Mobile Safari’s multiple window interface is amazing, but it lacks the ability to explicitly open a link in a new window. Being a fan of tabbed browsing in desktop browsers, I find it irritating not to be able to leave the current window in place while I follow a link or two.

I don’t have a clever hack to force Safari to open a link in a new window, but I do have the next best thing: a javascript bookmarklet that opens the current page in a new window. This makes following a link in a new window possible, if a bit inelegant.

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