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TUAW Tip: Open more than 8 windows at once in iPhone Safari
Reader John Tokash wrote in with this tip that shows how to open more than 8 windows at once in iPhone Safari. Here's how it works: After opening 8 windows, quit Safari. To do this, press and hold Home for 4-8 seconds until Safari quits and you return to your home screen. Next, tap on Weather, wait for the screen to load and tap on the Y! icon at the bottom left. This opens a new screen in Safari. Repeat the quit-Weather-Y! sequence as desired. Downside? The dot navigation at the bottom of the Safari screen no longer works but you can still scroll through all open windows.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
mingistech said 2:26PM on 8-26-2007
The best part of this tip is... I didn't know that clicking the Y! in the Weather Widget brought up a local city info page for the city selected.
The worst part of this tip is the pointless trick of having more than 8 Safari windows open at once.
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Jeff said 4:30PM on 8-26-2007
Agreed. This "tip" is no shortcut, that's for sure. Not worth the effort, I'm afraid.
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Gar said 4:47PM on 8-26-2007
A true waste... until you need to have more than 8 browser windows open. Then you will thank Erica for the simple tip.
What this doesn't help with though is having browser windows open that want to open a new additional window when you have 8+ active... those launch attempts still see the eight window limit so 'nothing solved' in that situation.
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Joseph said 7:34PM on 8-26-2007
who knows, it might come in handy one day...thanks for the tip.
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Reg Muffet said 7:38PM on 8-26-2007
Probably the extra memory footprint would be counter-productive for full-blown web pages.
Though I can imagine some uses: if you had a bunch of little web pages with JavaScript calculators on them, eg, a tip calculator, currency converter, GPS coords to latitude longitude degrees decimal (for cross referencing your GPS to Google Maps of course), etc, etc, x8+.
You could have all these little calculators open and just flick between them, weather widget like. Especially useful if you were travelling (as the above examples suggest) and didn't want to continually have to access the net to load new pages again.
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