Can you open more than 1 browser?

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It's not tabbed browsing.

You can have multiple windows, thumbnails of which can be viewed by tapping the button on the toolbar. Tabbed browsing is where all your pages are collected along the top of the window like the dividers of a folder. A single tap on a tab switches between windows.

That's not how Safari on the iPad
works.

^^^^ it's pretty much the same thing. Just takes up less screen real estate this way.

Really? Because you've been able to open multiple browser windows for years. Eventually they came out with "tabbed" browsing where you could keep multiple pages in the same window.

So no, they aren't pretty much the same thing.

I wouldn't equate it with simply having multiple browser windows open. That's quite an extreme. If that were the case, you'd have to click through a bunch of open windows that are piled up on top of each other to find the one you are looking for. In Safari on the iPad, you simply have to click one button, which shows you all of the windows (which could be thought of as tabs) for you to easily select.

Unfortunately, as Chupa Chupa has pointed out, the iPad is lacking in memory, and more than two or three of the windows/tabs won't stay cached at the same time. IMO, the lack of RAM is the iPad's greatest flaw. What, they couldn't spring for 512MB? What would that have done to the components cost- bring it up $5?

So IMO, they are pretty much the same thing, except that Safari for iPad's method doesn't take up browsing window real estate.

Unfortunately, your opinion happens to be wrong, as it is based upon a verifiable fact. It may not take up window real estate, but you also can't switch right to the page you want with a single tap.

Tabbed GUI

In this example, notice the tabs which can be clicked to immediately switch the contents on the window (as opposed to a button which shows a thumbnail view of all open pages):

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You can open multiple browser pages in Safari on the iPad, but it is not correct to say it has tabbed browsing.

LMAO... that was ridiculous.