Yep, on IOS7. i actually got the device a day before it was officially out. to be honest, i'm using it for all my liner-web-browsing despite all the shortcommings, because the screen is that awesome.

you were right on the newstand thing. moved to the garbage folder.

Now the multitasking, all i've described is on IOS7.

The page refresh happens when reading hacker news, so i'm not sure it's a memory issue. It's just bad user experience based on some dumb assumption at design time probably.