Here is a follow up on my "quality time" with the browser.
Like most, I received 16.1.1 last Friday night, and 16.2 Wednesday night.
Long story short, the browser is again usable for me. Not perfect, still need some workaround now and then, but what a difference.
- it's way faster in loading pages. Either on 3G or Wifi. With the sketchpad in background, it's arguably "fast".
- it's solid. It did not stall/block any more, and no reboot required at any time to unblock it. Each time a site would seem to fail (e.g. Waze often), entering some keyword in the address bar to trigger the Google search has worked every time so far to move away from the apparently crashed site.
- it is still capricious when it comes to sites needing GPS location. Sites needing location prompt the browser for user approval. Not always and even if it prompts and you grant it, it may still fail to load the site. So still some conditions creating issue when the location is required.
- it still benefits a lot from "disabling" the navigation, using the Sketch pad trick. So if I want to browse sites, I open first the sketchpad. If it is just to have Waze assisting my drive, no need for the sketchpad.
So excellent progress, as I can again use Waze, even on 1h drives with nav, it does not crash anymore.
Good job Tesla team, thanks.