Some call Mobile Safari the hidden gem of iOS, but the exclusive iOS 
features are still not significant enough to make this browser as 
popular as competitors Mozilla and Google Chrome. And it's not just the 
popularity or familiarity users have developed with Firefox and Chrome 
that are making a lot of people considering the removal of Mobile Safari
 as their default browser on iPhone or iPad. More often than not, users 
experience bugs with Mobile Safari that aren't just causing panic among 
novice users but are also ruining the web browsing experience on a sleek
 device such as iPhone 5 or the new iPad.
Some of the following 
bugs (all of them reported by users) might not apply for current iOS and
 Mobile Safari versions, since with each new firmware release, Apple 
rolls out an improved browser. However, the following is a list of some 
of the most common Mobile Safari bug reports filed by users. Some of 
them attempted to fix the bugs themselves, but the recommended solution 
is to make sure you are using a fix released by a source with proven 
knowledge of Apple software errors.
Overflow scroll breaks on visibility toggle
With
 iOS 5, Apple introduced scrolling within an element, without the need 
to use Javascript iScroll. However, the solution hasn't fixed the bug 
completely, as fixed elements don't scroll when the overall 
file/document is scrolled partway down. The next Apple fix for this bug 
was to have users add CSS code: "-webkit-overflow-scrolling:touch". 
Users say it works pretty well, but it still isn't a complete fix.
Javascript scrolling breaks touch events on position-fixed objects
This is one of the weirdest bugs users have reported about Mobile
 Safari. Buttons placed on the right edge of a screen for page up and 
page down functions worked only the first time. The second time users 
would use those buttons, they'd stop working. William Barnes, one of the
 users that have reported this explains: “if I just scrolled down 100px,
 the button would stop working, but if I then touched a spot 100px above
 the button, it would register”.
Spinning loading indicator
The rollout of iOS 6 brought quite a list of bugs that several 
sources have attributed to Mobile Safari. TechCrunch has reported a 
continuous spinning loading indicator, a bug that hints the UX has 
suffered degradation during the activation of an AJAX request. This 
means that any realtime app is subjected to the spinning loading 
indicator bug. The bug existed before iOS 6, but the new firmware made 
its fix useless. No workaround is currently known for this bug.
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