As with the rest of PlayBook's interface, there's a bezel gesture: Drag down from the top to reveal and flick
among open tabs, add a new tab, check the limited browser options, and go to the Downloads screen.
Not exact matches
We all have that colleague who has a couple dozen
tabs open in their web browser at any given time, letting them pile up and shrink smaller until it's difficult to distinguish
among them.
If you activate a context menu on a link, you'll have,
among other options, the option to
open that link in a new
tab.
(I'd also add we
open them in new
tabs, save them to our Notes app, email them to ourselves, Instapaper their links, or create private Twitter Moments or Storify collections,
among other things.)
I was able to stream two 1080p videos from YouTube simultaneously and switch
among 40
open tabs in Chrome without experiencing any hint of lag.
I wish it allowed me to
open tabs and switch
among various locations with a click, but if wishes were horses, then hackers would ride.
One of the advantages of choosing the latter is that you can sync settings across Windows 8 devices, your lock screen, wallpaper, Internet Explorer
open tabs and history, color scheme,
among a few others, but not your tiles, which would have been ideal.
Chromebooks don't run our Windows - based performance benchmarks, but we had no complaints with the Flex 11's multitasking: We easily
opened and switched
among more than a dozen
tabs, including video playback sessions, without hesitation, although we were able to force some stumbling and stuttering by playing three 4K videos at once.