Safari bug regarding "Website Data"

I've run into a bug with Safari on iOS 6 with my 4th generation iPad where performance noticeably degrades after a certain amount of time using Safari. It becomes noticeable when multiple tabs no longer hold their information so that when you go back to a tab it has to reload the site page data. This will occur even with just a two or three tabs. Another symptom, and the one that caught my attention first, is when scrolling up and down through pages images do not smoothly come into view but have to partially reload causing like a snapping movement as you scroll through images on the page. It's more noticeable the faster you scroll.
Those two symptoms seemed to point to a memory issue in Safari so I tried closing the app completely and restarting it with no success. I also tried restarting the iPad and still no success. All that was left that I could do was to try deleting "History" and "Cookies and Data" in Safari's settings. Again, no success. Then I went into "Advanced" on the same settings screen and under that option you have "Website Data" and the option to view and delete that data. So, I deleted all of it and shazam, success! Safari then worked smoothly with the fastest scrolling showing images and pages as they should when scrolling and many tabs then being able to be open without them being blanked out.
It's still apparently a memory issue though that is somehow tied into "Website Data," which is strange because that data is very tiny in size for all sites. The issue is not progressive in appearance as it activates randomly. In other words, one moment the browser is working just fine and then it isn't. It has nothing to do with how long you use Safari. It also doesn't have anything to do with the amount of "Website Data" but looks to be the data from specific sites since the bug will pop up with just a handful of site's in "Website Data" and at other times when there are a lot more sites listed.
Anyway, this bug has been reported to Apple Feedback and I just wanted to share it with the forum for others that are experiencing the same thing and have not been able to resolve the issue. The solution of deleting all "Website Data" is 100% repeatable and 100% resolves the issue. Safari performance is completely restored.

Just wanted to add that I have just reproduced the same issue when there was no "Website Data" stored. I closed Safari and then cleared history and cookies and data and it was back to normal, unlike the first time I encountered it when doing that did nothing until I deleted "Website Data." So there seems to be some connection in resolving the issue as "Website Data" may needs to deleted or empty to begin with before deleting history and cookies and data has any effect.
Again, it looks like some kind of memory issue affecting Safari that when doing the steps I described it releases memory in some way.

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