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I have an iPad 1 with latest software update. Whenever I use Safari, I can go to websites if I select them from the bookmarks menu or if I use the Google search and then select the website. Whenever I try to type in a URL however, I cannot get past the first letter. For example, if I'm trying to type in "www.apple.com" all that I can type is "w." The onscreen keyboard stops responding and the key I pressed remains highlighted. I cannot switch to another field in Safari or do anything. I can switch to other apps or escape to the home screen and the iPad works just fine. Only Safari has the issue. Safari will crash after approximately 30 seconds of being frozen. Safari will still show up in the program switcher if I double tap the Home button and if I select it opens to a BLANK page, not my normal home page. If I attempt to enter a URL, same problem. What is this?

Karen,
Thanks for trying this. As I mentioned, the MacBook Pro this iPad is synched to is out of commission at this point so I couldn't. Too bad we don't have detailed error reports on the iPad but as I mentioned before I think you're right about the bookmarks. They get searched for the 'auto-complete the URL' feature while you're typing and with a BUNCH of bookmarks I too believe Safari's either timing out and crashing or that perhaps Safari is running out of memory (wouldn't think this TOO likely though so I'm betting on the time out right now). Just curious if you don't mind as I can't check until I get the MacBook Pro back; how many bookmarks did you have when you were synching them? I'm curious to see if there's a limit like say 300 or 500 bookmarks and you crash? I'm going to submit this as a bug in the developer forum as well. I'll have to see if iOS 5 has this problem still as well.
Thanks again!

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