iPad Safari limited to 9 tabs
by Justin Horn on Feb 9th, 2010 @ 9:29 pm
Similar to the iPhone’s 8 tab limit, the iPad currently limits you to 9 tabs. So it seems not only are we missing background apps, they are also really limiting you on your browsing experience. My guess is Apple’s argument will be this is just for casual browsing and not meant to replace the computer or laptop where I’ve been known to have over 30 tabs open at one time.
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9 is plenty — I didn’t even know the iPhone has a maximum of 8. 30 tabs is not the norm, sounds like you’d be better off with a Win7 netbook, or MacBook Air.
Personally, I think the iPad will set the standard for this class of device; but not until the 2nd or 3rd generation. Without at least a front-facing camera, this first one will flop.
Yeah, I agree, 30 is definitely excessive. For the iPhone 8 is enough 99% of the time as I usually just pick it up, look up one thing and close it. Still, 9 just seems low to me for a device that supposed to be between an iPhone and MacBook.
I’m just a little bit disappointed on this. I use 32 tabs on my MBP. I guess that is just asking too much of this device. I wish the Air would get built-in 3G and the same data deal as the iPad.
Of course I still want the iPad for trips, coffee shop, and places where I would have no Wifi access.
as ipad has enough screen to host more stuff, the user should be able to close the pop up tab directly by one finger click and return to the original window. Hope they can deliver this as a safari software update in app store.
I usually have 7-8 Windows open, with large related collections of tabs open in two of them. My “AM commute” window has traffic in one tab and weather in a few locations in the other tabs. The window where I read email and RSS has at least 20 tabs open at all times, from links in emails or RSS articles, or from when I have to jump to the whole article from the RSS excerpt.
Why not get Atomic web browser instead? Unlimited tabbed browsing on the full version…
9 tabs is certainly not enough, the reason I found out about this limitation is because I opened up several tabs to browse and saw that older tabs had deleted themselves. 30 isn’t that much anyway, especially for someone doing research. There is no reason for such a small limit, if there must be one then it should be as big as possible
One of my friends once had 36 tabs open. Crazy hey?
I guess I am like a freak of nature for having around 80 tabs open at all times on my desktop.
I am struggling to keep my desktop browser tabs open under 500 (blush). 9 tab limit in iPad is really tough.
I often have 30-50 tabs open on the desktop so I also find the Ipad limit troublesome. If there is a real reason it must be kept that low, then there should be a warning of some sort before a tab is overwritten and/or the opportunity to choose which tab will be overwritten. Especially when you do not know whether or not clicking on a link on a current page will open a new window. I get very tired of having to count tabs to know if it’s safe to click or not.
A prompt warning you that it will close your previously opened tabs would be decent enough for this disgruntled PC user.