In iOS 5 the iPad’s Safari browser no longer shows a separate view with thumbnails for each page currently open, as it did in previous iOS versions. Instead Safari now uses tabbed browsing, which has been popular for some time on desktop browsers and even several alternative browsers for the iPad.
Judging by the comments on my first post about tabbed browsing in iOS 5, there are a number of you who hate this change in Safar, hate tabbed browsing.
I like tabbed browsing a lot. I‘m always running a crazy number of open tabs in Chrome on my MacBook Pro, and I generally have quite a few open on the iPad 2 as well.
So now I’m a little curious about how all of you feel about the change to tabbed browsing in Safari. Do you love it or hate it? Or not too fussed either way? Would you like to see an option to choose to turn tabbed browsing on or off? (I have no idea how viable or not that would be, but just for wish list sake here)
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I hate tabs.
I would like back thumbnail view , why not the option to turn off tabbed browsing?
Severely dislike. The tabbed browser kills the full screen look. It also seems like a sell out to all the recent pc users who have switched. I liked being fully emerged in he page and do not understand why Apple doesn’t make it an option.
If you don’t like the tabs, download the Atomic Web browser. You can set homepage, no tabs and also have it recognized as a full desktop browser instead of a mobile device. You will love it!
Thumbnails, please please.
And this is why I liken apple to communist china, “you no like change…tuff!, you do as your told and take what we give you” (for a very large fee)
At least make it an option apple!!!!!
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