Manipulating Multiple Pages
Like any self-respecting browser, Safari can keep multiple pages open at once, making it easy for you to switch among them. You can think of it as a miniature version of tabbed browsing, a feature of browsers like Safari Senior, Firefox, and the latest Internet Explorer. Tabbed browsing keeps a bunch of Web pages open simultaneously—in a single, neat window.
The beauty of this arrangement is that you can start reading one Web page while the others load into their own tabs in the background.
On the iPhone, it works like this:
To open a new window, tap the
button in the lower right. The Web page shrinks into a mini
version. Tap New Page to open a new, untitled Web-browser tab; now you can enter an
address, use a bookmark, or whatever.Note
Alternatively, hold your finger down on a link instead of tapping it. You get a choice of three commands, one of which is Open in New Page. (The others are Open and Copy, meaning copy the URL.)
Sometimes, Safari sprouts a new window automatically when you click a link. That's because the link you tapped is programmed to open a new window. To return to the original window, read on.
To switch back to the first window, tap
again. Now there are two dots (• •) beneath the miniature page,
indicating that two windows are open. (The boldest, ...
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