ...

[DelJo63]

Mobile device UA

   Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 7_1_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11D257 Safari/9537.53

Note: that's Safari

Last useful URL
https://www.techspot.com/community/find-new/37589153/posts

Fails on URL
menu:: Forums touch
trying to get the old drop-down:: Most Recent Topics
but browser crashes

Chrome on iPad

Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 7_1_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/45.0.2454.89 Mobile/11D257 Safari/9537.53

https://www.techspot.com/community/find-new/37589153/posts
menu:: Forums touch
Most Recent Topics
pick anything=>full display
return using menu:: Forums touch
but browser crashes

 

[Julio Franco]

But why old Safari? My old iPad is running iOS 9 and Safari browser 9. No crashes.

 

[DelJo63]

Very likely, but just like we still see Win98se, Vista, XP, Win8/9./10, the same is true for Apple products. The Desktop OS X 10.{4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11}* are still viable and the iOS {7,8,9}.* are too. I'm happy with the 7.1.2 reliability and it saves lots of storage space.

You may have heard; "If it ain't broke, don't fixit" :grin:

 

[DelJo63]

Btw: The 3rd party browser "Atomic Web" running in Privacy mode, UA string:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3

runs just fine on 7.1.2 accessing the paths originally shown above

 

[DelJo63]

One more factoid: the iPhone UA:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_1_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11D257 Safari/9537.53

crashes on the iPhone too, like also associated with OS 7_1_2

 

[DelJo63]

Hope you can take this in the spirit it is intended and not take it personally.
Try very hard to "not care" about any versioning. Instead spoof the UA to determine as little as possible:

• Host {Mac, Linux, Windows} ... need this for javascript variations
  
• Device {Desktop, Tablet, Phone, (Kiosk?) } ... presentation controls
  
• Browser {Chrome, Edge, IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari} ... browser quirks

I would guess that running iOS 7.1.2 and having
Atomic Web succeed while Safari fails
is an example that some defaulted if then else is working wonderfully

Principle: KISS and Less is More