Tabbed browsing
A quick reminder about Atomic Web Browser. My habit when web-surfing is to visit a site (TUAW, Google News, whatever), and open all interesting links in a new tab, while reading the main page; then I can go to those other tabs to follow the links I opened.
This works fine in Safari on my iMac, but on the iPad two problems occur. First there’s no “open in background”, the “open in new page” works but takes your view to that page. You have to tap the “pages” icon, and then tap your original page to get back to it. But quite often, the original page has been lost and must be loaded again – not a big enough memory buffer in iPad Safari perhaps.
In Atomic Web Browser, this is not true; instead there’s an “open in background” option, and the background tabs all seem to load successfully without running out of memory. Much better! Now you can read the page, then switch tab by tab to your other links, all of which are loaded and ready to view:
Atomic Web Browser is not yet perfect; sometimes tap/hold to get the “open in background” menu to appear, does not work; and more often than Safari, the App will crash sometimes – it just latches up for a long time (even exiting / re-running the App does not clear the lock-up, only waiting a longer time works). And there’s also the iPad issue that Safari remains the default, so links (from the App store, iBooks, etc) all open Safari, not Atomic.