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Problem with Safari in iOS 11.0.1

Aerofly

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Hi guys, Iā€™m wondering if there is someone here who can furnish me with a solution to a really annoying problem thatā€™s been plaguing me over the last few days.
Iā€™m running iOS 11.0.1 on an iPad Air2 (128Gb), and when I try to open certain websites in Safari, they partially open, with the blue ā€˜load lineā€™ reaching around halfway, before stopping and failing to load with eventually the message ā€œThere was a problem loading this pageā€. The same websites load perfectly when using Chrome or Firefox with no problems.
Iā€™ve tried resetting the Safari cache, no better, Iā€™ve ā€˜hard resetā€™ the iPad, still no joy. I turned off ā€˜background app refreshā€, again no better, and Iā€™ve even closed all of the open apps, nada!.
After pulling out several chunks of what little hair I have left, and as a last resort, I turned off JavaScript in Safari. ā€˜Voilaā€™, all websites now work again in Safari!!!.
Turn on JavaScript again, and they all fail?.

One thing I have noticed is that the majority of the problem website are either forums or sites that require a login.

Has anyone any idea what I may have done to make JavaScript hate Safari so much?, and is there anything I can do to make them friends again?.

Steve
 

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Things I would try.

Try turning off ā€˜Prevent Cross Site Trackingā€™.

You can also try ā€˜Clear History and Wegsite Dataā€™. Sometimes the stored data for a website can cause problems. Youā€™ll need to re-log into all the you sites that usually remember you.
 
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Thanks, I'm just downloading iOS 11.0.2 as we speak, not sure that will do anything though. When that's done I'll give your suggestions a try.
 
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Well, Iā€™ve just downloaded iOS 11.0.2, and not changed any settings, and all is working as normal!!!!!
Of course I didnā€™t bother to look at what the update included, it must have changed something, any idea where that info would be?

Steve
 

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Another user was having similar problems, so it could have been a bug. Doing an update tends to reset a lot of catches and otehr stuff too, so thatā€™s also a possibility. Either way, Iā€™m glad itā€™s working for you again.
 

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