Comments on: iPad Safari limited to 9 tabs

By: orbfish

orbfish — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:40:31 +0000

I am struggling to keep my desktop browser tabs open under 500 (blush). 9 tab limit in iPad is really tough.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:11:36 +0000

I guess I am like a freak of nature for having around 80 tabs open at all times on my desktop.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 13:20:02 +0000

One of my friends once had 36 tabs open. Crazy hey?

By: Riddles

Riddles — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:51:04 +0000

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

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:33:28 +0000

Why not get Atomic web browser instead? Unlimited tabbed browsing on the full version…

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:31:24 +0000

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.

By: john

john — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:51:55 +0000

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.

By: Jazz1

Jazz1 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:55:59 +0000

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.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:06:55 +0000

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.

By: benjitek

benjitek — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:47:49 +0000

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.