Yeah, I've tried tha, Freddyt. No luck.

I've set my ipad to automatically update the OS. You always have to in the end, I've found, even if you hold off for an update or two. And most time Apple gets it right. (I'm more careful when it comes to Microsoft.)

I'm not sure how I'd go about following Dave.Ro's advice - don't know about any bookmarks editor on Safari. It might be they've removed that in this version, or hidden it somewhere. But I cleared all the history and website data, and that didn't help.

Since this only happens with Safari and not other browsers what I really need to do is delete Safari and reinstall it. That's what I'd do on a PC. But I don't know any way to do that.