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hey guys it's Jason Cipriani here with cnet how to today we're going to take a look at how to open links in the background in Mobile Safari on iOS 5 well use what iOS users have grown accustomed to over the years is when they hold tap and hold on a link they have an option to open it in in a new page so when you tap on open a new page it will open up a new tab for you load the page you just tap the link for well in iOS 5 you can open it in the background all you have to do is go into settings scroll down to Safari tap on open links change it to in background so now if we go back to Safari we tap and hold on the link you'll see open and background once I tap on that you'll see a nifty little animation the number of tabs I have open are now at two and once I tap on that and go this page will be loading in the background what this does is it prevents you from having to leave the page you're currently on for example if you're reading an article and it links to something else that you don't want to go to right at that moment you could open a link in the background it comes in real handy if you read a lot of blog posts or like to have multiple tabs in multiple sessions going at the same time so that's how to open a link in the background on iOS 5 this work on any iOS device that's compatible with iOS 5 again just go into settings safari open links in background please join us over at how to cnet com for more great tech tips you